The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1853-12-08

him. HIS employer won't nave hlm 10
wait upon customers unless he dresses
neatly and even genteelly. In such case
there is no holp for him. He must lay
aside his old coat before it is half worn
out. It is one of the misfortunes of his
business, which he would have done we'll to
have estimated before entering upon it.
All he can do is, to exercise his shTewd-
ness in keep up as fair an outside as pos
sible The young professional man must
90 before his patrons dressed a good deal
more expensively than either his wish or
his private judgment would dictate. But
fortunately Society has blind side al
ways. If it makes the clerk or young
doctor wear finer coat than his good
old father will consent to, it does not O.
blige him to be fop, or to live in costly
quarters. Let him, then, when he brings
his willing offering to Fashion, be sure
not to lay farthing more on the altar
than is required, nor to deck his sacrifice
with garlands which are not down in the
order.
But in a great many points, Fashion
(or Society, as sensible people prefer to
call this tyrant,) makes demands which
no Yankee can honestly admit. AS when
it says that you, good bachelor reader,
must not marry till you can give your
wife handsome Turkey carpet fol her
yarlor floor. 1t may be very good rea-
SON why you should decline to take some
certain Miss whom you have been dream
ing about lately, but when you find the
maiden who is ready to go into partner
ship with you, not as silent partner, but
as an active business member of the firm,
who will be satisfied with three-ply or
even ingram, until your salary can afford
more costly floor covering, if you have
any of your fathers blood in you, turn
Fashion out your tent and take the girl to a
clergyman's at once. When you are mar
ried, Fashion may tell you to furnish your
rooms as you can't afford to furnish them.
You want to rise in the world, and if you
ever expect your friends to help you, you
must be able to invite them to home OF
which they will not be ashamed to enter.
If really you can make it pay in bus
iness way, why go ahead; make the in
vestment. But don't be deceived. We
will wager you the price of all your fuel
for the year, that your grand acquaint-
ances, your friends who call in their car
riages, will cost you more than they will
ever come to. They will encourage you
with words, but they will keep clear e.
nough of your store. They will fatter
you on your prospects, but a spurious
shilling will buy all the practice they will
give you until you get rich enoug b not to
need their aid; then, indeed, you will
have enough of them. 1t would be good
economy to cut the whole of them. Those
who stand on level with yourselves
require of you that part of your
house-the parlor at least-should be
fitted to their taste. As their tastes and
yours agree, it will be easy to suit them
But don't knuckle to society too much;
it isn't creditable to independant people
If your big acquaintances choose to call
in spite of your lack of preparation, let
them; but, at the best, they will prove
costly luxurious, and of no great service
Young America has set down his foot
that neither John Bull, the Austrian, mol
any other body, shall presume with impu
nifty upon any improper liberties. Why
should Young America consent to be or.
dercd about like a slave by Fashion
which is ten times as presumptuous as
England; or by Society, which is just a
bout as reasonable as Austria? If the
young will have Fourth of July at theil
house over these grievances, they will
find the rigor of the times marvelously
softening, and their annual salarie;
stretching much further into each sue
ceeding year than now.