The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-05

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This is an expensive age. Our richest
men began with mere notning put thclr
cation. Chester w. Chapln, one OF the
richest men in Massachusetts,, when
he was twenty-one yearsold let himself
out TO work twelve to fourteen hours
day for Slz q month. farming and team
ing from the armory 70 tne poets on
the ConnectlcGt niveri put ne iaia ms
money up: NOW you wouio Insult
young stnPhnS U elS1geen years W
oner MIN sucn wages: ne was inc Lax
Collector IN 1877 Tor the town OF spring
heid, bis ices were soO Ior couecting
To,OVO-tne wno:e taAes ior tna1 yn- 'Cwn.
ne pays m0re taAIs nov than ..e wnoi9
to"h oio sIen'.l coss nore Ilne Ano
GraVet 70 cotioct, theni tne. tnan oN a1".
Inc people were so scatteIf,ng ana Iney
were so aHaid OF lax Cohector, ne
SAID. some would run ana hide up STAIRS
or downnceila when they saw HIM
coming, and in some instances he
hunted them up in their hiding-places
after their family SAID they WASN'T
there! After nnding the delinquent
ne would get Part OF the tax money
ana go again 1or tne resi- or pay IL nim-
self: he mas Pa'd IN TINS way hundreds
Of dollars. hndng lt easier 20 earn the
money than 60 coilecs II. Money was
scarce and worth something then.
recollect in 1928 or 20, in our town
meeting. the proposition was to raise
for the coming year $4,000 Tor the
town OF Springheld' Oiiver b. MOTHS
arOaa and 0blactad nv Savln0. stWhat
are we coming tor IL Is astonishing
that Pride ana amoitlon' or 1asnlon
should demand such q TAX; But tney
see pride. fashion and ambition rise
much higher. A great change surely.
The fashion in those days l recoliect
When my mother was going to get
new dress. or gown. as it was called
then, the woman that was engaged to
come to the house to cut and make 1T
told her she was, so tall and large she
must get six yards for It, Five yards
| was q common pattern. and fifty cents
for cutting and making and a dinner
found. What change from thai day
to this! The cloth cost 81 ana the
making nifty CENTS ana the dress was
worn to meeting Ihe iashion and pay
OF the preachers mas changed. Ihe
first Methodist preacher IN our town got
$1OO Tor one year 8 salary, and II ne had
| present OF q pair OF socks he must re-
port 1t. The second preacher had
wife, and got Sl5O. The third preacher
had q wife and three children, and $50
was added for each chiid. bshop he'd
ding in our time got less than 80
year. Also Priest Clough and Lorenzo.
Dow less than either Our old Meth
| odist preachers worked Tor living and
for God, instead OF q reputation and .
salary. ei.a. aai. gsm. .ti
was thinking about the fashions in
domestic affairs, say music. hfty-hve
years ago. Governor sIrask and met
at Monson for uhanksgiving: with the
family where ne got MS wne-at old
Uncle Saul Squires', uncle to us both.
Their house music was, Tor treble, the
tax spinning,wbeei: played or run oy
one OF the g1ris; for the tenor. the large
spinning-wheei, played by another girl;
for bass, the Old LADY whacking away at
the oidloom, all working to make their
music ProhtaDie ana heaithy Inc
fashion OF those days was to- have q
good, healthy family OF from eight TO
ten children all learnt TO work Tor q
living what q chanSe! instead OF
good, healthy iamIy now, All up IN the
morning early TO work. we see from one
to three little pimping children, with q
sickly mother, not able to take care OF
two as easily as our mothers would ten,
fifty years ago, without hired girL
The children now must be IN fashion
be in bed until eight or nne IN the
morning, no appetite, little vitality.
They play on some kind OF instrument,
and go to school to be crowded with
more kinds OF f9Iless1ns, than our old
school teachers ever knew: But this is
the fashion and pretended Improvement
Eof the age. Perhaps this generation
does not look at these things as LIDO.
but I think that health. economy and
morality are not improved by getting
high wages or q fashionable education.
This generation will spend what its
fathers have earned. Generally 1t is
watching the pulse OF the man who has
property, longing. for the time to come
when it will come in possession of what
it has not earned. 1t is known fact
that the rising generation are spend
thrifts. s',. = 81 E9e sfstss.S 1.a, ts.t
| Annth0r GREAT chance Ia in the mode