New-York daily tribune., 1853-12-15
THE MORAL USES OF LUXURY.


him where object he s'es ehess his boorhnes II upon
the soer carpet on Il and nc will th1k twice before he e
to Go ii s"-lSr@'ag ne Rer Mr. B2o' IN the C'g'al
This is excellent Carpets and satin chairs by all
and everything else in keeping Elegant wife, smiling
Pleasantly above flowing drapery Of French silk inter
estng children romping in brilliant cashmeres like bed
tulips tcssed by summer breeze best West of England
broadolcth on our own back and gentlemany
consciousness of clean lnen-may add these gures
to the picture Then, too, good dnner every day
family box at the opera infinite credit with the jewelers.;
fest horses and in the way Of equpage nothing less
spetsble than gg-as much this certainly relieve
tie rosewood chairs Of downright snobishness Allow
also TO spuate for Gothic ut Nahant and Newport
from heat and elnu snd granite palace Broadway
Beacon ST. for the solid part Of the year Books old and
new pictures and atuary cabinets OF minerals fossils and
shsdo say that these may be included IN the inventory
Now who in the world unreasonable enou "a to turn up
his all this Cannot everybody to become
Christians these terms If there be Churches in New
York whore such Gope this is dispensed they ought
teIe very generally reored TO- if pew rent is within the
bounds reason Think twice before they spit upon the
carpet" Believe they will think many three
times before they do it. would ike to see the that
would be capable of the ndecency If the satin and
wood chairs have been forthcoming hitherto because
benevolent persons who had medtated donating them in
large lots to humanity had been apPrthensve that they
would be whitfield, let tho Apprehension subside | will
agree find become responsible take and pay for
every chair that gets mutlated in the cause
an not disposed to undcrrste the value Of this arrange
ment as moral discipline would not shrink from it
myself with the same repugnance that would from martyr
DOM Ifspoees Of it ready to go forth whtt bless
ings could almost insure them to be very severely
stoned Who win object TO the experiment being made at
oncel If the ten thousand proessed thieves Of London
could be furnished with nice clothes and good dinners they
would not demean themselves by stealing food If the
drunkards and rans of the Five Points could each 90
nightly in their coach to the opera believe they
would be moro decent neighbors If Young Ireland re
turning at night from excavating railroad could
change his spade and muddy brogan for slippers dress
inggown. and TIE NE York Tribune he would be ap. to
crego the diversion of breaking his first cousins wiies
brothers head Hitherto the Gospel has to US in
questionable shape as to be Little attractive to flesh and
blood but who will be found demented refuse
seat in the Kingdom of Heaven when it is made of
wood and satin
Now let turn ourhoughts to the practical application Of
this method the boorsness and uncivizaton about
As Mrs Glass begins her famous recipe fer cooking hares
with First catch your hare, practical direction in this
would begin First get your carpets and satin and
wood chairs II happens that is the very first step that
co' How shall come by the requisite quantity OF these
articles of furniture Ay there's the rub The world does
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rosewood chairs Nneenhs of the race never get to the
question whether they shall have Wilton Brussels
They occupied exclusively with the Bread problem
quite large portion of them even with the elementary
one of potatoes
II is humiliating fact to us-lords Of creaton-tha
though fox has sot and rich fur another though
the hair and trim OF lions name is substantially like
anothers though every lobster at the bottom of the bay
aoundeis about among the small fish in green shell the
type of obserian beauty since the world began what the
learned councils OF talos and mlners in Paris agree
upon and prescribe the standard of elegance and ines
in dress must be for er beyond the presumption of
oriy of the human compelled go about in sheep
skins and uncouth wCcens os for the dandes priv
legged sport before their dazzed eyes the forms Of ideal
grace Ii with the carpets and chairs in question
They lie wholly out OF the range Of the economics Of
mutiudes Of men You might well suggest helps TO-
ward moral culture ample stock in solvent banks and cof
ers stored wil California double eagles IL salvation
not be effected benches and bare floors fear will be
provision sufficiently exclusive sui: the theology Of the
most dismal theorists of the Divine Providence 1t pos
sbe that the airy philosophy of r Harold skimpoe may
be able to sail buoyaniy the difficulty Ny
heavily pnionCd Our GScouragement il not materially
abeted by the consideration that carpets much
abundant than they were generation agO-almcst prom
se to form basis Of universal household comfort For
along with this fact cannot fail to see that the stand ard
Of elegance and luxury has rapidly advanced the Rich
leading rather distancng the Poor in shts Of exirsv
agsnce in building equpage and apparel that the dis
parity Of social condition widens every year Nay there
shade of sheer envy this matter and from
the contempt with which people kick carpets and
chairs when every body else has possess those Of
Ike pattern scarcely avoid the suspicion that was
the distinction Of these luxues than either their
fort moral influence that coveted all along Since
then the Poor compete with the Rich in this con
test for iuxuythe sPecs, comfort they struggle for
ing iHo bitterness and disgust in with the supe
ror OF their favored comprehensive rosewood
chairs only possible when they have become dsrepuaby
unfsshionabS i the sAtusry grace OF Luxury be
be applied to the classes standing most in need Of il It
20 have been considered hitherto that L might De
APPLIED riasoss- -Lus the luxury possessed BY me, the
moral refinement Of shed Ike an efgence upon twenty
osker looking n. 10 be seated in the satin chair
twenty chaps wooden benches pockeing their jack
knives und violent moral restraint at tie sight 20 stand
upon the Brussels eaFpesx families separated from me
BY bricks and mortar to abstain from splitting upon their
bare foors Of derence 20 t. TO cat capital dinner
Etetn hungry at the window sniff the odors and
wholesome moral exhaetons Of The vands This rasbod
has the sanction Of pres ard mmemoral usace bit lt
not he lee med oyucalf pronounce that has
psoduced the desirable est have supposed that tho
sTecieele rGlae the Ilh Av with is stately cut
~dcors where the srisike curves and angles Of hard
granite TEL lcug story OF expensive, taste and labor
Vheie external beauty that aIrCs The eye q suggestive Of
internal spiendors that oplress the Imagination wouf
have 70 say iho least complex moral .aluenos uDou
6taut u noudy cellar Ia the Five Points that be oui
te ccUea CT mlddlred by he obusige aielness Of tbs
sauc.uie 60 noi believe thar the owner OF Ds-,,,.