The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-11-25

MES eacn count separately anu
collectively.
For the Palladium.
A gossip At n Spiritual Meeting
There is q chance to show a
species of wit in the ridicule of a
subject of which one is profoundly
ignorant even of its commonest
principles; but to thinking people,
such arrows of wit are but 30
many arrows pointing to ignorance.
Wit may also be shown in the rid
icule of the personal appearances
of a religious congregation, especi
ally if they are not orthodox. For
instance, 'Indiana's gifted poetess, ]
in speaking of the Spiritualist' s
Yearly Meeting in this city says:
II found a snug audience, in the
Hall, q peculiar audience. I might
say There was a predominance of
bald heads and thin faces among
the men, and thoughtful and angu
lar physiques among the women.
Long hair on the men and short
hair on the women. Upon the
stage were seated three men and
one woman. The men were com
Portable and confident in appear
ance, the woman was mo longer
young" and seemed to be in state
going into clairvoyant condition.
One of the men sang from green
book curious song, the burden of
which was that everybody was ex
pected under all circumstances to
come out strong, and do all the
good that they could do There
were something less than serenity
five verses, each with like salts
factory ending
This was published in the Tele
gram, ''high toned moral paper"
We ask the editor of the ''largest
sheet in Eastern Indiana" if this
vulgar criticism had been on an
orthodox congregation, would it
have been admitted into his col
umns to.be read by his intellectual
class of readers?' We ask the
poetess, would she have made
"bald heads and thin faces the
target to fire her arrows of wit
against, had the audience been
Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker,
or, in fact, had it been any orthodox
assemblage? Long hair upon the
men and short hair upon the
women" is also stone upon which
she has whetted her pen. Let
me remark right here, by way OF
parenthesis, that the longest hair
we saw on any mans head in that
audience, was on the head of a
member of the Episcopal church
| So far as ''short hair on the
women" is concerned we can't say
who does or does not possess it
perhaps the poetess is the best
authority in such matters. for ladies
doubtless have better opportunities
for observing whether woman &
hair is short or long; but when they
make their appearance in public
I will venture to say that there are
few men who would hazard al
opinion on the matter, owing tc
the abundance of false hair in the
market! Because the lady on the
stage was mo longer young
seems to be a matter detrimental
to her character in the eyes of the
critic. 1 suppose she cannot helI
her age; though she does not try
to disguise it by any of the arts o
the fashionable. Speaking still O.
the lady, the critic says: She "pro
ceeded to pour forth an invocation
from the 'shadoway land through
the aid of some awfully dead poet
whose grammar was worse than hi
ideas" Now, then, poets from thu
earliest times, have been remark
able for their unjust criticism o
each other, and we wonder hoy
much the ''glass of self admiration
combined with prejudice has {
do with these thingsl
No doubt it sounded curious t
hear song in a religious meeting
"the burden of which was" I'd
all the good that they could do;
but as we were too late to hear tn
song, we don't doubt the assertio
in regard to the seventy fv
verses" nor the satisfactory enc
ing Of the same. :
1.-THE many miserable fraud
which are being exposed dali
among these great test medium.
and 'materialistic' souls. is proc
enough that they are not maxim
the progress which they hoped
make. It is high time that 'dar
cabinets, laying on of hands an