Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-15
COSTUME AND MORALS.
The Sixth of TaImage's Marriage
Ring Series.
EVIL EFFECTS OF IMPROPER DRESS
Dress On the Stage, in Society and Else
where.---The Tragedy OF
Human Clothes.
SnaciaI % The ReQiStef.

i. Dewitt Ialmage, ~. u, PFeaeHeu "
day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle the sixth
of his series of sermons on "The Marriage
Ring" the subject beng Costume and
Morals" The opening doxology was sung
with an effect that cannot be imagined ex'
cept by those who have heard it in this
church, led on by organ and cornet pre-
centor. DR.. TsImsge expounded chap
ter in Isaiah descriptive OF the social and
commercial splendor OF the city OF Tyre
The hymn sung was:
Before Jehovah awful throne,
Ye nations bow with sacred joy"
The text was from Isaiah iii, l6, 1925:
Moreover the Lord said; Because the
daughters Of Zion ere naughty and walk
with stretched-forth necks and wanton
eyes, walking and mincing as they
90, and making a tinkling with
their feet, in that day the
Lord will take away the bravery OF their
tinkling ornaments about their feet, and
their csuls, and their round tires like the
moon, the chains and the bracelets, and
the muffiers, the bonnets, and the orns-
meuts OF the legs, and the hesdbsnds, and
the tablets and the earrings, the rings
aud nose.jewels, the changeable suits OF
apparel, and the msntles and the VIM
pies, and the crisping pins, the glasses,
and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the
wells" Following is the sermon in full;
This is
TYRIAN FASHION PLATE.
1t puts NS $500 years back and sets US
down in an ancient city. The procession
of men and women is moving up and
down the gay streets. 1t ia the height Of
the fashionable season. The sen0ible men
aud women move with 80 much modesty
that they do not attract our attention.
But here come the naughty daugt.
ters of Jerusalem They lean for
ward; they lean very much
forward; 80 far forward as to be unnatural
-tottering wobbling, wriggling, flirting,
or, IS my text describes it, they walk
with stretched.forth necks, walking and
minciug as they 60" They have in most
astounding. style arranged their bonnets
and their wells and their entire apparel,
and now 90 through the streets taking
more of the pavement than they are entl-
tied 10, sweeping along with skirts that the
text describes as round tires like the
moon See that is prircess Look
That ia damascus sword.msker Look !
That ia G Syrian merchant The jirgling
of the chains and the lsshiUE ut the head.
bands and the exhibitions of universal
swsgger attract the attention Of the
prophet Iaaiah, and be brings his camera
TO bear upon the scene aud takes picture
for all the ages BIT where is that sceue2
Vanished Where are those gay streets? ?
Vermiu covered population pass through
them. Where are tha hands and the
necks and the foreheads and the shoulders
and the feet that sported all that magnih-
cence' Ashes Ashes
That
We SHOULD ALL re CLAD
is proved by the opening OF the first ward
robe in Paradise, with its apparel OF dark
green. That we should oil IS far as our
means allows us be beautifully and grace
fully apparelsd, is proved oy the fact bat
God never made wave but he glided it
with golden sunoeams, or tree but he
garlanded il with blossoms, or sky but be
! studded it with stars, or allowed even the
smoke Of furnace to ascend but he col
umned nud tu.reted and dolei aud scroll
ed it into outlines ot indescribable grace
fulness. When see the apple orchards
Of the spring ana the pageantry OF
the autumal toreSts. ccne 10 the conclu
sion that if nature ever does Join the
church, while she may be Quaker in the
silence OF her worship, shp never will be o
Quaker in the style Of her dress. Why the
ro,obos y; q ",;I; '.rn loaf or the stamen OF a
water lily? Why, when the day depal .,
does it let the folding doors Of heaven stay
open so long, when it might go in 50 quick
! "? One summer morning | saw an army
of a million spears, each one adorned with
a diamond OF the first water-l mean the
grass with the dew on it, When the
prodigal came home bis father not only
put coat on his back, but jewolry on bis
| hand. Christ wore beard. Paul, the
! bachelor Apostle, not afflicted with any
sentimentality, admired the arrangement
of a womans hair when he said in his
epistle, "If woman have long hsir il is a
glory unto her" There will be fashion in
heaven as on earth bat it will be differ
ent kind Of fashion. 1t will decide the
color OF the dress aud the population OF
that country, by beautiful law will wear
white
| say these things ss background 10
nv sermon to show you that have
no PRIM, PRECISE, .PkUDIsH OR CAST-lRON
THEORIES
on the subject of human apparel; but the
GODDESS OF fashion has set up her throne
in this country, and at the sound
OF the timbrel we are all expected
to fsll down and worship Her alter:
smoke with the sacrifice of the bodies and
souls of ten thousand victims In hel
temple four people and in the organ lott
and from them there comes down q cold
drizzle OF music, freezing on the ears o.
ber worshippers. This goddess OF fashion
has become rival of the Lord OF hesVe;
aud earth, and it is high time we uElimber
ed our DAllSTlSe tESluSt luis lHOIaA y
When come TO count the victims o
fashion | find as many masculine s.
feminine. Men make an easy tiradt
against woman as though she were tn
chief worshiper at this idolstrous shrine
ard no doubt some men in the more cor
spicuous part of the pew have slread
cast glances at the more retired part G
the pew, their look prophecy of genel
Gus distribution. Ny sermon shall be a
: appropriate for one end of the pew as 70
the other.
MEN ARE AS MUCH THE IDOLATERS OF FASH
ION As woNES,
, but they sacrifice on different part Of th
altar. With men the fashion goes t
: cigars and club-rooms and yachting pa
r ties and vine ,suppers. In the Unite
+ States the men chew up and smoke on
!. hundred millions OF dollars worth of Il
!, bacco every year. Ths. is their fashion
!. In London not long ago q man died VII
s started in life with S750,000. But be a
it ali up in gluttonies, sending his sgen
- al 1ar4a nf tho aarth fnr ANNA rare de-