Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-15
= 7VuFEIJNG W VA MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY Is 1885,

DuuQlng IN New 0rk cost mllliOns OF dol
lars more than it ought to have cost, when
you find that the man who gave out the
contracts paid more than FIVE thousand
dollars for bis daughters wedding dress.
Cashmeres of thousand dollars each are
not rare on Broadway. 1t Is estimated
that there are eight thousand women in
these two cities who have expended on
their personal array two thousand dollars
year.
What are the men to do in order to keep
up such home wardrobes2
STEAL
that is the only respectable thing they
can do During the last fifteen years
there have been innumerable fine
business men shipwrecked on the
wardrobe. The temptation comes in
this way: man thinks more of his family
than all the world outside, and if they
spend the evening in describing to him the
superior wardrobe of the family across
the street that they cannot bear the sight
OF, the man is thrown on his gsllantry and
his pride OF family, and without translsting
his feelings into plain language he goes
extortion and issuing of false stock and
skillful penmsnship'in writing somebody
elses name at the foot Of promjssory
note; and they all 60 down together-the
husband to the prison. the wife to the sew.
ing machine, the children to be taken care
OF by those who were called poor relations
Oh, for some new Shakespeare to arise and
write
THE TRAGEDY or HUMAN CLoTHEsl
Act the first Of the tragedy:-A plain
but beautiful home. Euter the newly mar
ried pair. Enter simplicity Of manner and
behavior. Enter as much happiness as is
ever found in one home.
Act the nd:-Disconten with the
humble home. Enter Envy. Enter
Jealousy. Enter desire OF display.
Act the third:-Eulargement CT ex-
penses Enter all the queenly dress,
makers. Enter the French nilliners.
Act the ourth:-The tiptop Of society.
Enter princes and princesses Of New York
life Enter magnificent plate end equip.
age. Enter everything splendid.
Act the fifth and last winding OF the
sceue:-Enter the assignee. Enter the
sheriff. Enter the creditors. Eater
humiliation Enter the wrath OF God
Enter the contempt OF society. Enter
death. Now let the elk curtain drop on
the stage. The farce is ended and the
lights are out.
Will you forgive me if say il ter5e
shape possible, that some Of the men IN thus
country have to forge and to periure Gnd
swindle to pay for their wives dresses |
will say it whether you forgive me or no!
Again: extrsvagant costume is
THE FOE or ALL CHRISTIAN AIMS GIVING
Men and women put so much in personal
display thst they often have nothing for
God and the cause Of safering humanity.
A Christian man cracking his Palais Roy
al gloves across the back by shuttin: up
his hand 10 hide the Cuce cent he puts
into the poor box A Christian woman a.
the story OF the Hottentots shedding copi-
GUS tears into twenty five dollar hand
kerchief and then giving two cent piece
to the collection thrgsting it down under
the hills 30 people will not know but 1t was
a ten dollar gold piece. One hundred
dollars for incense to fashion-two cents
to God GCd gives US ninety cents out OF
every dollar. The other ten cent?, By
command of the Bible .eiong 10 Him
Is not God liberal according to the tithing
system laid down in the Old Testament
is not God liberal in giving Us ninety cents
out Of dollar whep he takes but ten?
We do not like that. We want to have
niuety.nine cents for ourselves and one for
God.
Nov / would great deal rather steal
ten cents from you than God. think one
reason why great many people do not
get along in worldly accumulation faster is
because they do not observe this Divine
rule. God says We'll; iE tlat Man ID
net rst.sfed with ninety cents out OF a
doliar, then | will take the whole dollar
and l will give it to the man or woman
who iS honest with me-" The greatest
obstacle to charity 10 the Christian church
to dcY % .hs isct that men expend so much
oa their table aud women so much on
their dress they have got nothing left for
the work Of God and the wov,ds seIteT-
ment.
Again, eXuavagant costume is distrac.
ton TO public worship. You know very
we'll there are good many people who
go to church Just as they 90 the races,
TO SEQ who will come out first Men
and women with souls to be saved passing
the hour in wondering where that man got
his cravat, or what store that woman pa
,ronizes. In many Of our churches the
preliminary exercises are taken up with
the discussion of wsrdrobes. tits pitiabIe.
Ia it not wonderful that the Lord does not
strike the meeting houses with lightning:
What distraction OF public Worship Dying
men and women whose bodies are soon 10
be turned into dust, yet before three
worlds strutting like peaoOcks. People
sitting down In pew or taking no hymn
book, sl absorbed at the same time in
personal array, to sing
! Rise, my soul, aud stretch ;.y aIug.
Thy bette ICrt,Un trace;
R,yetronn transitOry things,
Toward heaven, thy native pace
! adopt the EpiScopslisn prayer aud
say. Good Lord, deliver us
/ EKtrayaga2t aastans
.TTgTTIgS THE ISTELLECT.