The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-04-18
HARD TIMES IN HIGH LIFE.

/ lIi'lll j iduh l'site : N'ftlAsI
Ever since pa failed and pad twenty
cents on the dollar, we have been RI.
trencbing. You've no idea what an aw.
full thing it is. don't 90 why men
should fail aud retfench. I'm cure, bu,
they will It's ono OF those strange Gus.
! toms without reason Of novelty TO recon
mend II. I've thought 1t all over good
| deal, and talked about it, but there's only
ono explanation At all--hafd um9s
| / GU We 40 ides how dreadful IL Is to ui,
Hard times may b9 seyere on poor people
though | don't SEQ how they can tie, for
! poor people are used 10 thcm-but they
are perfectly awful, a. ! said, 70 US We
are not poor people by any means. IN
tho hrst place, consider how you
would get along with one lnir
Dire scr nud one maid after have
ing been brought u9 to two.
Fancy, If you can, what it j. g. wear ono
brooch nii winter and Lsyo people re-
marx That - here's tina. same diamond
on her lngcf yei That's where the
shoe pinches; ard speaking OF sLsgs, le,
me tell You that the suffering IN our fam
Ily thu. winter on account ot -h.Us would
draw taars from stone. Retrcnchmont
means waIring domestic boots 1T eight
b'iihitf h.t'A WtA'.i - ftllI's W lt''I lbAL
have been uscd b. imported French
boots al twenty dollar, the cup Of misery
is full. Take 1t all together ! dou thin
the poor have got 80 much g. cOmpla in
Of They cant know Whist it il to re-
trench. How can they they haven't
anything 20 retronch on There's Mary
Parker came here the other day and want
ed me, tor tho love Of mercy to help h3r
Ia l..
SEc worked in the family when / WAS
baby, bat she .oo!ishly got married year
ago. Says |, "Why, poor woman, its
perfectly ridiculous you talk Bs If w0
hadn't our crofs 70 bear Ga other pooplc.
lou must rctr.rcA. That's what we do.
Pa has stopped the rent Of his pew in Dr.
Busters church, and bad the gas meter
taken out Of the ca riagc house. nd makes
the girls IN the kitchen use kcrosene, and
cut Of the boguet woman, and stopped
the ice. Yes, indeed, we have 20 suffer 10
we'll as you do. but we don't run ebou.
making fuss over It. AS "a ssys, the
/ thing TO GO IL to stand VI % Il AMI re-
trench. Why my dear woman rays /,
/ getting quite warm, ".hcros plenty Of
money; II is wan. Of confidence tina,
/ makes the hard times That seemed TO
stagger her. We've got r. restore conf.
/ dencc before We can do anything else"
Then abe went on to cay that she was
about sick and hadn got coal TO keep be-
warm. Vel" says /, "thsrs precisely
the way with Us. Two been brough, u,
to have grAto ire in my sleeping room
day and night, but pa says this winter
that the register gives hcs. enough
Bu! ! coulln make that woman under
] a. las ,r,.in-. e,,tg.rnl -, a,1f
They are all alIlo-ihesc people. If yol
live in brown stone house, AID keep You
horses and eight servants, no power OF
earth will convince them tina. you suiici
from the hard times worse than they d.
! Id ike 70 see May Parker wear thos
shoes ths, BoncBteli sent mo yca
terday, Then the humiliation Of it
That's tho wors, %! il. Poor pa
no has taken h usirg u p!ai,
black cane, because, as be says,
gold-hcated stick isn't the Ghng in a tim,
Of general suffering. Nobody bu. III,
poor dear man will ever know wha. ths
-acrifce cost him. But its the SAME
thing ali through the house. Ma sht
took Off her plain gold spec,acles, and in
sisted on wearing plain black pail
whenever she drove out in tho park, ant
Charles consented to give up his cigar AT
tor dinner and bought so moerschsuu
and pound OF tobacco. Every time
90 into the billiard.room snd see tina
splendid fellow smoking his pipe with
acon,ri.e spirit, l say to myself or Celeste
"Ah poor boy, whS. he must suffer =
Celeste usually remarks, "Ah, yes but i
isn'ta circumstance 10 wha. no make
other people suffer Celeste does not
like tobacco. As Cor me- / don't stop I,
think If the tobacco at all; it's the mora
heroifm that attracts my attention.