Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-03
cares" say they, "if we only come out

cares" say they, "if we only come out
| ahead?n
There is no one cause to-day of more
financial embarrassment and of more dis
honesties than this determination st all
hazards to live IS well as or better than
other people. There are persons who
will
RISK THEIR ETERNITY
upon one pier mirror, or who will dash
out the splendors of heaven to get another
trinket.
"My house is too small" "But," SAYS
some one, "you cannot pay for a larger"
"Never mind that, my friends have bet
ter residence and so will l." ga dress
of thsG style and material | must hsve,
cannot afford it by a great deal; but who
cares for that? My neighoor had one
from that pattern, and must have one. !"
There are scores Of men in the dungeons
Of the penitentiary who risked honor, bus
iness--everything, in the effort to shine like
others. Though the heavens fall they
must be sin the fashion,"
The most famous frauds of the day
| have resulted from this feeling. It
keeps hundreds of men struggling for
their commercial existence. The trouble
| is that some are caught and incarcerated
if their larceny be small. II it be great
they @escape and build their castle on
the Rhine. Men get into jail not because
they steal, but because they did not steal
enough.
Again: Wrong fashion makes people
unnatural and untrue. 1t is factory
from which come forth more hollow pre-
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hypocrisies than the Lowell mills ever
turned out shawls and garments. Fash
ion is the greatest of all liars. 1t has
made society ingincere. You know not
what to believe. When people ask you
to come, you DO not know whether or
not they want you to come. When they
send their regards you do not know
whether it is an expression OF their heart,
or an external civility. We have learned
to take almost
EVERYTHING AT DISCOUNT.
Word is sent "not st home" when they
are only too lazy too 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 barrennesssof their table, when
they have never lived any better. They
decry their most luxurious entertainment
TO win q shower of approval. They
apologize for their appearance, as though
it were unusual, when always at home
they look Just so. They wouldsmske you
believe that some nice sketch on the wall
was the work OF q msster-painter. "It
was an heirloom and once hung on the
walls of castle; and 8 duke gave it to
their grandfather" People who will not
lie about anything else will lie about
picture. On 8 small income we
must make the world believe that
we are afnuent, and our life becomes 8
cheat, counterfeit and sham. Few
people are really natural and unaffected.
When 1 say this do not mean to slur
cultured manners. Il is right that we
should have more admiration for the
sculptured marble than for the unhewn
block Of the quarry. From many circles
in life fashion has driven out viVacity
and enthusiasm. A frozen dignity instead
floats about the room and iceberg grinds
against iceberg. You must not laugh
outright; it is vulgar. You must smile.
You must not Dash rapidly across the
room, you must glide. There is round
of bows, and grins, and batteries, and
obs and abs, and simperings, end Mandy
psmbyism-a world of which is not worth
one good, round, honest peal oflaughter.
From such hollow round the tortured
guest Eetires st the close Of the evening
and assures his host that he has enjoyed
himself. Thus social life has been con-
torted and deformed, until, in some
mountain cabin, where rustics gather to
the quilting or the apple-paring, there
in more good cheer than in all the fres-
snnh ~ noNz 80 10
want in all the higher circles OF society
behavior, and not
so MANY REFRIGERAToRs.
Again: Wrong fashion is Incompatible
with happiness. Those who depend for
their comfort upon the admiration of 9TH
ers are subject to frequent disappoint-
ment. Somebody will criticise their sp-
pearance, or surpass them in bIilliancY,
or will receive more attention. Oh, the
jealousy, aud detraction, and heart burn
ings of those who move in this bswildered
mszs. Poor butterfiesi Bright wings
do not always bring happiness.
"She that liveth in pleasure is
dead while she liveth." The
revelations OF high life that come to the
challenge and the fight are only the occ3-
slonsl groupings out Of disquietudes that
are, underneath, like the stars of heaven
for multitude but like the demons of the
pit for hate. The misery that will to-
night in the cellar cuddle up in the straw
is not so utter as the princely disquletude
which stalks through splendid drawing
rooms brooding over the sights and Of
fences of luxurious life. The bitterness
of life seems not so uniting when drunk |
out of q pewter mug as when it pours |
from the chased lips of golden chalice. |
In the sharp crack of the voluptuary's |
pistol, putting an end to his earthly mis- |
cry, l hear the confirmation that in q |
hollow, fastidious life there is no peace. |
Again, devotion to wrong fashion is
productive of physical disease, mental |
imbecilisy and spiritual whitening. APP |
parel insufficient to keep out the cold and |
the rain or so fitted upon the person that |
the functions OF life are restrained, late
hours filed with excitement and fessting, |
free drafts of wine thst make one not |
beastly intoxicated but only fsshionsbly
drunk, and luxurious indolence-are the
by which this unreal life
PUSHES ITS DISCIPLES
into vsletudinarianism and the grave.
Along the walks of prosperous life Death
goes a-moHing-Gnd such harVests as are
reapedl Materie medica has been ex-
hsusted to find curstives for these physi-
illogical devaststioRs. Dropsies, can
GERS, consumptiors, govt and almost
every in1rmity in al the realm of psthol-
n0u hsUa haau Tho nan a1f1na maid To