The daily gazette., 1875-09-03
SOCIETT OF The DAT
women at tho Bottom Of it!
Extravagance.

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The London Tines says in AZ article
on English society of to day,
1t must always be with pain and
delicacy and hesitation that we make
any allusion 20 those who are sunnosed
to be the less able to defend themselves
aud the more under just authority, as
well, 1t must be added, as also I've most
81. ned against. But one remark ms:
be made. Even on the most superficial
survey OF society, whether in the great
furnace OF the metropolis or the lesser
fires Of provincial and rural life. who
can shut his eyes to the lar entable
lacS that the geatler and kinder SIX
nave very great deal To do with that
oo'Rdless and ruinous cXtrlyaranrr
winch introduces all tie vices and
disables all Inc Vntnes, even - decay
and extinction, 1t may be The npces.
sity or duty of some To pend nriucrIy
fortunos III prin"rly pamp a.d luxury.
II so, they are only tn he pilicd for Tie
hlhenitY oi doing II PtaC.Inlly, aud
redccmiug m4tctitl waste. with u.rs.u.
al Itfnemeht. Eat in This ~. Il town.
ana tach season more than The Last
there are taou- inls aud tnnis,l..i.
who are m1nIlrztly sp-ndIny f,r morc
than Their circumstances wlli ,ilnw.
For very much ut lhls deep. Wild.
spread, and slIll spreading ttil thc
women are ansWcIAble, IL - They
who dress NJ rate lar beyond their
income, they who insist upnn the best
houses III the best neiehb1ihood. they
who must have cquipagcs tor All uses
times aud places they who cannot
abatc their manifold requirements,
even when the lamlly increases anil
noblcr cares should take tho place of
childish things, OF course the men
h"ye their beSetting sins and their pct
. .extravaA Ances, sometimes very cost,
and they have often the still greater
fault OF not explaining their pecunisry
affairs to their wives with msnly can
dor OF common business-like accuracy.
They do not make the wife confdant
and fellow counsellor. B,4t there can
be 40 doubt that in C. great majority
of houses the lady knows quite enough
to see, with very little reflection,
that she is driving her husband aud
family into straitness and emba7rass-
ment, Nth the risk of ruin,
People must have very many aad
very good acres az very good invest
ments indeed, to be able to spend
often the rental OF good estate in
single entertainment, q dressmaker's
or an upholsterer' bill, house at
fashionable watering place, prolong-
cd Continental tour, a necklace, or
some other toy. Iet women are such
creatures of rivalry end display that
they cannot help sort of triumph
over those who are less fortunate or
less spirited, aud so arc continually
foremost to intiame pernicious rival
ry, What can their husbali do
They submit, perhaps. They sulk,
perhaps. They more commonly cast
about Tor ways and means, and, as
they hear and learn more, they are
more apt to take counsel from despair
and give themselves mp to the stream
in which they are floating helplessly.
They cannot lie worse than they are
they may be better. So they specu
late, that is, they gamble, They soon
find they are victims, and set it down
to their simplicity or ecruples. BY
and by they make tue discovery thai
in such an affair 1t is better to be at
the head than at the tail better 10 be
on the right side of the wall, better
to be in the ring than an outsider. So
they press inwartls, give aud tal lse con
fdences, and in time arc millionNires,
or bankrupts aud exiles.