The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-19
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Dr.. E. c. Hirsch, the eloquent rabbi
Who ick.tured in this city some time ago,
gave a discourse at Sinai Tempe las.
Sunday on Fashion. Among other
things ne said:
In strict parlaEce fashion cannot be
numbered among the modern deitieS. Per
haps since man has dwelt on this spinning
Slcoe TO TINS late hour at her altar have
all the generations OF Adams clan bent
the Knee and burned incense. To the
procession of her worshipers the savage
and barbarian tribes have contributed as
willing cevotees as have the civilized
nations. Climate has ;Ict limited her
realm ana culture has not bounded her
dominion. she may be styled tie univcr-
sal goddess. her cult be proclaimed the
church universal.
In our exposition of the operations Of
the law of natural selection we have dis
covered indications OF attitudes and et-
forts on the part of our animal ancestors
which perhaps deserve being dignified
with the name of our pre-eminentiy hui
man idol.
But with these and similar rldimen
tary exhibitions of impulses to worship
her; fashions magnetism is exhausted as
far as the prehuman habitants of our
earth are concerned. The universal cult
OF tickle fashion seems indeed to be an
exclusive priliese Of the tribe of Ewes
children. And under closer inspection
fashion will be seen to be expressive Of
some very brave and vital humanities,
Fashion is capricious. 1t delights in
variety and demands instability. But is
not change the very law of human free
dom? Lion and tiger, asp and ant, bee
and spider, rose ana dandelion, daffodii
and lily, diamond and amethyst are
chained to monotonous sameness. What
ever their beauty it does not vary from
age to age. Man will not be tied to i'm
mutability. He lives through the poly
chrome play OF variety. And again fash
le:: acknowledges that man as come from
natures hanGs is not perfect Nature
cannot give him all. He is bound to add
10 her gifts; yea, to lop off some Of her
bequests."'
1t is said that Mayor Harrison. of Chi
cago, Will send in an absolute vet, of the
ordinance gerrymandering the city into
wards with population all the way from
2e175 to ISL. In explanation the Times
Herald says:
When he came to examine the plan
damned through the Council last Mon
day night he found that it was vicious and
outrageous beyond the possibility Of sal
fSteH DE afneNQiIc1lt- tie IOunu that lnt
wards which! should have been above the
legal average Of $3.50 residents ranged
from 5000 to 2c,G20 below 1t, while large
outlying. rapidly growing wards ran from
5A1G0 up to e5,091 and G6,111 for the new
Twelfth and Twenty-eighth Wards respec-
lively.
There is something in this for Rich
monders 10 consider.
Referring to the publication of the
county expenses by the Board of Super
visors OF Fairfax county, the Richmond
Times APPLY SAYS:
The county of Fairfax has certainly
set a good example in this respect, and
it IS to the interest Of every county in
the State 10 initiate it
And we say TO every county, go and do
likewise. Tie people have right TO know
now their money is Observation-Disclosures
burg Free Lance
Il all the newspapers in the State will
take this subject up and agitate il, the
Legislature will do the rest.