The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-08
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
The Dudes of the City Taking
Back Seats-Country Brains
to the Front.

Thank God for the country Blessed lie
that rural life which believes in honesty Of
puGpOse aud steady acjiOn;which recognize-
The existence OF things Il, they are; which
believes In sentiment which il not ashamed
OF feeling where surchaTged thOngnts find
relief in tears; whore st,adiast ewes rest
clearly upon equslly steaGiast oTbs. From
the country the citi,s get their young men.
The young gentlemen" are BORN IN the
metropollses, but the young "mel," with
clear heads and virile bodiss, Wit. muscles
and nerves, with red-hOt blood, with ambi-
t.sns and aspirations and resires aud pur-
poses come from the country Heaven helI
the nation which depends for its guidance
i,s progress and its defense upon city born
city bred effeminacies
There are III Nsw York City" says Joe
Howard, "mep who started from nothing who
spend To day annually from $4,000 10
$4,000 in their home expenses. Their
children are born on plare Of comfort 10
which their parents We're Strangers; afilI
-nce has taken the place of necesSity. One
would suppose. ii he had not the evidence
To the contrary before his eyes continually,
that these men, having started humbly,
mental effort and physical WEAKNESS, would
md pleasure in seeing their families reared
in comparative comfort and ease. to be sure.
but would take pains to impress upon the
minds OF their children the necessity OF hon
esty and industry.
The contrary is the fact / have in my
mind Il newspaper prOprietor-not in New
York City, and not very far from it--who
vas born In Obscuri,y and excessive pow
erty. He began life by selling papers on
the:streets, and running errands for such be
nevolent strangers as were willing TO trust
a tatIsrdermsliun ON the sidewalk Pre-
cisely why he started with the pur-
pose OF b coming rich don't know. The
fact IS sufficient. When he was fifteen
years old he went into a printing office and
learned the Job branch of that occupation
Little by little he grew, always frugal, al
ways Industrious, sober minded, proper
man. AT the age OF thirtv-hve re owned
one of the largest job printing offices III
The section OF the country where he lived,
aud stlll reside, and to-day circumstances
have favored him remarkably. He is
chief proprietor In one of the best paying
institutions in the country.
"He has children, the eldest of whom, a
son OF niaetren years Of age, is pretty well
along the road 10 ruin. / ran across him
the other day Instead of the vigorous
irish physique possessed by his father, the
lad is small, slender, pale and dissip4ted.
He dresses IN the EXTREMIST dude fashion,
English peaky shoulders, wasp waist, nobby
kzees, long cuffs and ioothpick shoes, and
lawdy da's through life, miserable, sick
ening, simpering simpleton He has a
morse and . coupe, gold headed cane and
package Of cigarelt-s. He drinks cham
payne between the acts occupies proscenium
boxes on frat nigns, falls in love- with
every pretty face he sees vote, life bore,
and shares the opinion Of the sspient critic
ID whom l alluded in my opening sentence,
that Lucia is hsckneyed OPERA"