Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-28
PARASITES WHO PREY
Upon the Men of Millions Who Are
Hampered with Riches.
1t LIS Easier for a Camel to Get
Through the Needles Eye than
for Rich Man to Enjoy
His Wealth
T"Gathn in Cincinnati Enquirer.l

Very rich people have demands on their in
come as regular and uninternittent as poor
people. 1t is always as your day, SO shall
your strength be- The servants have to be
paid as regularly in rich house as in poor
one. The rich man is charged for the same
meat several times as much as the plain man
pays. I once knew man here over period
of years, and when I first met him his wife
cooked the food for the entire family and the
visitors in order to save the terrible expense
which the gentleman was mourning in great
lawsuit. He had to entertain lawyers and
politicians unnumbered. Time passed along,
his suit was gained, and I found he was pay
ing 81 a pound for beef. 1t seemed to me to
be good beef, but hardly as good as l paid
% cents for when l went myself to the
butcher. He had steward to buy all
this and the stewards slice is the best thing
in the beef
Expenses mount enormously in proportion
as men go upward in the social scale. A man
with fine house must not open a poor bottle
OF wine in it. Wines are graded, like dia-
monds, and the moment you leave the plain
and ordinary you go into the realms of the
Infinite. Fine brands of Burgundy, Rhine,
or even sherry, will run up into $50 case.
The making Of presents in very rich houses is
great feature Many of these people you
see riding around in the morning hours are
merely choosing presents for each other. You
have the eldest son of duke at the house,
with his wife, and there is no walking to be
done, and what is given must be of the high
est. There are not many men in New York
who can afford to entertain on any general
scale, but give dinner with the greatest
care, and make it an event.
Besides, the harpies who follow rich men
here are innumerable. Some OF these harpies
are the best bred persons you can find, often
above the breeding of the rich family. One
of them is the picture-buyer. He has a deli
cate way of making you feel that you are an
ass at the very best, but that you are bar
barian if you do not buy according to his
taste. A little thing of picture, when you
are poor man, may cost you $50 to 500.
When you become rich every picture that
goes into your house without much CORE
spending Improvement in quality, will go UP
into the thousands. 1t has been said that the
picture-buyer for the Vanderbilts abroad
must have made enough money to retire on
for the rest of his days. Yet he was the only
person connected with those pictures who
probably knew anything about their merits.
He had the true enjoyment of selecting the
pictures and appeciating them, and that he
could sell to nobody.
Your broker can also be a very fine harpy
l have seen brokers here not very much founC
in public places whose pedigrees were very
good. Sometimes your broker will be The
son of some dead rebel general, keeps his
moustache elegantly trimmed, and can enter
tain the ladies superbly and show them how
to dine. When the rich man drops into hi
office it is no mere brute that is to be dealt
with. A distingue broker has a delicate way
of looking at you when you give him a small
order, and sense OF dignity when you Civ,
him big one, but hardly ever fails to i'm
press you. You beco me afraid in his presenc
to make any small turn in stocks, and yet 70,
| cannot escape him, for it is his business t.
cultivate you and make you spend money il
his Office.
Then there is the social parasite, Away
hanging around the rich man and letting hin
in, as II it were great privilege, to sub
scription list for a party, a ball or series o
sociables. These things will cost 500 pc
head for the necessary features; and the
there viii be little side subscriptions of some
thing for this and that miss-for this or tina
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