The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-03-13
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ReIIglon Versus Dress.

ueCH lCCtuTlHg llc lHClllHHN 'H"ltHVH
especially the lades--about extravaganza
in dress and other church frippery. The
ground taken by this dress relormcr is
that a great many poor women are kept
away from church worship because they
cannot appear so grandly attircd ms some
of their acquaintance whose criticisms
they do not care to encounter, After one
Of these lectures the ladies 0f the cOngrc-
cation gathered ingronps and consulted
somewhat llippMtly about some needed
reformation in the matter Of gcw-gaws.
They all thought that yo@s reformation
was needed to encourage their poorer
sisters to attend to their religious duties
But one could not dispense with her ear
rings, inasmuch as there was glaring
deficiency in the make up Of her face,
and another could not forego bracelets as
her wrists were beautifully round and
fair, and bracelets only hcightcnd their
charms. And as for bonncts and feathers,
why what Ia woman without bonnets
and feathers? Simply nothing. AS
well bird pluckcd Of its plumage-only
fit for cOoking." So the ladies could not
arrange among themselves what they
could sacrifice for the benefit Of their
poor sisters. 1t was therefore necessary
for Miss Smiley to talk to them again.
And this she did. The result was, Us she
says, that on the next Sunday "in one
church ut least there was very little
jewClry and a wonderful vanishing oi
tall feathers"
Miss Smiley Is, We believe, plain
Quaker lady. Dress il a very important
matter in the regulations Of her religious
sect. While We cannot adopt her views
as u whole, we acknowledge that there is
much in them that demands public nttcn-
ton. There is real necessity for women
like her to lift up their voices and protest
against the iooli-hnrss and extravaganza
Of fashionable female dressing. The
sharpcst pens Of newspaper caricOturists
have been welded in vain against the
tendencies to folly in thi' direction,
Fashion is apparently more powerful
than caricaturc when once the passion for
dressing a Ia mode has taken possession of
the female mind. This characteristic is
not peculiar to this age Of the world by
any means. II has always been so. We
read in history that the ladies oi the
court Of Richard, the llunchback, were
willing to mount bnstlcs on their backs
out Of subsCrvienry to the sovereign, and
thus puta hunch on half the back Of the
English people. No sceptrc ia welded
with half the tyranny nor with anything
like the folly Of the sccptrc Of fashion.
Some one has said that no doubt ii Pc.
trarCh had only handed down to modern
society the way Laura trimmed her c'c-
brOws, no doubt some Of the fair BLONDES
whose sunny locks have been their pride,
and who find with dismay that the tingc
that once made them so Young and charm
ing il being replaced by the mature ash.
brown n shade with no prestige or at,
traction, would at once catch at the fash
ion aud improve on the recipe by acting
on Lady Mary Montaguc's advice, which
was to soak their trcsses and faces in
dilute mnriatic acid for two weeks. In
connection with this recipe We have seen
1t sagcly remarked that typhoid fever
was more preferable ms means Of clear
ing the complexion, being less dangerous
and more elective.
AZ we remarked above, it has never
made any noticeable difference what the
caricniurists Of any age Of the world have
said in regard to the folly Of any particll'
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