Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1873 — The Passion for Display. [ARTICLE]

The Passion for Display.

The middle classes spend their income .in keeping: up false appearances. They, too, must wear dove-colored pantaloons and shiny boots. They must wear diamond studs and seal rings, and carry young ladies to the opera, in hired carriages, at the rate of three'hours’use for three days’ wages. They must take a turn now and then at billiards, Stand treat to the cocktails, bet upon their veracity when called in question, and, last of all, lest they should be deemed timid, must ‘demonstrate their nerve by “fighting the tiger,” until it claws the las't dime out of their pockets, ancfftlaws lasting scratches upon their souls.® The only safeguard against vice is work ■„ not work as the slave, who works to eat and eats to work, but work te reach a higher plane of effort, not only of the body but of the mind—work, whatever!*may be, whether for a day, a week,* month, or a lifetime, honestly and cheerfully, as one who ex pects to contemplate his results forever.J?r. Holland. —The Boston papers appeared in Arab costume after the fire—that is to say, they were covered with the Burn news. - »