Fashionable society and the cost of vanity in dress
The passage condemns the fashionable obsession with changeable dress and beauty. It cites Dickens reading, Kate Nickleby's fashion, and how vanity leads to hospital and graveyard risk, noting courtiers in Rome and cruel treatment of maids. It contrasts Christian gentleness with the cruelty of ostentation in Monday orders for dresses and bonnets for midweek events.
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Registration Notice Warns Voters on January Deadline
Voters are urged to check the registration list for proper names and spellings. Those with unpaid rates and absentees must resolve payments by the stated date or risk exclusion from the upcoming voter register.
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Poland and Russian power reshapes a divided nation
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