The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-30

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! did not steal enough.
Again: Wrong fashion makes people un-
natural and untrue. II is n factory from
| which has come forth more hollow protanseS
and unmcaning batteries and hypocrisies
than the Lowell mills ever turned ont shawls
and garments FASH is tho greatest of
all liars. 1t has made society in~incere.
! You know not what TO believe. When peo-
pie ask You 10 come you do not
you to come. When they send their
regards you do not know whether
it is an expression OF their heart. or an ex-
ternal civilitV. We have learned to take
| almost everything at a discount. Word is
sent mot at honle' when they are only too
lazy to dress themselves. They say: The
| furnace has Just gone out when in truth
they have had no fire in it all winter. They
| apologize for the unusual barrenness Of their
table when thoy never live any better. They
decry their most luxurious entertainments to
win a shower of approval. They apologize
| for their appearance, as though II were un-
! usual, when always at home they look just
So They would mako you believe that
! some nice sketch on the wall was the work
of master-painter. 1t was an heirloom
and once hung on the walls OF a castle; and
a duke gave it TO their grandfather. Peo-
| pie who will OF lie about anything else will
! lie about a picture On a small income we
must make the world believe that we arc
! atlluent, and our life becomes a cheat, a
| counterfeit and sham.
| Few people are really natural and unaf-
| fected. When say this do not mean TO
slur cultured manners. II is right that we
| should have more admiration for the sculp-
! tured marble than for the unhewn block
of the quarry. From many circles in life
fashion has driven out vivacity and en-
! nv iOs
| floats about the room and iceberg grinds
against iceberg. You must not laugh out
right; it is vulgar You must smile. You
must mot dash rapidly across the room
you must glide There is a round of bows
and grim,, and batteries and obs and abs,
and simperings, and namby pambyisin-a
world Of which is not worth one good,
round, honest peal of laughter From such
a hollow round the tortured guest retires at
the close of the evening and assures his
host that he has enjoyed himself.
Thus social life has been contorted and
deformed until, in some mountain cabin,
where rustics gather to the quilting or the
| apple-paring, there is more good cheer
than in all the frescoed ice houses Of the
metropolis. We want in all the higher
circles of society more warmth of heart
and natuTalness of behavior and not so
many refrigerators.
| again. NTOHS idSHiOI - lltoll DftJlblt
with happiness. Those who depend for
their comfort upon the admiration Of Others
are subject to frequent disappointment.
| Somebody will criticise their appearance,
or surpass them in brilliancy, or will re-
ceive more attention. Oh, the jealousy,
and detraction, and heart-burnings of those
| who move in this bewildered maze! Poor
butterfies Bright wings do not always
bring happiness. ''She that liveth in pleas.
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tions of high life that come to the challenge
and the fight are only the occasional crop
pings out of disQuietudes that are, under
| meath, like the stars of heaven for multi
| tude, but like the demons of the pit Tor
hate. The misery that will tonight in the
cellar cuddle up in the straw is not so Utter
as the princey disquietude which stalks
through splendid drawinC-rooms, broodlng
| over the Sights and offenses Of luxurious
life. The bitterness of life seems not 50
uniting when drunk out Of Il pewter mug,
| as when it pours from the chased lips of a
golden chalice. In the sharp crack of the
voluptuary's pistol, putting an end to his
earthly misery, hear the confirmation
that in hollow, fastidious life there is no
peace.
Again Devotion to wrong fashion is pro-
ductive of physical disease, mental imbe-
| clitY and spiritual whitening. Apparel in
sufficient to keep out the cold and the rain,
or so fitted upon the person that the func-
! tions of life are restrained: late hours filed
with excitement and feasting; free draughts
| Of wine that make one not beastly intoxicated
but only fashionabfy drunk; and Injurious
| indolence-are the instruments by which
this unreal life pushes its disciples into vale
tudinarianiSm and the grave Along the
walks of prosperous life death goes a-mow-
| ing, and such harvests as are reaped! Ma
| terra medica has been exhausted TO find
curatives for these physiological devasta-
| tions. DrOpsieS, cancers, consumptlons,
gout and almost every infirmity in all the
! realm Of pathology have been the penalties
paid. To counteract the damage pharmacy
has gone forth with medicament, panact a,
elixir, embrocation, salve and cataplasm.
Tonight with swollen feet upon cushioned
ottoman, and groaning with aches innumer-
able, will be the votary Of luxurious living,
! not half so happy as his groom or coal
| HEAVIER. Wrong fashion is the worlds un-
| dertaker, and drives thousands OF hearses 70
| Greenwood and Laurel Hill and Mount
| Auburn.
But, worse than that, this folly is an in
tenectual depletion. This endless study OF
proprieties and etiquette, patterns and
| styles, Is bedwarfing to the intellect /
never knew n woman or O man of extreme
! fashion that knew much. How bellttliDg
| the study Of the cut Of a cont, or the tic Of
a cravat, or the wrinkle in a sleeve, or the
color of a ribbon! How they are worried
! If something gets united, or hangs awTy, or
! is not nicely adiustcdl With a mind capa-
| BILE Of measuring the height and depth OF
| great subjects; able to II. ravel mysteries,
| TO walk through the universe, TO soar up
/ into tie infinty Of Gods nttributes-hov-
! ering perpetually over a new style of cloak
! / have known men reckless as 10 their
! character and regardless of Interests mo
! mentuous and eternal, exasperated by the
| shape Of a vest button. What is the matter
| with that woman wrought up INTO the
agony of despair! Oh, her muif Is out OF
| fashioni
Worse than all-this folly is not satisfied
| until it has extirpated every moral senti-
ment and blasted Tho soul. A wardrobe is
the rock upon which many soul has been
riven. The excitement Of a luxurious life
has been the vortex that has swallowed up
mo souls than the Maelstrom of Norway
ever DESTROYED ships, What room for ele-
waiting themes IN n beart filed with the
trivial and unreal Who can wonder that
in this haste for sun-giiaed baubles and
winged thistle-down men and women should
tumble into runi The travellers to de5t1'uc-
tion are not ali clothed in rags, On that
road chariot iostlee egainst chariot and be-
hind steeds in harness soldea-piated and
glittering, they so down, coach AZ fub
herald and positions racketing on the not
pavements OF hell. Clear the track Ba-
zas hang out their eolorS over the road,
and trees Of tropical fi'uitfulness overtrabeh
the way. No sound Of noe disturbs the arr