News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
VERY HIGH LIFE.
The Impossibility of Cutting d swell ON Six
Dollars a Week

With young man of limited financial
resources and fondness for the oppo-
site SEX dlHlcultles sometimes arise that
are as embarrassing as cah we'll be i'm
agined: No young man wishes to know
among the gentle sex that he is anything
short OF veritable nabob. So long as
he can dress pretty well and look as
though he commanded bank account
OF no small proportions he can sail along
very smoothly, but time will come
when the winds of adverse circumstan-
ces blow upon HIM, and nothing but the
shrewdest management of his craft will
save him from exposure. A young man
doesn't like it known that beneath the
outside show is a pOcketbook as empty
as the cradle when "baby's gone"
The writer was talking last night to
a resident of the east end who has very
handsome house, very nice family and
a very lucrative business. He is still
young enough to enjoy good joke,
even if itw upon himself. And he
related little story of the days when he
was struggling along on 81 day and
trying to have nice time. He came to
Pittsburg some fifteen years ago, and
though he had hard time of it, he has
passed that point long ago where a dol
lar is the size of a mountain.
will tell you," said he, "of a lit
tie episode in my life that don't think
l will forget as long as live. I had
come up to the city from farm down
the river, and was working in the city
for 81 a day. l always did like good
clothes" and he looked down over his
fine garments, "and it was pretty hard
for me to get along on my salary. Well,
after had been here for some time, a
young lady who lived neighbor to me
down at the farm, came up to town and
was visiting out in Lawrenceville. l
went out one night to call on her and,
as she had never been at an opera or
play, proposed that she should go with
me the next night. She was very glad
to go. Well, the next evening 1 started
out for her / had $1.15 in my pocket,
and couldn't have raised cent more if
l had been compelled to at the point
of a revolver. However, thought that
/ could get two tickets for 81, and that
would leave Is cents with which to come
into town, and l depended upon the
street cars being stopped after the per
Torrance so that we would have to walk
home. was in great spirits. At that
time the academy was one of the high
priced theatres in town, and we went
there. l boldly walked up to tho box,
got two fifty cent tickets, and then we
started for the entrance, l showed my
tickets and the door-keeper told me to
go upstairs. Well, we went up. pre-
sented the tickets, and what was my
astonlshment when this door-keeper
said to me: Next gallery By this
time l was feeling like ought to go out
in the alley and blow my head off for a
fool. But there was no help for it, and
we again assembled a flight of stairs.
When the doorkeeper saw us he whisp-
cred to me: You mustn't bring that
lady in here. Why, there's nobody up
here but boys and men. 1t wouldn't do
at all"
II did not know what to do. !
hadn't cent in my pocket. A bright
thought struck me, ard I turned to the
young lady from the country, who
have no doubt was wondering what it
all .meant, and said: Come; we'll go
home. That man there insulted me.
won't patronize such house, And
with every mark of indignation on my
face 1 escorted the young lady out to
the street. A new difficulty arose. l
had no money left for street car tare.
1t was two miles out to Lawrenceville.
There was no way for it but that we
should walk. took that girl up on
Liberty street, where there were no cars
and walked her out to Lawrenceville.
But promised to take her to the opera
house, where 1 told her that there
would bea play the next week that was
worth something. And 1 did. I got
enough money to do the thing up in
good style the next week. But III
never forget the agony was in while
was wandering around that night trying
to get into the academy on two fifty
cent tickets. Yes, sir, it is not safe for
a young man to enter society on 81 a
day. That young lady married very
wealthy man sfterward, and the first time
I see her l am goingto tell her all about
that insult received at the academy
that night. I think she will enjoy it,
FEttSb~g Chronicle telegraph.