BAZAARS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1189, 21 May 1872, Page 2

BAZAARS.

Everybody must'''nWe%bsersecr that amid all the turmoils of this life there are a few ladies biticasiohally = niSt 'with "who maintains a.perfect serenity] of mmd — who never trouble themselves about the great 4f.wo.man'! question,,, whq,,, never, refuse to take their food, never seem^qjiae in high spirits or low spirits, and are in fact, . as <far as qutward appearance gp«s, ; perfectly contended. ' j These , are/ [ladies^ with? small rincomea- who"..^prk for^bazaarsV,' Their lives ajre'. spent in ■. ssjching^d .sewing, •embroidery^ and .'sketching, . ,imd, satiafied iiwith their/euiplgyraentSj they, leaißftoroughly harmless if not useful liyrt^fid although there are some people^who, having been peragadec^to give a guinea for a penwipej^^ffthfswppence in aid of the conversioh^^iKe^Ehugs, are weak .on, arriving aj; home i^ith, their ■purchase ' to'lery d'dwh' bazsiars as a sy^ni of extortion, there, can.be, little doubt that they effect a vast amoiintVof 'good by occupying.the of. liiipsejwho if ; un- , employed , ; might. ; justly,, ',d, e jmnd { as : , a homage to their, attracjiions rather more attention than* this . busy world, has itime to bestow upon them. Some such thought ' .must'hay^.passed-'thrbugbl'the 1 mind of Dr Guthrie when last week,. on the ocqa■sion of the opening iof a,, bazaar in aid ;of the .building fund of a newiFree. Church in Leith, he : addressed Hie assemblage, in ..the musicrhall Qn,ihe. subject of bazaars generally, • „...;., .;! ;v^' : , ,;''..... "Bazaars (said i)r. Guthrie). were j he thought; the happiest invehtum; of the present century, 'which was rich in inventions'.' Through^ means bf vt'azaars many people who had. time atid fmgersj''but"n6t money, to spare, were ableto 'contribute what was moneys! wbrth ; !tb /the good of mankind .and., the .glory/, of God; and thereby those who could not command money; but *periiaps:ski]l>an}l Jabpr,-: were put on the same platform ,as the rich. He had been infortriedyihat an Edinburgh clergyman hoi^pnce;;Kai the bravery to say in the pul^irfenß^s%as a blessing for :many4adies-in; Edinburgh* that they Shad some honest employment.!!'- He 'entirely concurred;Av\th-the] sentjmentj,- He .could not bear with those people who. sat reading ttie n^w^papers ; did fi&thifig Tiut prepare for and ! attend partieS, engaj^in >small talk, -to say nothing of Iscanda/?iOTit1 scanda/?iOTit who turned.; up thei^ii^tes of ffieir eyes and spoke of time in working for bazaars as an, runhqly. and, imprpper-... thing;; He had received, a'Jetjer the other day from a geiiililemari' 1 calling the Leitii bazaar 'an abom^natiqhj of- the. devil.' . , He thought objecfcibns'to' stfch' a scheme J as a bazaar .were _ founded ..on^pnre prejudice, just be•caiise i .iii. ; ww a s' ,sqinel;h^g (new.!' I ,' , '. " ! ' k It is indeed something new i;o hear a Scottish minister (preaching, the startling doctrine that' aniusemeht is ndt asiri.