The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-20
WOMEN EXTRAVAGANZA
But Rev. MI. Jackson Says
They Are Not as Bad
as the Men.
THE POINTS OF DIFFERENCE.
Tears for Poor Heatheas Wiped
Away on $3.50 Handkerchiets
Still the World is
Growing Better.

Hard Times and the Sin OF Extrava-
gance," was the topic of an excellent
sermoh preached last evening by the
Rev. ]. G. Jackson at the Hedding NJ. E.
Church. The sermon was well prepared.
aud contained advice which. IL followed,
would produce encouraging results.
Hard times" said Mr.. jackson. had
struck ancient Israel exceedingly hard.
Had times then were much as n ard
times now. As We hear l saiah descri be
the scenes 10 his country, we see they
were alnostt tue same as within TINS de-
cade, He tells tine jews their Industries
were prostrate. 50 are ours. Strau gsrs
went wandering through tbsir land de-
vourinR It's plainly the orig
inals Of our modern tramps.
by reason of these things Israel was
deserted by prosperity aud became like a
cottage III u vineyard when grape har-
vest was over. The lofty looks OF men
w re humpled and the haughtiness of
men bowed. AS were our money kings in
the old panic days. Strong men III ous-
iness became as low scorcaed in flame,
that could stand 40 strain. There was
dah ger of bread riots as there Was With
US, If we take Isaiah's accaunt feature
by feature, as it stands III his frat three
cuapters aud compare 1t with what We
have seen here in America, an almost
exact parallel may ue traced.
I'm the midst of II all the prophet
m forth aud begins to read the peo-
pie some much needed lessons. He tells
them their cAlAmilies are very largely
the result of national slns, just as ours
ale.
EXTRAVAGANCE OF WOMEN.
"Isaiah also speaks vi the extravaganza
of women. How tuey arrayed them-
selves III costly garments aud jeweiry.
L. otan 6aCnfAQ nix atIauflun zcAElDVlV
t. men also. as you can read III the con-
text. Auu l hold there are as many and
worse extrRvagances among inen. The
difference is that a mans eXtraYagance
is of Il nature that Is not seen, while a
WonIan's ia plain. A maufs Is 10 delignss
OF seuse, principally. wines, cigars. rides,
theatres, oysters, whisky, tnluKs tnab
%oitepglve not much utward slku, ex-
ceoL the whisky, but tell In purse.
"a woman Is in dress, Jewelry and
household AID table furnishing. WHICH
all the world looks upon. OF tho Two
The woman'S is least bad oy Just as mucn
as love of display is not so oRi US undue
qualification Of appetite. OF tue two.
wonlan's is the least costly. Take tae
WINE, tobacco, Whiskey and betting bills
of lie men of this country, Ii it Will be
almost UNNECESSARILY larger than The
dress biflssof the Men carry the
purse, and can conceal their extrava-
k3QCCSs S0AoO A@N 49,
as men, understand that. notwitnstand-
lug ali the talk, the female sex Is not ea-
titled to any bad pre-eminence over u
Own III this matter.
Compared with ths classic Roman
tines we hardly know what eXtrava-
gsnce means. Ltpldus ordered $4,000
spent on ais funeral; Crssus paid $500 0J
for Il Town restIence; Galt4ula hired a
cook for II single occasion for 5000 aud
spent S400, 600 on u bAnQ let; Cleopatra
dissolved $300,0 600 worth of pearls in
vinegar for her lover to drink. A
pa rlcisn. for u Joke, sold aa estate worth
$500. 00U to q freedman Tor 800. Cesar
VA a fast youth, aud WAS IN debt from
three 10 five li.iilious OF dollars by the
time he was seventeen years cid.
WORLD GROWING BETTER.
Dom Esil ma the woriu Is not gov
ing betterI We are ~extravaganr enou .h
though s,iil, where III some of our cities
ladies wear 81 600 u esses to church aud
wipe away their tears for the DOOR
heather upon $3.50 handkerchiefs, so thai
there is yet room for Improvement.
Among the causes of our present
American recklessness in the use OF
money must a1ways be reckoned our
most demoralizlng Civil War. War is Il
social smallpox, Which drains ali kinds
of ev Is to the surface. We turned three
billion dollars of real property into cash.
When Il man turns his realty into cash
he is mo e apt TO spend ii; hat is what
the Prodigal Son die. We realized Oh
our domain In like manner ana then
went out to that ever memorable Irish
wake with our Southern brethren over
The corpse of slavery. We, like true
Irishmen. did not care for expenses.
Whiskey flowed freely. shillalahs were
brandished and many heads were broken.
Nc wonder then that wneu we woke the
next morning we were terribly SICK and
a fearful headache, The evidences
of our decentralization yet liuger amoug
US.
Another cause of extravaganza is the
minxiin9 aud comingling aud competl-
Zion of all classes Of our American soci-
ETY. together. II we 20 to Europe We iud
people divided iuto classes. and eaeh class
has its w mode of living and dressing.
These classes do not break ia upon each
other; each can live within its W
means. But here In America it is diffes-
ent. We pitch together all classes, law
ytrs, biacksmiths, doctors, nod carriers,
preachers, farmers. college professors.
shopkeepers, bankers, literary men,
Fl '.lers, sops aud fools in o Que cauldrou,
3 r them well together, turn out a mix
tur- something like the witches broth in
"MBcbeth," AMI call 1t society. Every
man thinks he is as good as the next
man. il not a little better. no matter VINO
the next man is.
EXTRAVAGANCE AT FUNERALS.
Another extravaganza is In regard TO
funerals. appreciate all the tenderness
which prompts our funeral display, but
I am sure there is often as much foolish
pride in it 8 anything else. l took pains
n few years ago In one of the principal
towns in Ohio to ascertain the cost OF the
average funeral. Counting all things In
IL was between 5000 and $500. Would not
a proper economy among both ricn and
poor, the rich partly for the sake of the
poor. considerably reduce the averag ?
Let us bury our dead as We are able. and
AS they would advise In justice to the
living could their voices reach us.
"And now let US loeE at the results OF
this ex~travagance fn general We Re
into debt and can't get out, and loost
our self respect. We have to dodge men
we owe and degenerate into skunks ano
dead beats. Our life becomes q hollow
hollow lie. and finally bursts like a bub
BILE and we are bankrupt"