The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-23


diamonds of industry; your girdle be sim
plicity, with the tassels of good humor
let your thicker garb be virtue, and YOU
drapery politeness; let your shoes be wis
dom, secured by the buckles Of persever
'ance." 1896 W Tssp.-i
All as fine ss fiddle; but happen To
know that two or three years afterwsrd
that curly haired, bright-eyel little mis-.
blossomed into merryi young ladyhood
and went to q distant town to pay visit
to her married sister, and took with her,
besides her girdle of simplicity and her
garb of vistue, twelve solid gowns Of
ruffled cambria and embroidered cam.
brio and lilac Grape and pearl Grape and
green silk, and ornamented shoes in col
fors to match, and silk stockings with
wrought clocks to match, and embroid-
cred petticoats, and silk pelisses, and l
know not what of youthful fnery. The
good minister, loved 10 his latest day, no
doubt thought he was implanting high
principles in the mind of his young
charge; and so he was, and they bore
fruit through long life on earth, and
are doubtless poisoning this day IN the
world beyond the skies; but, all the same
the little lady hurried away from her la
porous copying out of her wise shoes and
persevering shoe. buckles, to embroider
another star in her cambria shirt and put
another quirk into the silk Grape. Thus
1t ALWAYS was, and thus will be evermore,
and thus it is right it should be. The
love of dress is. innate, immanent, in the
female heart, and is absolutely innocent,
is charm and not frailty; is u talent
and not drawback,
Come up now, clergymen, well-be-
loved, reverends of high and low degree,
and let US slight it out. The woman
world has borne with you long enough.
almost counting your ignorance unto.you
for righteousnessand bearing your path
etic, laundering, wellmeaning argument
lings patiently, as Q mother bears the
tiny passion of her little ones But, in
the great world of real things, it is pity
YOU should longer waste time ana
strength in combating shadows. So,
come now and let US reason together.
And bring out first your trump card,
if YOU like. II will therefore" says our
beloved brother Paul, ..''that wo men
adorn themselves in modest APPAREL, With
shamefacedness and sobriety; not with
braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly
array, but.........with, good works
Aud Saint Peter backs him up hand
somely, as becometh saints: Whose
adjoining, let it not be that outward
adjoining of plating the hair, and of
wearing of gold, or of putting on of ap-
pare; but let it be.........the ornament
of u meek and quiet spirit, which is in
the sight of God of great price. For
after this manner in the old time the
holy woman also, who trusted in god
adorned themselves"
What do they mean? does Paul or
Peter take upon himself to say that a
woman sholl not wear French twist, or
a gold chain, or pearl ring, or silk
gown? / think not The holy women
to whom Peter refers as an example
certainly had no scTuples on this subject,
but made themselves look as handsome
as possible. When Abraham sent out
his eldest and most trusted servant to Sc
lect wife for his son, he sent him loaded
with such trinkets as New York girl,
to say nothing of our village maidens,
would delight in. And at the very first
SIGHT of the young lady, before he know
who she was, he brought out golden
earring of half shekel weigh and two
bracelets for her hands of len shekels
weight. of gold. And when he found
that he was really to have the girl, he
fairly dubbed over with gratitude and
finery. He brought forth jewels Of sill
yer aud Jewels of gold, and raiment and
gave them to REBEKAH: he gave also to
her brother and to her mother precious
things Certainly these holy women
showed no backwardness about adjoining
themselves in holiday gare.
When the Israelitcs took "French
leave every woman was directed by the
Lord, says the narrator of the Penta-
touch, to borrow of her neighbor and Of
her that sojourued in her house jewels of
silver and jewels of gold, and raimett,
and to put them upon their sons and up
on their daughters. PETER and PAUL
knew this as well as We know it-prcb-
ably better than a good many OF us know
it; and it is not at all likely that they
would set themselves up rs censors of the
Most High, as rebuking style OF dress
which was not only approved, but pre-
scribed by an authority which they, at
least, recognized as divine.
DAVID, held IN highest honor by Pc
TER and PAUL, IN that beautiful love-
song to the Chief Musician upon Shos-
hsnnin, glorities the beauty of beautiful
dresses; "King's daughters were among
the honorable women upon the right
hand did stand the queen in gold OF
Ophir ..;...... The kings daughter is all
glorious within her clothing is OF
wrought gold. She shall be brought
unto the king in raiment OF needle-work.'
Ind | suppose that with or without all
our sewing machinery and our devices,
we never have been able to produce
needle-work to be compared with the ell
aborate and lustrious magniicence OF
the needle-work that David was talking
about. Our embroiderlng and knife
pleating are but coarse numbering OF
the ground, over against the fairy splen-
dor that blooms under Eastern fingers.
One of the proverbs Of SOLOMON, cop
led out by the clerks ofH EzEKIAH, King
of Judah-which PETER and PAUL
could not fail to consider good authority
was. "As an earring of gold, aud an
ornament of fine gold, So is wise re-
proven upon an obedient ear" Certainly
SOLOMON did not mean to compare Wis
reprover to something wrong, frivolous
and unworthy, but to something vale
liable.
But, says IsAIAH-and here we seem
to have no Quaker gun-"The Lord will
take away the bravery of their tinkling
ornaments about their feet (the feet of
the daughters of Zion). land their cau!s