The Worthington advance., 1876-06-22

for manure and. max .l1i eepsWash. si,
and in the other docks s 1ondOn Con.
demned goods are burr led until they
are partly rotten,. whey teey y.1re dug
up and sold as man,tre R2esiblys some
one will find out for tie Cnsto ,house
authorities som6 more moderates use
than the fields for the wonderful as.
sortment that her Majesty consumes
in her pipe. !; i
Better is an Handful in Quiet
Some years ago a sanguine man
prophesied that eventually everything
would be accomplished by the simple
turning of crank. Dinners, new
clothes, drives, the semi-annua house.
cleanings, the weekly washings and
ironings. and even the darned stock.
ings, all brought about by an easy turn
of ones elbow! The idea opens up IN
endless vista, in which refined loafing
and enchanting comfort walk hand in
hand. 1t is painfully evident, how
ever that between the present day and
that far-off time of perfected laziness
lie broad fields in which armies of
homekeepers may still find active en-
plOyment,- crank era being only
family f0reshad0wed in the general
tendency to accomplish more work
and better work with less combustion
and destruction of blood and muscle
than in the old days. There will come
a time, surely, when we will not all
work ourselves to death! And the
dawn of that golden age ought to be
already lighting the east. The bust.
ness of living-for everyday workers
demands to be simplified. Joke as
we may in this Centennial year over
the ''simplicity of our forefathers, -
there was Il simplicity. sweet and
honest, in those old lives and those
old homes, that we-with our cheap
complications-are poorer and meaner
for having lost. Heaven forbid that
| should rail at wealth and the regal
ways in which it has liberty to conduct
itself Living always in state-though
it appears a little tiresome from any
humble standpoint of no carriage, no
wine.cellar, no giving of vast dinners
is, without doubt, highly endurable.
What seemed uncomfortable is the pitia-
BILE struggle to initiate these wealthy
ones. The desire to "keep up appear.
ances'-the very phrase has a mock.
ing sounds disease that s0urs and
kills the lives of men and women in.
tended by nature to live to serene old
age. One ought to be as much ashamed
of it as he would be ashamed of
Septennis Psoriasis!
Appearance" can't be kept up
The skeleton of Restricted Means is al
ways thrusting his comfortable bones
into view, announcing that everything
is sham.
1t is the unhappy class between the
independently rich and the indepen-
IDENTIFY poor who suffer from this ma
lady of appearances" To look *'gen-
teel'' in the eyes of their wealthy
neighbors, and to inspire proper feel.
ing of awe and respect in the poor
beneath them, is the spirit that one
sees manifested with shining excep-
tions throughout this misguided por.
ton of society. And yet we-the mis-
guided-might be so happy suffer
ing neither the weighty cares and re-
sponsibilities of the wealthy, or the
depressing deprivations of the down.
right poor
To begin with our houses instead
of blistering" them, as Howells
would say, with bay.windows and
ruf1iing and anticipating them with
all sorts of cheap architectural TOM
foolery,-cheap in effect, but other
wise costly,-why not have; plain
houses, and spread them out instead Of
building them one story above the
other? Doesn't it seem, on calm re-
Election, as if there might be room
enough on this big, round earth f6t
every one to have something beside
mere "standing room"! Room enough
for every one to live on a '.first floor, )"
with a noble tree or two to look out
upon, and grateful little stretch Of
timothy and clover in which the babies
might roll and tumble, and come up
smiling from their second summers I
I know of no more suggestively sad
ht,-short of the little white hearse
and it's attendant string of carriages,
than these ''stylish" houses, three
stories in height, that elbow each 9TH
er across a dividing space of 5 feet,
and embrace possibly an emaciated
rose-bush in front, and the clothes
dryer and bit of brick pavement in
the rear :! Pattern houses without
individuality, or sentiment, or mean
ing of any s0rt-that crowd the child.
rem into the street, make Of the father
a respectable galley.Slave minus
chain and ball-who devotes his whole
life to hard labor within the prison.
gates of his shop or counting.room,
and of the mother a jaded, nervous,
early-old woman,-the natural result
of trying to be housekeeper, nurse,
seamstress, and faithful devotee to
society, all at the same time. These
houses are not built simply with the
object of home the furry, and worri-
ment, and overwork with which they
are kept up is something. not demand
ed by the real needs: of moderately
circumstanced families They are
built because Smith, and Brown, and
Thompson, and Robinson have such
houses, and they are furnished and
maintained not in accordance with
individual tastes and individual means,
but in accordance with the tastes and
means Of Robinson, Thompson, Brown,
and Smith. The result is, existence,
privately and socially, is:kept up with