Appearance

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 18, 1870

APPEARANCE.—Upon the subject of dress and appearance, the New York Times thus remarks:

A coat that has the marks of use upon it, is a recommendation to people of sense, and a hat with too much nap and too high duster, is a derogatory circumstance. The best coats in Broadway are on the backs of penniless fops, broken-down merchants, clerks with pitiful salaries, and men that do not pay up. The heaviest gold chains dangle from the fobs of gamblers and gentlemen of very limited means. Costly ornaments on ladies indicate to the eyes that are well opened, the fact of a silly lover or husband cramped for funds. And when a pretty woman goes by in plain and neat apparel, it is the presumption that she has fair expectations, and a husband that can show a balance in his favor. For women are like books—too much gilding makes men suspicious that the binding is the most important part.