Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-09-16
gHc Ex.ravagaMce Hs women.

Tho London THHPS, in Il careful article on the |
condition of English society," touches upon one
topic with criticism which applies very forci-
big to American society, or, at least, to that
part of American society which is TO be found
in the larger Towns and cities OF tho uhitea
States.
Tho Times gays it must always be with pain
and decacy and hesitation that it makes any
allueion to tloSo who arc supposed 70 he iess
abIc to dofond themselves, and the more
under just authority, AZ well, it must be added,
as also tho most siilnod aSAlEat Inv one It.
mark must be maGo.
| Evon on the most superficial survey oil society,
whether in tho great fnrnace OF tho motropohs
or in the lesser fires of provincial and rural ne,
| WHO can shut his ewes to tho lRmehtable tact
| that the gcntlcr and kindlier sex have u very
| Great deaf to do with that boundlesa a1id rum
| Uua extravaganza which introduces all the wees
| and asables all tho virtues, oven TO decay ana
| extinction? II may bc the necessity or the DUTY
| of so,De to spend pripcely fortunes i'll pIincciy
pump and luxury If so, they are only To DO
pitiad for tho difficulty OF doing 1t gracefully,
and redcemng material waste with personal ro-
| liucment. But in this great town and III each
season more tlian the last, thera arc thousands
and thousands who are manliostly spending iaf
moro than thoir circumstances wall allow.
For very much of this deep, widespread, and
still spreading evil the women are alHweiaole.
1t il they who dress ut ratio far beyond their
income they who insist on the best houses IN
the ncigllhnIhCod; they Who must nave eQn-
pn.cg for all usea, times aud places they VINO
cannct abato theirmanifold requirements eYon
whom the family increases aht! hooler care
should take the place of childish things.
OF course tho mon htve tiieir besettiug sihs
and their pot cXtrnyagancos, sometimes very
| CT sty and they have often the still greater
fault OF not explaining thair peeunary ahalrs to
their wives with manly canior tr coInmon bust
npss-hke accuracy Ihgy do not make tho wife
, q c0nEdaut and fellow counsellor. But there
cannot be doubt that in tho groHt majority OF
iouFCB tho lady linuwa qnite enough TO soc, w'ti
Al very l,ttlG reelection, that she ~ driving hei
husband and family into stlaitness and enbar
rasaIneut, with tho rick of ruin.
, People must have many and very good arfee,
or very good inYoatments indeed, 10 be abo to
spend often the rental Of good estate in single
entertainment, 81 dress makersor an llptnlster
| er's BILL a house at u fashionable watering place
!, | n prolonged continental tour, Il necklace, o.
y sornc other toy. Yet women are such creature!
!, | of rivalry and display that they cannot heip
! sort of triumph over those who arc less f0Ftu
nate or less spirited, and so arc continually th'
/, foremost to utl0mo peTniciOnS nVIlfy. Mha
"a can their husbands do? They Submit, perlfpi
q ,phoy sulk perhaps They more commonly cas-
- about for ways and means, and, as they hear AM
n learn more thoy arc more apt to take caun5e
a, from despair, and give themselves mp TO I'll
~ stream ia which thoy are already l1anHS help
l. icsrly ~
Ia They cannut he wOrsn thsn they arc they ma
H. be bettor. So they speculate--tha5 is,thev gam
H. bic. They soon lind they are victims, ana set
down TO their simplicity OF their seIuFioS. j
-, and by they make tho discovery that in such q
~ affair it is better to be at the heal than at t
H. tail better to be on tho right ride OF the wall
il, better to be in the ring than an outriuet.
Il they press inward, give and take confidence, al
~ in time are nilliouarcs, or bankrupt aud exile