Wichita eagle., 1886-12-02
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EXPENSES OF THE RICH.
HOW THE NEW YORK NABOBS GET
RID OF THEIR MONEY.

Constant Eeiteration OF tho Costs OF
Hosp'tality-Smau Cost OF Enjoyment
in the Rural DIstricts-An illustration
oe Idiocy.
Ascertaincd expenses as a rule are not bur.
denSornc. it is the constant rciteration Of the
costs OF hospitality that tells in the end II
Ar. Gould goes with his family alone in his
beautiful steamer along the coast, or Dene-
trates with slarpencd Prov the pho5phores-
cent waves of the Atlantic to any consider
able distance, the expense is comparatively
meaScr, but if he takes company from here 20
Newport, from thence to New London, and
back again and around to Martha's Vineyard
and New Bedford, compelled ali the time to
have III readiness 4 menu admirably selected
and lavishly supplied, with a cuisine always
ready TO command and a high-salaried chef,
which latter, by the way, means all the way
from s., 900 to s., 900 year, this would in
volve considerable money, hi you can readily
SEQ. -Four hundred or 500 a day would slip
away as easily as a fireman down patent
aldo
KEEPING OPEN HOUSE.
Look at the country houses, such q one as
is occupied by Phelps in New Jersey, by
yNo1iS NA-INSi oliIl Wy dCS OH lLOIiS
Island, by any one of a score of men to whom
$4,000 a year is natural cost. not of living,
but of entertaining. In the first place they
keep literally open house, with q dozen guest
chambers, well furnished, with retinue Of
servants, male and female, with first class
cooks, with no regular hours for meals except
tho dinner. Breakfast, lunch and supper
always on the tap, as it were With stables
literally filed with horses for driving and
horses for riding and with groons and coach
men to attend TO them all Can't you readily
see how the expenditure Of such house as
that runs up TO 81 900, 81, 800 or s., go a week
doubt very much if any such lavishness
OF expenditure attends the summer life of
people who are born TO comfort, to whom the
thousand and one deicacics and olegancies
that attend the routine expenses Uf Well-to-do
Americans are Is natural as water to
spring.
We are considering the living Of class Of
men. n class gradually but surely growing,
which finds its pleasure in ostentation, in dis
play, and Utilities hospitality as its chief in
strument. along that highway OF cztrava-
gance and, think, nonsense.
was reading III one Of our evening papers
this week IN account OF o summer home in
Massachusetts,, where 4 couple, for SSa week,
had the use Of 4 parlor and bedroom on tho
first floor, a frst-class table, country table,
with eatabIe chickens, real country vege-
tables. truly milk, and all the cream they
needed, and where fifty cents Tor the use of
horse and wagon an entire day was regarded
as ample compensation.
UNwIsE HOSPITALITY.
Now, don't mean to say that q man can
have as much pleasure on 81 Il week in a
country farmhouse rs he can have on $50
week in an elegant home in Newport or Long
Branch, but do mean to say that n man
who can afford to spend $500 with sensible
entertainment on yacht, or with wise hos
pitality in q country home can derive there
from very much mere satisfaction than many
of these upstairs get out of their s 900 or
$500 a week, because the last named are
robbed right and left. They don't know
what things should cost; they ere UnaccuS-
toned to their use.
Here Is an illustration of idiocv: l saw
with my own eyes last night on the moon
lighted piazza Of the West End hotel in Long
Branch, two young men, one the son of
played-Out politician, who has not cent il
tho world, the other the son OF q wealthy
French importer of laces. They were dressed
In the extremity OF fashion, with small
bouquets ii the laDpclS or their coats, and the
trousers OF each were turned up. In that
Euise they entered the ladies' parlor where
dancing was going on; later on they went
into the supper room, and later yet l met
them in the b2rroOm.
Now their idea is founded in the fact that
in London, where wet weather is the habit
and not the exception, people turn up the
HON Of their trousers, and that is the whole
of it, But people in London don't wear white
flannel suits and turn up the bottoms of their
trousers. They are sensible about it. These
young mea are dressed for comfort, so far rs
their warp and wool are concerned, but they
were dressed for fashion so far rs the bottoms |
of their trousers were concerned. They VIII !
grow M into the class OF men who will spend |
81 900 week in the summer for glitter and |
show and never get 81 worth Of comfort dur |
iny tho entire ssason.-Joe Howard in Boston |
Globe.