Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — Where the Best Society Reigns. [ARTICLE]

Where the Best Society Reigns.

After all, in a city of a million and a half of people, what is society? This great center abounds in comfortable and happy homes,' where respectable men with money enough for all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life live happily, charmingly, inconspicuously. There are thousands of houses here to support which from SIO,OOO to $20,000 a year are none too much, in which reside merchants, brokers, editors, lawyers. There are also very many magnificent residences, better called palaces, in which live honest and intelligent people, who live reputable and domestic lives, spending from $50,000 to $150,000 a year, and there are others equally magnificent, in which live schemers, blackguards, liars and thieves, who, having fattened upon the misfortunes of their fellows, flaunt their wealth offensively in the faces of their poorer, but better, fel-low-citizens. Outside of these are hundreds of thousands of people who live quietly, whb are never seen in public places, who are modest in their ambitions, temperate in their living, church-goers, domestic, quiet, home people.—-Veto York letter.