The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-30
EXPENSES OE THE RICH.
HOW THE NEW YORK NABO8S GET
RID OF THEIR MONEY.

RID OF THEIR MONEY.
Constant Heiteration Of the Costs OF
HospItaIity-SmaI Cost of Enjoyment
in the Rural DistrictS-An Illustration
OF IdioCy.
Ascertdned expenses Us u rule are not bur
deilsonle. ii i the constant rgiteration Of the
costs OF hospitality that tells in the end. If
Mr.. Gould goes with his family alone IN his
beautiful steamer along the coast, or pelle-
trates with ShaTpened Prov the phoSphorcs-
cent waves of the Atlantic to amy consider
able distance the expense Is comparatively
meager but if he takes company from here 70
Newport, from thence to New London, and
back again and around u AIartha's Vineyard
and New Bedford, compelled all the time 70
have III readiness a menu admirably selected
and lavishly supplied, with cuisine always
ready to command and high-Salaried chef,
which latter. by the way, means all the way
from S2,CDO to 5000 year, this would in
volve considerable money, as YOU can readily
see Four hundred or $500 a day would slip
away n easily - a fireman down patent
slide.
KEEPING; ~ EN HOUSE
I.ool, ut the country houses, such one
j. occupied by Phelps in New Jersey, by
young Vanderbilt, by Mayor Grace on Long
Island, 10y any. one of a score of men to whom
500. 900 year IS 4 natural cost. not OF living,
but of entertaining. In the first place they
keep literally open house, with dozen guest
chambers, well furnished, with n retinue of
servants, male and female, with first class
cooks, with no regular hours for meals except
the dinner Breakfast, lunch and supper
always on the tap. rs it were. With stables
literally filed with horses for driving and
men to attend to them all. Can't you readily
see how the expenditure of such a house As
that runs up TO 81 o1O, 81 300, or 8. uaJ IA week
| doubt very much If any such laviShncss
of expenditure attends the summer life of
people who are born to comfort, To whom the
thousand and one delicacies AMI eicgancies
that attend the routine expenses OF weil-to-do
Americans ARE As natural Is water 20 n
spring.
We are considering the living OF class Of
men, a class gradually but surely growing,
which finds its pleasure in oStentatiou. in dis
play, and utilities hospitality its chief in
strument, along that highway Of extrIva-
gance and | think, nonsense.
| was reading in one Of our evening papers
this week an account Of summer home ia
Massachusetts, where a couple, for 5 q week.
had the use of parlor and bedroom ON tie
first floor, a first-cla>s table. country table
" in tttlslt'lt tkEli~- ttsli fbl.lt.A Nff--
tables, truly" milk, ami all the cream they
needed, and where fifty cents for the u.s. Of a
horse and wagon am entire day was regarded
rs ample compensation
UNwIsE HOSPITALITY
Now, l don't mean To- say that a man can
have rs much pleasure on 81 q week in a
country farmhouse a. he can have on $50
week in an elegant home i'm Newport O. Long
Branch. Int do mean to SAY that man
who can afford to spend $500 with sensible
entertainm-v, o.. a Yacht. or with wise hos
pitality I'm a country home, can derive there
from very much more satisfaction than many
of these upstairs get ont Of their 900 or
$500 a week, bceau~a the last named are
robbed right and left. They don't know
what things should cost rhe. ara unaccus-
toned to their U.s..
Here Is an illustration uf idiacy: | saw
with my own eyes last night on the moon
lighted piazza of the West End hotel IN Lon.
Branch, tW" young men, one tt son Of
played-out politician, who has not q cent in
the world, the other the son of wealthy
French importer of IaceS. They We're dressed
in the extremity of fashion. with small
bouquets in the lappCls of their coats. and the
trousers Of each were turned up. In that
guisc they entered the ladies' parl0r, where
dancing was going on: later ON they went
into the supper room. and later Yet | met
them in the haTroom.
Now their Idea is founded in the fact that
iu London. where wet weather Is the habit
and not the exception, people turn up the
hem of their trousers, and that Is the whole
of it. But people IN London don't wear white
flannel suits and tUra mp the bottoms of their
trousers. They are sensible about it. These
young men are dressed Tor comfort, - far -
their warp and woot are concerned. but they
We're dressed for fashion 81 far as the bottoms
Of their trousers We're concerned. They win
grow up into the elias, O: men who VIII spend
81 900 week i'll the summer for glitter and
show and mover get 81 worth of comfort dur
ing the entire saason.-,ipc Howard i'm Boston
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