Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-01-08
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| eion rlv horses ard carriages, AZ mnco -
| mired In society. Ny hsalth h sxeslisot. and
| whatever money can buy tn this work., VIII
| In rsason. Is at my command Ought no<
then. to be happyF
| Ths millionaire sighed - b asked the quss'
| ton Encouraged in the hurnor BY respo0ss
| Of emphatic assent from the friend IN the arm
| chair on the other SIDE Of the little tabie-shs
\ two were con ersing at the ciub-he added;
| 1T all depends IN how you look at thinSA
1 supt.ose For the sake Of argument ] am
| assuming q purely selfish standpoint Ths
question is. What do get out OF ali thisf IL
seesns to me that get very little. When
vas a Young man, without . penny, used to
tank u all that money would do and buy,
| end /, seemed TO me that should be perfectly
happy II / could accumulate tlo0, co But
| now thar spend pretty nearly that amount
every year can't sse that get 50 very much
| more out of Life than did when l was pour.
In reality oaly have the use of uiling
part Of v hat nominally own
And pray, bow do you make that ootF
ITS simple enough No mas can actually
make use for himself OF 50 very much money
after all Take the case Of Jay Gould, who
rs probably worth sl00, GOO He only owns
that amount in the sense that be controls It
for the use of others: be can use but small
fraction of 1t for himself. Most Of it he never
saw, and scarce any Of it does be ever -,
except = h.n ne goes on laborioas tours OF In
spection to find out what employment the
public is making Of the railways and tels-
graph lines he has created for their convs
nienee He works f6r his board and cloths
and mighty little else. The Astors own 5000
houses In New York city; they cannot uss
more than half dozen OF them; who uses the
resti Why, the people. A small part Of their
incomes from rents the Astors can utilize for
making themselves comfortable and happy,
while the bulk Of the mouey IN put into more
real estate for other peoples use, all that they
spend over and above their wants going to
help support tradesmen and workers. These
| are only Illustrations Of a general proposition,
Of which find my own case an exemplifcAr
ton As have often put the question TO
myself, What do get out Of all my supposed
blessingsF'
Everything that ought TO make human
| being comfortable, l should think"
1T should be 50, but is i'll Let US see how
far these blessings have any usefulness for me
personally. To begin with have tine house,
keep horses and carriages, and am in . posi-
ton to give entertainments on very hand
some scale | should rather say, however,
that my wife gives these entertainments; my
own part in them is not conspicuous For
some days before one is TO come of my home
is pretty well torn to pieces In preparation
for the event; the domestic circle is tempo
| rarily delnoralized and rendered uncomforta-
| ble and the ladies of the family are rendered
50 upset in temper by their anxieties regard
ing the approaching festivity that am glad
to get away TO the club in the evenings-in
fact, that, the reason I'm here at this min
ute. When the night for the party has ar
rived, where am II Not in demand. certainly.
The guests, particularly the young people,
don't come TO see me: fnd that ! am con
sidered TO be most appropriately disposed OF
In an ut-of-the-way corner of my own H.
brary. And this arrangement is altogether
agreeable u myself, inasmuch as a man OF my
| nge-athough, As you are we'll aware, am
socially inciined-can hardly he expected &c
mingle congenially in company chiefly COM
posed of giggling girls and young nncom-
poops in dress coats. Where come in is in
paying for their fun"
You don't go out much, do your
ITO other peoples entertainments No
Why should II They are nothing but the
same sort Of thing-more nincompoops. more
giggling girls, dancing, Irritation. gobbling
| ices and on. II is fun for them, but an
awful bore for me. However, this sort Of
thing represents the only object worth living
for to my wife and daughters, apparently; it
pretty much absorbs all the attention which
otherwise might hope for from them. When
| come home In the afternoon after my day 8
work is done. | find my wife dressing for din
ger. if She has returned from her usual call
ing tour, aEA after dinner am either drag
ged of 10 shine party or place Of amusement
not because | am wanted, but TO serve Is
an escort or am left Mt home alone to my
| own devices do not see the ladies of my
family at breakfast, because they don't get
out of bed until noon. 1t is only on Sundays
| that get any chance at all to make their ac-
| quaintance, Us you might say. Once in .
while venture TO address a mild protest to
my wife on the subject but she always says:
Ny dear, we have daughters of marriagea-
bic age and it is necessary that l should take
them out into society; il you suppose that l
find the performance of my duties as chaperou
amusing, you very much mistaken"
"You are in luck not to be asked to serve
in that capacity"
mo; that is not my line. My part is that
Of cash distributor l am regarded a. .
sort Of money bag, to dip into for coin when
anything is wanted. Ny duty being to serve
in that capacity no gratitude is felt for what
l bestow; am merely considered an Ill
natured old cnrmudgeon il do but occasion
ally ask for small accounting. One of my
daughters would not speak to me at the din
ner table last night because refused to give
her a separate allowance for pin money in
addition to the 500 month already appro-
priated for her clothes and ct cetsras. she
said that the other girls all had distinct al
lowances for pin money, outside Of clothes,
and she didn't see why she should not also
My son doesn't make . decent pretense Of
keeping within his allowance; he runs up big
phis, vi lhe strength IN my Crallt, AZ tno
tailor's, the florists, the hotels and elsewhere,
and when they are sent to me, because he
fails to pay them, and ! express annoyance,
he turns sulky and talks about the necessity
OF living like gentleman.
i AS well as can make out his notion Of
living like a gentleman consists chiefly il
foolish dissipation. Nevertheless, my son y
considered an eligible party. matrimonially
speaking, by other girls mammas. owing to
his expectations of inheriting money when
go off the hooks, and likewise it is with my
daughters, Of whom the young men say:
oh, they'll have money when the old puiYer
dies Meantime, when my children marry,
shall be expected to supply each of them with
. conf rtable sum IN cash They look for
ward - 1t as q matter Of course. and it Is not
to be expected that they will be unduly
thankful. In short. am simply an animated
money sack. Once upon q time, have un-
derstood, u father was regarded as an object
Of reverence in his household and submission
was made to him, but now 1t seems to be al
together different, aud the only things sub
mitted to me by my family are the billAn-