The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-01-26
American i" Society
Bo>toa Transcript


 II the value oi aovels ,o pos,euly ,s pictures they preserve ci the SoSlal hic oi the tunes they delineaie. It may iairly be questioned whether oui descendants ~ill obtain very accurate notions ot Amet,Can manners ln the year of our Lord 1884. rom some recent hcticn. Ru, tao ex- ,remes oi our social life appear to be iav- crltes with our novel writers. the ven poor and the very uch, and the contrasts between tho states IS presented as fl the parties eee ap> ink these stations belonged tc hNed classes, ike the foreign ptoleta. Iia, and the foreign au>,ocrac Helein lie the i.slsenesS st pt,tate> Il ts ;, ttti= ,>in remembered h> all sNt <p, these tha; vfitc Ametlesn naNcl> ih..i there ,> na tNc.i, permanent, enduring >osial position ii Ame'isa he son et the peet man et ,e=aN nsss be the sogttl leader oj tie next gcnei Auun \, wealth wlth ft> eold eu krNs opens etesS aoei ,n thss eoans ifAs ~i6 aioK Stes io iiseit the n3Re ei sssfSN N'snpA represents large ts.lu-,,l t.i a prePle and then hlcnds a.ie tinr ~hICh Is depieled as ,'s uems hess la>e thtgr money .sHd ree rallc,l aS she ne~ fseh appear on ihe socne lheic
 
 lens s~ tts membership depends upon ufealth IL x noi slnsuiai ths, Il should eSn,Ain yer, few men or women ot high setcntlilo ei literary aitalnmcn,s, as these very seidom auali, ,hcu pos>cssors te enter the ta.e tor cal pre- cmlnencc m whteh the competitors stnvine iot the goal klck up so mn, h gold dust, That, the manners ot socIetye should Ieiie,t the manners "i Class from which l,s mem bet> consider themselves piomotcd II nothing remarkable. Tor the hne oi de msfe auon \ no, hete as an Europe based upon irtdiuons hardened genctat,ons Ii tho iamtly hfe et nc~,y admitted nen.h,i ei the golden sntle has beea iasea able te the cultivation ai gentle manners and modc> ut thought. hc will possr', them III hi> ncw cstatc, nat by 4irtac ot h,S adm ssion bui II h's pfe aoae nnnE consequently sn Amer can fteIAst ~he tet-teNeat> onc class tS del1s. bthIIV weilzlttd and another as heftie ,iS tude, dta" a pietBte ~hit h mas lutctest iutai, generation. but eet t.sfuty is uut tee ogn ftd I'll ,his
 ,ke ten oi twelve bread wtnnrIs wtll eaeAt oi them In iude daliaide knases. lodtts. baihcs, two very ignorant and one s,hemlpg snd ,mmadrst woman Perhaps selected group ot thts number mas include such proportion. bu, Wili the author ~ho mskrs thls scieetaan t,pi- eai oi the largest ela's oi the ee,utnub1t, leave hehlnd hlm d pI,'utr hs wh' a ,ututc generation will oh an ,rtit [ tdct oi the Amrifr an working people ui the last quarter oi the nlnc,eeutit tcntutyf Me think not surely Il must .tsut to eN.i> impartial obserNeI iha, ihetc must have been al some tune a bft i ~fnnrt who ~aS gold 1tnnef .tA wtt ii n. his- tory nf every family who are raid hoard CTS io day Trace back oul wealthiesi tsmiiits and the Amrnosm nosel,s, knows ol no other who have clam to be c"nsldeTed Sopeiy and we ind then founder me, hanis sth more tai rn' than hls fellow ~oikmen, ot auade4 man ~ha developed in,o a gieai mel chant These men m Inc bread winninY stayss ni then career wsIr nriihst hoo | hedds uut kuaNts nor were lhet moth eiz and N4XeN shallow hiAned and in modest women. ard yet morally th,ss 4retstots ot ths modem nch did no probably dii'.i greatly itom tlsu assas aies feiu ihs fsuks ot Amttnan ~aft irR people have srraug many men lutti, snllntut ior great Atttacs to the siate who held ,hemselves well IT. hlgh stalirns and ihe future we have un doubt wlil fun uish ytt other illus'ta,ions oi this ttuth
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