Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-07-22
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A Sad Picture of New York First
Families.

Among our first families, the family
relation is very peculiar. Here is hus-
band who loves his wife so tenderly that
he keeps away from her as much as pos
sible. He is business man, and gets
home at midnight, or later, being detain-
ed down town by Office duties. What
blessed excuse that word business" is,
ard how like charity it does cover a null
titude of sins! Where are those business
men from ten p. M. until the little hours
of the morning set in What strange
stories might be told of that business
they are so often pleading as an excuse
for absence. These men have children,
but how much do they know of them p
When dothey see them? A glimpse, per-
haps, on Sunday.
The wife, on the other hand, has her
house with its fine furniture, its pictures,
its $1,000 piano, its equipage, ETC., every
thing but domestic delicity. The child
rem growup. They have no home. That
splendid dwelling has no domestic at
tachments. They wander off to the club
house, to Delmonico's and similar resorts
to find that cheer denied them under their
parents roof What relation do these
children bear to their parents? They
are simply nuisances. If daughters,
they are early instructed in the myste-
ries of fashion, and create an endless
drain on the purse, while il boys, they
are packed away to boarding-schools,
where the lessons of mischief find apt
scholars.
1t is wonderful to see how full of the
devil" these fellows get before they are
fourteen. What is the idea they enter
tain of mother? A woman that dresses
in fine clothes and sits chatting inthepar
! lor, while they are playing with the ser
want. What is their idea of father
1t is that of strange man of whom they
stand in fear, who appears once weeE
or so in the family. He is the "gover
nor" or the old man." He has money
and that gives him Importance, and tn,
great question is, how to tap his purse
money must be had. 1t may be coaxeC
out of mother, but the governor" is no
so easily managed. From him it mus
be obtained another way, and in tina
way it is obtained. What paterna
condition is this!
A man Of the world has brace o
more wild sons who are going to ruin a
fast as possible. They are his master
now, and money they will have. I knev
one Of these fellows to write to his fathe
thus: Z" l want you to send me 500 an
never ask me any questions" What 1
blissful relation do these hold towar
each other! The son ran through a.
manner of dissipation, was gambler,
rake, and drunkard and by enlistin
while in state of intoxication, died i
the service. lately asked one of thes
youths concerning his brother. "Don
know where Dick is" was the reply
"He had blow-up with the governo
and cleared out" He had not, howevt
gone off empty-handed, as the governor
diminished stock of governments" ca
testify.
One of these governors recently a
tempted to stop his sons late hours !
turning the key upon him. He nevt
: did this but once. The ingenious yout
pitched paving-stone through the pla
: glass window of the second story, al
this needed no repetition. The mex
night he was not locked out. Most (
these youths bring the governor into
treaty of neutrality with regular su
: sidy. Ny son." quoth one of the
I, governors to another, will have S2OC
a year. It's too much, / know, but VIII
!. can you do about it The boy
ruined, and you can't make him al
more So" When the boy has got his Q
lowance it is all right. The govern
sees him but seldom, and never interfer
with his schemes of pleasure. The b.
is on the go all the time-races, theatr
;. and gaming prove more fascinating th
r dull receptions and evening parties. Sc
eral grand balls were given the past wi
ter among the deD,imonde, and the chi
were found among our first young me
Occasionally one of these fellows g
: killed or commits saicide, and then the
is sensation in high life, but it is quit
ly forgotten. We do not expect an
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