Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — True, True! Times Will Change. [ARTICLE]

True, True! Times Will Change.

Twenty years ago, if a private gentleman had taken up a public print and seen his house laid bare, the names of ilis private friends and what they were regaled with in his dining-room warmed up for public pfelate, he w6uld hate asked satisfaction from the editor wnd dared to take such liberties with his household gods as to set then! up for a publie show. A man’s hoxise was t then his castle. There was a feudal spirit in the home, pervading good society. It is no longer so. A man’s house is the public’s. All may gaze at his pictures, see his plate, count his dishes, enumerate his servants, and report pride lists of his wines. There is nothing hid from the publicity thereof. Hid! Who desires to live the private life? What is the thing expected? Editors are expected to give the finishing touch to the entertainment by a swelling notice in the next day’s paper,' and columns of such matter would not be too much for those who attend to read. Vanitas vanitatum. Twenty years ago, had a gentleman seen his sister’s name printed in full as Miss So-and-so, of Such-and-such street (oh, vulgar of vulgar), he would have settled with the editor in very short, if not sharp, fashion—but now I Nothing mere pleases a charming young lady than to see herself in print; to hear herself described an tout personelle, in detail, even to the hair of an eyebrow or the curve of a nostril.— Boston Transcript.