The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-15

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Darlington IaWkeye.
"NeIthcr should suspendcrs be worn by people vii
respect themselves IGarTer's laEar.
This brief mandate from that great oracl
and autocrat Of fashion in America, Hn
pcr's Bdsar, we find in that excellent house
hold journal OF November, ms first pag
article on Paris fashions, Of which tn
opening paragraph is devoted to the fash
ions for our own sterner but not less use
FIJI sex.
We are very reluctant to oppose an.
mandate OF the Bdldr made within its owl
proper jurisdiction. But We feel that
has touched upon q point that will inter
est every man who loves his country an
his clothes, when it assails the suspendeI
We combat the position OF the Bazaar OIL
this point, not from the love OF contro
versy, but because We feel it to DO u duty
Our highly cultured andeminently retine'
contemporary may perpiex US with tn
mysteries OF chenille fringe, repped silks
Breton lace and Vatican p~olonaise, bu
when 1t enters the domain OF the suspen
der, mankind energies from the obscurit!
OF ignorance into the bright white light o
intelligence and experience, and deties tn
arm OF the tyrant.
Throw away our suspendersl Are wctC
understand, then, that the men OF tn,
fashionable world, that men Of culture, re
inement andeduc1tion, the merchant, th'
artist and the poet, are 10 cast away the
fundamental article OF their confederate
%apparcl, the one that holds the others II
I the bondsof union, and Substitute therefor
the humber strapof the second hand! Are
the men who carry this country in theil
brains, the men who fill the capitol will
the thunders OF their %eloquence, to break
and mar tho effect OF their finest periods
BY pausingtO 70" hitch" their unstable waist
bands, after the highly effective manner
OF the dramatic sailor? What, shall We,
who have added the weight OF IL voices
and influence to mid the struggles OF that
heroic band Of women who q few short
wears ago entered upon n glorious crusade
TO compel all women who respected health
and beauty to Suspend from the should
ers," shalI wc desert them in the very
moment OF victory? shall we, IN servile
obedience to the command OF fashion, now
throw away the auxiliary articleof raiment
that was the bond OF unity between the
dress refor1ners and ourselves, and laugh
those our noble coadjutators to scorn,
while we buckle n skate-strap around our
recreant waists? Forbid 1t, heaven. Or,
still moro potent in these matters, forbid
it, good Bdzdr.
II the suspender is, on short notice, SUM
marily abolished, think, think ofthe sup.
..u.a,,, t,,v,1ouu atuINnn1nH bnitnnl thai
would find their way into the contribution
baskets every Sunday morning and would
work into circulation as fiat money IN tho
benighted realms OF paganism. Think OF
the complication in our home mercantile
circles that would result from such clrcnla-
ton. Think what wOuld be the feeling be-
tween this country and Bnrmail, when al
up country bunk OF that pagan region
should present 1865 suspender but
tons, bearing the imprint ''R. NJ. Raab &
Bro.,n to that firm for redemption in
standard coin, the pagan bank having re-
cciyed them OH deposit from its Christian
convert customers, who'had receUed them
from American Sunday school boxes. The
suspender cannot he abolished. We all
know the agony ofthe man at the evening
party or ut the sociable when II suspend
err button, only one out OF six, gives way
what torments, then, would he not suffer
IL the Boar, with its iconoclastic hand
should reach down and tear the whole
fabric OF suspeniers from his broad should
ers?
Suspcndcs arc intimately connected
with the progress OF mankind i'll the arts
the sciences, religious liberty and free
education. Where men wear s%uspendcrt
education is liberal, religion is prosperous
and progressive, and the arts OF peace
flourish. Where. men do not wear sus'
penders, as IN Central Africa and Pata'
ronia, dense, a%ll.pcrvading Ignorance rules
the hour, and degrading superstition and
destroying vice fills the land. The Ming
of tho Cannibal Islands never saw Il suE'
pcnder. Are we then to throw away this
article Of enlightened and progressive raj
ment, and ~rctrograde into the Girdle and
darkness OF harDarism? The best men o.
every agc and cline have worn suspen'
dcrs. or their equivalent. They at least
suspended their robes from the shoulder
II we Danish the suspcndcr then we must
abolish the~-er--ha-er nm-thG Qua gar
menture which they sustain, The hardy
Highlanders, breathing the air Of freedom
and their hearts %tbrobbing with love o.
country, wore no srspenders, but neither
did they wear any OF the apurtenances
thereto appertaining. Tlip. Roman, leg,
ions were without tho light anu aid
OF the suspcnder, and so they dress
ed from the shoulders down. They
could never have overrun the world and
made broad tie stretching boundaries oil
their mighty empire. il they had been
compelled o halt In the midst ofsweeping
pursuit or overwhelming charge 70 rear;
range their raiment with the nautical
Glitch" Socrates suspended his flowing
robes from the shoulder. So did Venus,
whose girdle was only for style. The An,
koond OF Swat wore them. President
HAYES wears %suspendcrs. SO does Secrc'
tary Eyarts. Wilhelmj wears them: Jos
epI Cook wears the Argosy suspenler; SO
does r. N. Washburn and General Grant
Edwin Booth wears ~suspenders. Mr.. iiuX'
lev wears them. On tho otler liand, SIT
Ting Bull does not wear them, .ppHnls
Kearnoy iastens his--hc fastens them W
with a strap, Tho Sultan ties his with
Irvine string. The Jan!oS brothers wore
straps. and filled them with TeVolyers to
make them tight enough. The wild man
OF Borneo never had q %slspender onin ms
life.
Let u.s., then, unto with tho good men
who have worn and still wear suspenders
and protest against their abolition BY. TN
heartlcss edict OF fashion. We war; sus
ipender.makers and the manufacturers 0
experimentation against this blow which
the dealers in ~skatc-straps have made a
their business. We call upon all men VIII
have to work with both hands at q tlme.rtf
Stand bv the only article OF raimont tia
will permit them TODD this with any sor'
Of comfort and in any degree OF secnrlty
Tng st. Louis bar association is invcsti
eating the abuses charged against thu
present Jury system, with u view to devils
some means by which honest AMI iRtelli
cont men can be secured for jury service
4 report on the subject has already beer
made by o committee appointed for III
purpose hut It is not believed that thu