The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-27
MODERN SOCIETY.
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you send for me, l tell you what my text
will be: "He that prOYideth not for his
own, and especially those of his own
household, is worse than an inhdel." In
this day God has mercifully allowed
those who have limited incomes to
make provisions for our families through
the great Life Insurance Companies all
over the land. By some self-denial on
our part we can make this provision for
those whom we shall leave behind us.
Is there any thing so helpless as a wO-
man whose husband has just died, when,
with her children at her back, she goes
out in this day to fight for bread? Shall
she become menial servant in some
one else's household? No; not the one
that has been lying on your arm all
these years, and filing the household
with joy and light. Shall she sew for a
living? God knows that they get but
three-pence and four pence for making
one garment. All, no! You had better
have your coffin made large enough to
take them all with you into that land
where they never freeze nor starve.
How man, with no surplus of estate,
but still enough money to pay the pre-
MUM on life insurance policy, can re-
fuse to do it, and then look his children
in the face, and say his prayers at night
on going to bed, expecting them to be
answered, is mystery to me that have
never been able to fathOm.
This extravaganza is becoming more
and more widespread. A statistician
has estimated that there are in New
York and Brooklyn four thousand five
hundred women who expend annually
81, 900 each in dress. 1t is no rare thing
when the wedding march sounds to see
dragging through the aisle a bridal
dress tlat has cost its $1,000 or ST.
500. Things have come to such pass
that when we cry over sin we wipe the
tears away with $3.50 pocket -handkeT-
chief. The tendency to extravaganza
was wonderfully illustrated when James
Fisk sent the bridal presents to the
home of William M. Tweed. Fisk sent
an iceberg of frosted silver, polar bears
of silver lying down on the handles, pc
lar bears of silver walking over the gold
spoons. There were in the house that
day forty silver sets of imperial mag
nificence. There was diamond set that
! cost $4,000. There was one dress that
| had in it thirty-seven yards of silk, with
three hundred and eighty-two bows
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were
expended on that scene. The reason we
| have not a multitude of scenes as eX'
| travagant is because we have not sc
much money.
This wicked extravaganza shows it
| self no more t0rclOly tnan on the rune
raj day. No one else seems willing tC
speak of it, so L shall speak of it. There
has been many a man who has died sol
vent, but has been insOlvent before he
got under the ground. One would thinl
that the two debts most sacred would bG
debts to the physician and the under
taker, since they are the last two debt:
contracted; and yet those two prOfes
sions are swindled more frequently thar
any other. In the agitation and the ex
citement the friends come, and they
want extraordinary attention, and they
want extraordinary expenditure, an(
then when the sad scene is passed neg
lect to make compensation. What ar,
those two professions to do under sucl
circumstances? If a merchant SELL
goods, and they are not paid for, l un
derstand he can reclaim the goods; bu
if man departs this life, and through
his friends Indebtedness is contracted
that is not met, there seems to be no re
lief, for the patient has gone off will
the doctors pills and the undertaken
white slippers. Greenwood, and Laure
Hill, and Mount Auburn hold TO-DAY
thousands of such swindles.
A man dies in the City of New York