Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-11

First Baptist Church last evening, 10 near
the second of Rev. G. NJ Shotfs sermons
upon hive local topics. The text was taken
from Isaiah iii, "a, Burning instead of
beauty" The reyerned gentleman said;
Ian requested to speak of another mod
ern craze, which finds high illustration II
ancient times. Human nature is the same
though the customs in clothing it are
changeable. Fashion ressserts is lunacy
and reminds one of Intermitten feyers.
Beauty at best is only skin deep. Beauty
often clouds her bewitching face with gsudy
paint and plaster that would make wall Of
coarse clay look common. wish beauty
would
LET HERSELF ALONE.
An untarnished blush Is the finest coloring
for female cheek. Whitewssh can never
hide the wrinkles Of age nor dissipation.
Character is portrayed in dress. Show
me the wardrobe and library and will re-
produce their owner and make her plead
guilty. There is no other such an index to
the real life within the soul as the dress we
wear outside. The way we walk Is mark
of the character Of our lives. Why is so
much made of dress by fashionable women?
They are deluded into the dream that thus
they are made more beautiful. They are
more attractive, tbs true, but not more
beautiful. / believe our clothes ought to be
made neatly and becomingly, and worn
gracefully and naturally. Take graceful
horse and dress him in straight jacket,
laced about his ribs till you push his lungs
INTO his Wind-pipe, lace pair OF
GRECIAS BEND BOOTS
upon his graceful feet, Msy-pole weave a
dozen yards of ribbon about his arched
neck, tighten the martingsle, shorten the
throat latch, girdle huge panier on his
back, put q sunfower on his bosom, bottle
Of perfume in his riders hand and fr;zzIed
poodle on his srm and you have very st
tractive but not beautiful spectacle.
"a woman thinks herself beautiful when
she piles q varied assortment of dry goods
upon her body, paints the eyebrows, en-
amsls her face, crops her foretop and puts
the girth buckle in the last notch and com
pels herself to mince her footsteps like a
crippled wasp when she goes shopping.
She verify thinks herself an object OF wor-
ship, and indeed it would not break single
literal commandment OF the inspired deca-
logue, for we are only forbidden to worship
ANYTHING made in the likeness OF
ANYTHING in the heavens above or the earth
beneath, or anything which is in the waters
under the earth, and l am sure they re-
semble neither.
THE CRAZE FOR DRESS
fsstens itself on females with an unrelentinR
grasp and, sad to say, begins its work early
in lite. Dressed and liberated from the
house so as to call attention to her gAudy
trappings, the wiser aud more sober
young men cast passing glance OF wonder
and pity and then turn away In disgust,
and so to secure attention she must put on
more 6nery and get grammar of the hand
kerchief Lana usge and practice mincing
footpaces and prepare herself for other con,
quests and victories. On some of our
prominent streets on the Sabbath day com.
mon decency hangs her head in shame to
see the reckless conduct OF hirts.
Standing on the corner of one of your
prominent street crossings this morning, a
citizen of observation was calling my atten
ton to the questionable characters passing
by. First there came group OF painted
and powdered women whose walk and
actions were anything else than modest, who
were noted to me as
LOW CHARACTERS.
Next there came two young girls OF this
congregation, both OF them Christians, aged
IA and Is, unconseiously playing the same
game, dressed in the same foolish costumes,
minciDg their steps and swinging their
handkerchiefs and gigging causing my
friend to remark: What pity to see girls
so young led astrsy.' My heart sunk within
me and / said: I shall tell all the
mothers and their daughters about the
dangers of Irritation and the usual dangers
incident to too much street-wslking.
IF all men and women on our streets
were pure you might be seen at any hour
of the day or night and no comments
would be made, but to don the same habits
and play the same Irritation game, and
follow in the same walks with the IMPURE
and abandoned, is sure to make men and
women of decency, as well as those with
vile intents, say, birds OF feather flock
together.
THE VAIN PRIDE
that results from a passion for gay dress is
sure to lead to vulgar means of displaying
it. The women of many nations whom we
call heathens, hide their persons from the
eyes downward, and Paul would enjoin
or at csrefulness on he part Of women,
even in their church service, lest they
should appear immodest.
when q woman 80 condescends to lift the
veil OF modesty from her face as to become
loud and gigghng in her manners on the
public street she suffers that which ought
not to fall to her lot. A word of warning
timely put may save her from the remorse
so sure to follow such conduct. Could |
permit myself to speak at lepgth | might re.
late facts that have come under my observa.
ton of the sad results that follow in many
cases. will give one illustration Of the sad
results ofsuch life Of vanity and spare
you the
UNPLEASANT DETAILS
of many others which / ould relate by in
Guiding them in this, ere well on that road:
an little town some hundreds of miles
down your beautiful Ohio River lived q
widowed mother. She had three si1gle
daughters, twelve, sixteen and twenty years
of age, and four noble sons. observed by
night as by day that the one aged sixteen
was willful and disobedient and spent much
Of her time in handkerchief and
other firtations. Living with my family in
part Of the same large old-fashioned house,
/ frequently warned the girl and her mother
against such conduct. But all that mother
and pastor could do awaited nothing. The
family were well and largely connected, and
soon friends of the family came to our res
cue in trying to save the girl from her fool
hardy fall, but to no avail. l resigned the
field and spent two years in another place,
and then went West, forgetting the circum.
stances in the hurry and hustle of the great
West until in my mail one morning l re-
eeived marked copy Of the Courier-Jour
nal of Louisyilla XIV. / hastily scanned its