The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-07-13
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To To short Of funds is sometimes
sort of fashion We have lived - -ee
tim when II has b. en- considered what
!, ;,ruc! good fun - be little
ImpccunIuus. Whenever there is
sudden c'ilnp e Il iuc mes III the
I sliinaabie world, The opportunity is
soiLed by many people, who have in
reality been hard mp for years, t. admit
their neediness Trey thus get off the
more easily. rs they are not singular in
their adversely. Ii they have TO reduce
their display and lower their s,andard
Of entertainments, 50 have their neigh
bors. Again. some people who canhot
be said to be really hard up are glad Of
an tXcuse for curtailing their expeu-
ditures. At such times we suspect that
many men deceive their wives as well
as the public. The happy man WHO
has married Il charming and beautiful
woman, with enlarged ideas rs to "hlw
things ought to be DONE" has some
times occasion to hail with satisfaction
such catastrophe. for Instance. rs fall
IN the value of government securities
He has tho merest tritle invested In
stocks of this description. and their de-
pIcci,tion causes him no rorceptible
Inconvenience. but he is able to say
with truth that hc has lost money in
bonds He makes this m excuse for
various economic,l proceedings. aud
thus panic in ,tocks bccomts source
OF actual wealth TO hir. There is really
no end TO the uses Of adversely, real or
imaginary. If the thing is juiiciou,ly
managed. A false reputation Of having
lost money makes a man 10 certain
extent richer. Less will be expected
ot him in the way of enter tsinmeBt and
display. aud tho parson will let him off
more cheaply in the matter of parochiai
subscriptions He will have golden
opportunity of selling q house or horse
that he does not like. or of getting rid
Of an overbearing upper servant. .or
even Of breaking up his establishment
altogether and enjoying an agreeable
tonr abroad Indeed, one Of the rec
ognised forms OF mendicaucy in these
latter days appears 10 be to spend the
winter in the tropics in steam yacht
So long as we ourselves are exempted
from its influence. We can look with
calm satisfaction Oh the prevailing scar
city of superfuous cash. When there
were so many rich people IN the world
that fine houses could not be bull,
quickly enough for them. morslists be-
gan to lament the extravagant luxury
OF the age. comparing our times to
those Immediately preceding the fall Of
the Roman empire. We imagine that
when these moralists see TO be let fur
nished posted up in tho windows of go
many houses they must reflect with sat
isfaction that, If excessive prosperity is
sign Of falling empire. our day of
destruction is STAYED off for while.
That the meditations OF trad-smsn are
not quite so agreeable We can we'll nm
derstand. For ourselves. we must sd
matt tka, when We are told there is going
TO be bad season, We are not heart
broken. 10 the worst of Seasons there
is as much dissipation as any reasonable
person can desire. and agreeable society
is as Pleasant in bad as a good season. i.
In first rate season, as II il termed,
entertaining ard being entertained is ,
pain rather than a pleasure. ard IN
stead Of epjoying themselves at any
friends house, people are always want
ing To hurry Of to somebody else's; but
in bad season society is little less
Irrational than usual We do not think
it would he matter for regret if mod
Grafton in expenditure were TO extend
beyond the season. II people generally
were a little "hari up" they might per-
haps look around them and discover
that there are other interests and
amusemen,s in the world besides trying
10 find ou, how much money can be los,
over one race, how many brace of grouse
or thousands of phcasanis can be killed
in day. or how many hunters one man
cah knock ~ ia a week.