The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-23

No Power Being Able 20 Drive
Her From the Feet Of Her God.
dess.
Chicago rnss.
That woman Is endowed with . natu.
raj penehant for outward adornment no
one will doubt who has visited our dry.
goods emporiums during the past few
days. All other duties save the duty Of
shopping, she has deemed It incumbent
upon herself TO forego. She has had am.
pie excuse for letting this thing and that
" lie over p for the time being, bot The
bit Of new ribbon she found absolutely
essential TO life, or, at least TO the pretty
summsr toilet which is about the same
thing. She has felt perfectly justified in
risking life for the sake Of geW.gaw
when she did no; feel called upon to per.
form the most trifipg Of home duties.
She has suellered on our streets, sufo-
Gated in our streetcars, and labored IN
our shops, irritAted herself and irrita-
ting the perspiripg victim behind the
counter, when shs considered it entirely
out Of the question TO set things TO right
in her own house. She has experienced
the trickling rivnlets Of preparation
with an equanimity truly admirable,
brayely endesyoripg TO appear as though
she thought all was right when she knew
all was wrong. butat The same time rails.
ed strife at home simply because it was
"too hot to make a Ere" and so engen-
dsred bitterness in the family circle
through starvation. In truth, ninety FIVE
10 the shade has been delectable justi.
6ca,ion for taking life easy with the one
exception. The warning Of the fatalities
Of The week has been effective save In
the one thing. Verify it has been hot,
exceedingly hot, but the woman has shop
ped all the same, As every dry-goods nler-
chant will testify; and oh. how those dry
goods merchants have catered 10
their victims. With fendish shreWd-
ness and an exquisite taste they have un-
vailed such visions Of beauty that powder
washed of, frirties nowhere, and all the
other accom- paninents Of q boss sum.
mer day we're wiped out. With the d.,
play OF laces and lawns, and ribbons and
flowers, and the many other parapher-
MALTA OF the summer toilet, these minor
matters we're literally forgotten. What
= sir they would have created under any
other circumstances. What abused crea-
lures the came parties would have con-
.idered themselves had the powder van
ished, and the locks Strengthened over the
preparation Of dinner necessary 10 the
home happiness. To the majority Of wo-
men the idea Of doing anything in such
weather Is simply preposterous, and yet
these same women will suffer the pAngs
Of The martyr atlhe stake rather than
Iorego the triAss that tend 10 make her
attractive. She il never too warm TO at
tend 70 even the miputest details OF the
toilet The clusters Of snowy costumes
gathered upon our door.tteps these sum.
mer evenings throw out no suggestion,
save that Of calmness and coolness, and
vet these costumes have seen the dog
tai. If what had preceded he going down
Of the sun and the creeping in Of the eve
ming quiet that would rapidly put TO rout
all Visions Of things angelic. Such GUS
toms have not been waited direct from
heaven. They have suffered an earthly
experiences far from enyiAble. They have
beheld their wearers in conditions far diff
fsrent to that in which the moonlightfalls
upon them; they have felt the energy 81
the little hand. folded Plseidly upon their
vhiteness As bits Of obstreporous ribbon
we're apgrily tsitehed into place, and in
fact could tell story that would be sadly
detrimental to visions Of celestial sbodes,
DC,