The Portland daily press., 1881-10-12
Incorporate Shopping.
New York Iines.l

The awful preyalencs Of tire vice OF shopping
among women is one OF thos- signs OF the times
which lead the thoughtful PARROT almost to de-
spair of the future If our country. F'w people
have any idea OF the extent 10 which peo-
Pile are addicted to this purse destroying vice.
Statistics show that Of every 1000 women be-
tween the age OF Is aud 40 no less than G93 arc
habitual shoppers, aud of these more than one
half notoriously shop to what would be upiver-
sally considered excess. Eyea girls younger
than are frequently found shopping. Mothers
have actually been known 10 teach girls OF
tender years TO shop, by urging them 10 play
store" with.one another, aud to 20 through the
CHASTITY mockery of buying useless things with
unconvertible pin currency. When these
children grow little larger aud go to school
their mothers supply them with pocket money
and abet them in g1ing int1 shops and openly
buying ribbons and things. 1t is now a diff
cult task TO iud, even IN a retired country
farm house. girl who is absolutely uncontam-
mated by shopping; for, although there may
be farm houses remote from all kinds OF Shops,
nevertheless the tempter, in the shape of the
peddler, will search out the lnnosent farmers
daughter, and with his willy ways lead her to
take the steps ia a career OF headlong shopping
The husbands that have been made desolate by
wives whose passion for shopping has mastered
them, are almost without number. The amount
of mouey annually spent in shopping BY the
women of America Is so enormous that in COM
parisou with it the amount spsut by meu for
whisky seems too triaug TO deserve notice.
gow TO fight this terrible vics is a leslion
m ghich fhnrn has hitherto been Sall3taCtO-
ry answer.
Neither can we hope for auS thing from the et-
iorts of professional anti-shoppiug lecturers
These misguided women take the extreme
ground thaL all shopping is a siu per Sc, and de-
nOunce every shop koep7r a. h'nd lncsrhate
rney iuslst Jnat tue nOderate shopper Is as pad
the woman who wailu~s IA shopping, auu
Jnat sac wno UlYs u .uco dress " a. bad As
She who busS forty var Is nf trimmings or inSer-
lions Ii Que of Jhess lscturers nappsns To be
an eloquent woman, reformed shopper with
a fund of 'omic apecdotes AMI pathetic stories
illustrativs of tho tDllies aud mlserieS Of shop
ping she is moderately sure TO draw large
AUDIENCE. but sac pro4uces little or no ELECT
iu 10 'himing confirmed shoppers. Sometimes
the lecturer may induce a few woneu to sign
the total abstinence shopping pledge, but OF
the sgners nsarly every ole relApssS ~leh the
excitement of the lecture has been forgotten.
rhe tru h is that people will nos b. brought 20
regard total abstiueuce frotn shopping in suy
and ali circu ,nst IuceS ~ u Chris .I,ba dnty
the first ray of hope Ou JniS dark matter mas
bean aft rded by the organic ttiOn oi the shop
pIng- Wonlu's Medication Society" Is g.
cleiy owes its oi .iu H. several Intelligent And
upright women vim fully rvc0gu 70 ths eVis
ul excessive shopping, nut who do not co"Siuer
that shopping in uO!er ttion ~ hetes ar'y
wrong AS Is well known. tho liV rhs puf-
cn.,ss of the continued sh"pper vs. '''r innings.
Alter the hab,t 0i shopping becomes nS "a, cal-
ico bareEs, h, .siery, AMI even ginVas ceasa 10
s.tIsfS tao vlc i'm Sne Graves tao stronger
sum aus OF ''Lrrn nirgs,' and un those ahe
"a qlluders her own or her nash snd's substance.
rle Shopping WomtIs hDderA'Ilt 'c.etS
. edges its msnuper, 30 Ap>tinoice lcin tri u
miuAs, OK i-pt when Orl re by AZ TX ''rrir iiel
tauliis dress n tk-r. tut fOrDils L1e "A svoA 20
approach a coupter Wnefe trim uiuy' afs s,d'
Tue NE nhPts al the shcirtY "A 80 agree o. III
iaige N stopping ot d-iy X "a 1il' O. bt- -
ternOun auh never AS a IA r. a tHisSsiirhb iHe
funds IT mo society VIII % dto 10 "a sAHi
anntirfu-d snp1nsrs AS st1V "A rtfh ''t h7S'fe
G., reform, AMI f,r the rel ~ pf di7ttes.si thu
lln Oysrs tet a t.n.tilis W 80 WV1s nave fe-
in.d ths,n nv * .ssstvs shppDi ig; and every
,n,inb4r promises, Iu enpIntds S'rVtn 5, 70
stve tne preteradcs . "a 49, ws''lo -t,1 sup.
rne ish leucs VI a 'c sby wftIcn thu. e. SIS
the x,re,ns assures am i'loyed nY tIe pr les
s0nil auti-shoppinZ lecturers, aud a1ps as Ia
a reasonable way 10 the intelligence OF the
com nunIJy, Ought ~ DO very grer. IL WI re-
coIye the support of the very large class OF peO-
pie VINO are dlsgI,te'l with tho vi'iaic7 ana
iatolerAnc, III the poI'e.Sr,tt Lst ~ RS. II tS
really th, FIST org iaiz7 ell rt o. i1ee tte eEh
of excessive ,ppiIs vh'''h'S v'' H''h nAde'