Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-30
rors, and vases, and Gobelins and Armin-
sters. Many household establishments are
like racing steamboat propelled at the
UTMOST STRAIN AND RISK,

| SterS. many nOuSenOiu ESTABLISHMENTS are
like racing steamboat propelled at the
UTMOST STRAIN AND RISK,
and just coming to o terrific explosion.
"Who cares" say they, ''if we only come
out ahead?"
There is no one cause to-day of more
financial embarrassment and of more dis
honesties than this determination at all
hazards to live as we'll 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 larger"
Never mind that my friends have better
residence and 80 will l." "A dress Of
that style and material l must have.
cannot afford it by great deal; but who
cares for that? Ny neighbor had one from
that pattern, and / must have one" There
are scores of men in the dungeons of the
penitentiary who risked honor, business
everything, in the effort to shine like 9TH
ers. Though the heavens fall, they must
be 'in the fashion"
The most famous frauds Of the day have
resulted from this feeling. 1t keeps hun
dreds OF men struggling for their CONNER
cial existence. The trouble is that some
are caught and incarcerated if their lar
ceny 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 has come forth more hollow
pretenses and unmeaning batteries and
hypOcrisies than the Lowell mills ever
turned out shawls and garments. Fashion
is the greatest of all liars. 1t has made
society insincere 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 re-
CARDS you do not know whether it is al
expression Of their heart, or an external
civility. We have learned to take almost
| EVERYTHING AT A DISCOUNT.
Word is sent mot at home" when they
are only to lazy to dress themselves.
They say: ''The furnace has Just gone
out" when in truth they have mad no fire
in it all winter. They apologize for the
unusual barrenness of their table when
they never live any better. They decry
their most luxurious entertainments 10
win shower of approval. They apologize
for their appearance, as though it were
unusual, when always at home they look
Just so. They would make you believe
that some nice sketch on the wall was the
work OF master painter. ut was an
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castle, and duke gave it 10 their grand
father" People who will not lie about
anything else will lie about picture. On
a small income we must make the world
believe that We are ailluent, and our life
becomes q cheat, a counterfeitan sham
Again Wrong fashion is incompatible
with happiness. Those who depend for
their comfort upon the admiration OF
others are subject to frequent disappoint'
ment. Somebody will crticse their ap,
pearance, or surpass them in brilliancy, oil
will receive more attention. Oh, the
jealousy, and detracton, and heartburn
ings of those who move in this bewilder'
ed maze! Poor butterflies! Bright wing
do not always bring happiness. 'She
tha' liveth in pleasure is dead while she
liveth." The revelations of high life that
come to the challenge and the fight ar,
only the occasional croppings ont of dis
quietudes that are, underneath, like the
demons of the pit for hate. The miserS
that will tonight in the cellar cuddle uT
in the straw ia not 80 utter as the princely
disquietude which stalks through splendid
drawing-rOoms, brooding over the slight'
and offences of luxurious life. The bit
terness of life seems not so uDtitting wher
drunk out of pewter mug, AZ when il
pours from the chased lips of COLDER
chalCe. In the sharp crack of
THE voLUPTUARY's PISTOL,
putting au end to his earthly misery,
hear the confirmation that in a hollow
fastidious life there is no peace.
Again: Devotion to wrong fashion II
productive Of physical disease, mental i'm
becility and spiritual whitening. Appare
, insufficient to keep ont the cold and th'
rain, or 80 fitted upon the person that the
functions of life are restrained; late hour,
T filled with excitement and feasting; fre,
drafts Of wine that make one not beastly
intoxicated, bat only fashioDably drunk
and luxurious indolence--are the instru
ments by which this unreal life pushes il,
disciples into valetudinarianiam and th,
l grave. Along the walks of prosperous
, life. Death goes a. .mowing-and such har
! vests as are reaped Materia Medica ha
been exhausted to find curstives for thes'
J physiological deyastations. Dropsies, can
GERS, consumptions, gout and almost ever.
: iniirmity in all the realm of patholog,
: have been the penalties paid. To counter
act the damage pharmacy has gone fortl
3 with medicament, panacea, elixir, embro
8 cation, salve and cataplasm.
But, worse than that, this folly il al
intellectual depletion. This endles
, study of proprieties and etiquette pattern
I and STYLES, is bedwarfing to the intellect
3 have known men reckless as to thei
= character and regardless Of interests mo
: mentous and eternal, exasperated by tn
shape Of vest button. What is the mat
ter with that woman wrought mp into tn
l agony OF despair? Oh, her muff is out @
fashion!
: Worse than all-this folly is not salts
fed until il has extirpated every mora
D sentiment and blasted the soul. A ward
/ robe is the rock upon which many sou
2 has been riven. The excitement of Ink
E urious life has been the vortex that bs
. swallowed up more souls than the Mae
, strom off Norway ever destroyed ship.
, What room for elevsting them in hear
: filled with the trivial and unreal?
] But watch the career Of one thorough
artificial. Thorough inheritance, or pei
, haps his own skill
HAVING OBTAINED ENOUGH
for purposes Of display, he feels himsel
thoroughly established. He sits aloc
from the common herd, and looks out {
his window upon the poor man and says
: ''Put that dirty wretch off my steps in
mediately!.' On Sabbath day he finds tn
church, but mourns the fact that he mus
worship with so many Of the iDel"eant
: and says: 'They are perfectly a~fdl!'
That man that you put in my pew had
coat on his back that did not cost fv
dollars" He struts through life unsyn
{ pathetic with trouble and says: 81 Car
: not be bothered" Is delighted with som
t doubtful story of Partisan life, but think
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