Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1856-03-13
Living Tee Fast.

Living Tee Fast.
Although we live in an age of Telegraph
and Railroads, Of Lightning presses and
steam, yet there is such thing as ''living
too fast" Our attention has been called
during the past week to an item going the
rounds, headed "Boston Extravagance." !"
It states that one house in Boston imports
every year one million and half dollars
worth Of artificial flowers and lace. In
addition there are many houses in New
York city, Boston and Philadelphia, who
do business in this line to the amount Of a
half million each. Not week passes
without = paragraph stating that Mr.. So
and Sos Dry Goods bill for the year is so
many thousand dollars-and we may add
that in hand with such notices, 60 others,
aGiled."
The eager desire for gain, the ''inces-
SAINT and Sabbathless pursuit of wealth,
and the still greater desire of squandering
i has become the reigning passion Of
Americans. Hence, grown up throughout
the country, but more especially in our
largo cities, scottish aristocracy. whose
God is mammon and fashion and pleasure,
have lost sight Of truth and virtue.
In New York city, liveried servants res
pond to the summons of wealthy lords,
their carriages are emblazoned with coats
ef anss you would search for in vain, in
the books of herahry, and thousands stolen
from the honest poor are squandered upon
the backs Of senseless women. No won
der that provisions are high, and money
scarce, when one house in Boston en-
gulphs million and half annually for ar
tifcial flowers. Extravagance has come
upon the energies of American people and
bids fair to enervate them- ''The lust Of
the flesh and the lust of the eye, and the
pride Of liie.' y are sinking the ship of State.
Let the American people give this surplus
Ithousands to the honest poor instead Of to
the '.gew-gaw'' establishments of the East;
| let them build school houses instead o1
costly palaces, let them sleep at night and
attend to their business by day, instead ol
tshcrtniag their lives BY nocturnal frolics
asd aRernoon maps, lea them learn that
swisdom IS more to be desired than gold, =
and we may reasonably hope that ere long
intellectual pursuits and elevated senti
ments will take the place of this sickenine
chase after folly, nonsense, and ''arti6cia
flowers!'' 5 '''-'..' p ..., 8.
Again we say that Eve are living toe
fsst," ," not only in relation to the fashion o
the day, but In our business. Small capi
ftal and unlimited credits, are running thou
sands. n the pursuit Of gold men forge
Ithe very first principles, and their haste L
laccumulate leads them to ruin. Young
| Ameficanism is rampant in the country
I2:4O has been changed to 2:27, and snob
ism rules the day. These things will con
ttinue, iust 80 long - society makes none!
Tho kuage Of character; just so long as j
lis better to Be rich than to be learned, t
1 have money than to have common sense
I Luxury, venality and corruption rarel..
fovertake country in the first century o
I rs existence and in childhood, our Youns
I fAmsrica has contracted the vices an
|iesiines of Old age. Tho vulgar ostentatio1
lof our cities, tie frauds in business, tn
-fbaseness Of politics, the crimes Of "UPpe
4 tTeadom," III can be traced to this error {
! lthe sge, this headstrong folly Of the centu
:. n, s.living too FAST. .'-Morehouse Advocate
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Try Agaia To-sorror.-Few men, Q
J woassn, no satisfied with the present. 7
sluose screens, 100 10 The time Of darE
& ness or ldif6ealty, which they hope som