Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Hard Times Affect Society. [ARTICLE]

Hard Times Affect Society.

Young clubmen in New York are complaining not a little of the loss of many good dinners, which helped to eke out their small incomes so comfortably of yore; and fashionable married couples are enjoying a Darby and Joan sort of existence which may or may not be acceptable. The great lack of dinners this winter in New York is most striking, and the traveling Englishman has fallen upon evil days indeed. “I was told that your people were so extraordinarily hospitable,” said a newly arrived Briton the other day, “and that I should be asked to dine somewheie every night, but I have been asked out only a couple of times, although I have presented all my letters and have been in New York for the last ten days.”