Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-03
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GUS living, not half SO happy as his
groom or coalheaver. Wrong fashion
is the worlds undertaken, and drives
thousands of henrses to Greenwood and
Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn.
But, worse than that, this folly is an
intellectual depletion. This endless
study of prophecies and etiquette, pat
terms AID styles, is bedW.rfiDg to the in
tellect. never knew woman or man
of extreme fashion that knew much. How
belittling the study of the cut OF coat,
or the Tie OF cravSt, or the wrinkle in
sleeve, or the color OF 8 ribbon! How
they are worried il something gets IN
tied, or hangs awry, or is not nicely
adjusted With mind capable OF meas
uring the height and depth OF great SUBJ
iects; able to unravel mysteries, to walk
through the universe, to soar up into the
inhnity of Gods Notwithstanding
perpetually over new style Of cloak! l
have known men reckless as to their
character aud regardless Of interests
momentous and eternal, exasDerHted By
the shape Of a vest-button. What is the
matter with that woman wrought up in o
the sgony of despair? Oh, her muff is
out of fashion!
Worse than all-this folly is not salts
fed until it has extirpated every moral
sentiment and
BLASTED THE SOUL.
A wardrobe is the rock upon which
many soul has been riven. The excite
ment of q luxurious life has been the
vortex that has swallowed uD more souls
than the mselstrom on Norway ever
destroyed ships. Whist room for ele-
waiting themes IN heart filled with the
trivial land unreal? Who can wonder
that in this haste for sun-gilded baubles
and winged thistle-down lnen and women
should tumble into ruin? The travellers
to destruction are not all clothed in rsgs.
On that road chariot jJsties Sgsinst
chariot; and behind steeds in harness
golden plated and glitteTing they go
position, racketing on the hot
Bazaars hang out their cclOrs over the
road; and trees Of tropical truitfulness
oVerbrsuch the Wsy. No sound OF woe
disturbs the air, but all is light, and song,
and wine and gorgeousness. The wsrld
comes out to greet the dazzling process
sion with: "Hurrah! Hurrsh!" But
suddenly there is halt and sn outcry of
dismsy, and al overthrow worse than the
Red Sea tumbliDg upon the Egyptians.
Shadow Of grave-stones upol finest silk!
WormWood squeezed into impearled
goblets. Death with one Geld breath
whitening the lesves and freezing the
fountains.
In the wild tumult of the LAST day
he mountains falling, the heavens flying,
the thrones uprising, the universe as
sembIlng; amid the boom of the last
great Handicapped, snd under the crack
ling of burning world-whst will be-
come of the disciple of unholy fashion?
But watch the career of one thoroughly
artificial. Through inheritance, or per-
haps his own skill having obtained
enough for purposes Of display, he feels
himself thoroughly established. He sits
aIoof from the common herd and looks
out OF his window upon the poor man
and says: "Put that dirty wretch OF my
steps Immediately! Ga Sabbath days
he finds the church, but mourns the fact
he must worship with
SO MANY OF THE INKLEGANT,
and says: "They are perfectly awful"
nTbat man that you put in my pew had
cost on his back that did not cost
$50 He struts through life uusympa-
theiic with trouble and says: III cannot
be bothered" Is delighted with some
doubtful story of Partisan life, but
thinks that there are some very indecent
things Ia the Bible. Walks arm in arm
with the successful man of the world,
but does not know his own brother. Loves
to be praised for his splendid house, and
41lA ha be n 20
years ago says: swell, really; do you
think so?"
But the brief strut Of his lie is about
over. Up stairs, he dies. No angel
wings lowering about him. No Gospel
promises kindling up the darkness; but
exquisite embroidery, elegant pictures,