Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-08
VIRTUE Of CLEANLINESS.
Bah Talks of Bathtubs as Things to
Be W0rShipped.


Be WOrShipped.
IMPOSSIBILITY OF DECADENCE IN
AAIERICA-TO BE CLEAN OF BO-
DY MEANS TO BE CLEAN OF SOUL
-SOCIETY'S VIEW OF VICE-THE
WORLDS REJUVENAToR - HOW
OLD AGE Is MADE POSSIBLE BY
CARE OF THE BODY-GOD'S GRE
ALTON OF MANTLE ITALIAN
SINGER 49, IMMORTALITY AND
DIRT AS INsEPARABLE COM
PANIONS.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
New York, Nov. 4, 1896.
There is a great deal of foolish talk
going round. Peoule who don't make a
great effort al thinking and are fond OF
hearing the sound of their own voices
are many in number There is great lik-
ing forannouncing that the world is in a
state Of decadence. There's fancy for
telling that men and women are now
at theirworst and that humanity gener-
alizing is in a pretty bad way. All this
is nonsense. The world is in a very
good state, and the people in it are, most
OF them, to be highly commended. The
average man works well, either with
his hands or his brain, and spends his
money literally. He likes to see the
woman who bears his name dressed
prectily and enjoying herself. Indeed,
he likes 10 think Of everybody as get
ting her share of the good things Of
life. Once in a while, there is a pict
ure in the newspapers OF dirty, I'M
kempt locking creature, who writes
silly poetry. who lives off his friends,
and who announces himself as the COM
ing man. His prediction IS wrong. He
is
THE PASSING FOOL.
He g, .arcts attention because h IS
an absolute cOnUas, to all the other
men. If he were as common as il is
claimed that he is, he would excite no
comment, but thank goodness he is
unusual and causes surprise. He is
seldom OF English or American birth,
France claims him and between you
and NE, l think France is welcome to
him.
In a country like our own where, even
with q New York flat, there is a bath
tub, The dacadent is an impOss.bi,i,y.
AS long as a nation is clean, it pro-
crosses. The nearest l have ever come
to worshipping inanimaie things has
been n giving all the praise it deserved
to wll-m3de ba,h-tuD. Men and wo-
men, when they are clean Of body are
very apt 10 be clean Of soul, clean Of
speech and clean of heart. Men may
pretend 10 be decad nts BIZ they can't
be clean and be Gecadents at the same
time. and society favOrs cleanliness.
Society IS by no means as black as it is
painted. 7. favOrs most OF the things
that tend TO make people comfortable
and happy. Coca society approves Of a
properly spread dinner table. The pro-
perly spread dinner-table encourages
the appetite. is an incentive to good di-
gestion, and as a natural sequence,
makes happy people.
SOCIETY AND IMMORTALITY.
Society disapproves Of immortality in
anv form. Il may seem. for a moment
as if sometimes it forgave the fashion,
able sinner and overlooked the fashion
able sin. but this is only for a moment.
As time goes by the great conservative
element refuses 10 recognize the fash
ionable sinner and audibly disapproves
Of whatever happens to be the fashiona-
bla sin. II counts lying as vulgar. In
addition it knows that lying Is stupid,
since the liar is invariably found out
Il disgpproves of drunkenness, for who
can RELY upon the man who is never
certain of himself? Good society IS to-
dav much better than it was hundred
wears ago. Why? In the first place, De
cause it is cleaner. The bath-iuO mas
made the religion Of cleanliness a pos
sibilitv. and In consequence 1t has IN
ceased good society. 1t keeps men and
women Younger. handsomer and health
Ter The man who mas kept up with the
times keeps his youth and vitality.
A CLEAN PLAY.
This Is DELIGHTFULLY."- shown in that
most clean of plays. Rosemary wheh
Tobn Drew. as the only one OF the
qrouD who we're all alive when Queen
Victoria was crowned, appears distin-
ouisbed and handsome when the queen
is celebrating her jubilee, not dressed
as she was fifty years before, but wear
ing the costume of an elderly gentle
man of to-day. He proves that he has
changed with the times, and not al
lowed himself to be older than they.
II is with a CHEEKY look on his face
that he announces that there is much
TO enjoy even when a man is 80; ana
don't think that very much of the en-
iovment depends on the man? Look
AZ the men and women who grow old
before their time. and the men and
women who lose interest in the life
that is about them and find happiness
and goodness only in the past. Per-
sonally. | believe
THE WORLD is GROWING YOUNG
Err
and better every day, and It is your
fault and my fault, if we don't take
advantage of all the good things that
come. those good things that tend to
keep us young, mentally and physical
". There are always new books to
read. perhaps some not as good as the
old ones. but you can read the new
ones and freshen up your wits by draw
ing comparisons between the past and
the present There are lovely women
to look at every day. and never in the
history of dress were women gowned
A. Il,