The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-05
ExtraYagant Young Men.

EXtTaVagant Young Men.
What it costs a fashionable young
man to live is a grave question. We
mean over and above the reasonable
demands for clothing and board
the extra amount Of dress which
signifies display, and the extrava-
gance of living which does not como
under the head Of dissipation, not to
say profigacy. 1t will hardly do to
leave out a dress suit, for that is an
expenditure on the score of society,
which in the ordinary business of
life can be dispensed with. Begin
ming, then, with a dress suit, inclu-
ding gloves and the details of a
faultless toilet, q presentable full
dress suit of broadcloth costs from
seventy-fve to one hundred dollars.
A dress shirt, as it is called, five dol
lars; if embroidered, a dollar and a
half or two dollars extra. Fancy
collars and cuffs require an addition
al sum. The extravaganza in neck
ties run to a high rate. Gloves can
not be procured for less that two
dollars and q quarter, and boots are
at any figure, from twelve to twenty
five dollars. Some of our young
exquisites sport hem-stitched and
embroidered initial or monogram
linen cambria pOcket-handkerchiefs,
which are very expensive. The cost
of complete dress suit will thus be
seen to run up to one hundred and
odd dollars.
This regulation suit, in which the
margin for fashionable jcwelry has
not been censidered-is only the be-
ginning of embarrassment to a fash
iOnable young sprig. Surprising he
intends to escort a lady to a party,
he must hire u carriage at an ex-
pense of five or ten dollars, besides
feeling the driver for waiting two or
three hours later than the hour for
returning home. If tho opera is in
order, there are the tickets of admis-
sion for one or two nights vary ing
from ten to thirty dollars, including
/ carriage hire, and such delicate at
tentions as bequets, bon-bOns. and
ices.
Wines and games, running into
dissipation, not counted, the single
item of cigars is a heavy tax. Ia
king into consideration the fact that
the average salary of a young man
is twelve hundred dollars, how they
will defray the expenses of society
becomes very serious question
They must be eithor bankrupt in the
necessary expenses of living or in
its eXTavagances. In plain words,
they cannot be very well be honest
They must either defraud their land
lords and washerwomen or their
| tailors. Once in q while the evil
crops out in the police court in the
shape of embezzlement, but it often
er shows itself in prematurely old,
care-worn, broken down young men
without position or credit, and cut
off from all chances of future useful.
ness. Without going into the causes
of this fatal habit of extravaganza
in young men, we are satisfied it OK
ercises as baneful an effect upon
| good morals as the extravaganza
commonly ascribed to women. One
sex is quite as much to blame as the
other, and it is one of the first causes
IF degoneracy and decay. The aim
oft all is to set up a barrier between
the poor and the rich-to have, in
short, an aristocracy of wealth, and
! were it not for the fortunes constant
ly changing hands from the rich
and extravagant to the industrious
and prudent, the stability of repub-
lican institutions would be destroy
ed.-IndianapOljs journal.
A verdant Pennsylvania youth had
for q friend somebody's sister, who
was the fortunate possessor of six
gold fish. With the gracious per-
mission of his "charmer' he went
trout fishing a few days since and
caught a fish of that species which
weighed a little over a pound. He
preserved it alive, thinking it would
be a nice engagement present, as
companion for her gold fish. On re-
turning home he hurried to the house
of his would-be father-in-law and
deposited his prize IN the aquarium
''un the quiet" IN order that it
might be a pleasant surprise 10 his
afianced. The surprise was more
than complete, for the trout swal-
lowed all the gold fish and then
calmly turned over on its dorsal
head and died of indigestion. The
young lady has discharged her lover.
Young men take seasonable warn
ing.
A drunken Irishman, on being
told that his incorporate habits
would soon make his poor wife a
widow, was quite affected, and ex-
claimed, "Och, faithl it I'D make me
the wretchedest man in the wur-rid
to see poor Mrs. Coons a widder!"