DRESS. 127

Did God give you hands to injure or
wound any of the creatures he has made ?

Take “care of your hands, then, my
children! Take care that the hands which
God has given, do nothing that God dis-
approves.

Dress.

There is nothing in which mankind dis-
play more caprice, than in dress ; and it is
curious to remark, that this caprice is most
conspicuous in the more civilized countries.
In London and Paris, the fashions of dress
change every year, and in some things, every
few weeks. There is a new style of bonnet
in Paris almost every month.

But in China and India, and indeed over
all. Asia, the fashions of dress are unchange-
able. _The people now wear almost exactly
the same garments, of the same colours and
the same forms, as were in use a thousand
years ago. The Chinese gentleman of our
day probably has almost the same appearance
as one of the age of Confucius.

The country people of Europe, generally,