The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-19

pexb indifference 20 the distinction Of
clothes. Iou Eay wear the most chic and
showy eonfecff0n that ever came out CT
q kariz atelier. azsd never ke2F comment
upon It's costly beauty. No one seemS 70
cast more than passing glance AZ those
wonderful frisis AMI furbeiows. No one
appears 70 Be IN the least degree envicssss
ard i your rasrlent should happen 10 he
gndnly gorgeous ard styiklns voa viii hna
yourself Skinned By Boston women Is II
ron we're 3 Fesfslenee. The simple, plain.
unvarnishea gowns, nasie alter = brown
paper pattern BY clumsy amateurs. stands
just as good 4 chance a. your fine feathers
which, n the Hub, do never make fine
birds. Alas, mol In this Utopia. ii Is what
what you are rather than what you wear,
that makes voar place IN society tor you.
Bat to give up tee symphony rehearsals.
dear 70 ali New England soals, costs a
writhe of anguish iedeed. Never % sit in
those dear familiar seats IN The dinly
lighted music hall. with. touches Of sweet
harmony creeping in your ears never 10
be able, without pinehing and planning
and continuing. like the Princess Alicia,
10 spare even the 3 cents that entitie you
70 Ightfor seat on the stairs Hith the
multitude; never 10 experience the delight
OF making one OF the emerging crowd,
chattering. laughing, in 8 SORT OF grand
good fellowship seldom possible SO Bostan,
this is sacrificing q very great deal. Then
there are the other concerts. lectures.
tbeasers, that must be given up. When
you have q large family and are suddenly
compelled to find food and lodging and
clothes for them al ont OF 81 30 year.
there are very, very few anuSements pos
Side. The common and the public garden
are lett, the art museum and the free
library for Boston Is tilosghffnI Of her in
seliectnal poor, Who longIor good things
for the mind as well as FOR The body. but
they are cut OFF from a thousand OF the
dear JOYS Of old. You can't entertain.
You can't be even h9spstabie-
lou can never buy new book or take in
magazines. The etching for which you
Ions with Florentlne fonTteenth-centufy
frenzy may stay in the shop window Till il
fades and grows pale before you can save
up money enough 10 buy il, penny by pen
n.y. and the beautiful embroideries you
were wild 10 own are blurred and dimmed
hy time when you have put aside a quarter
OF their price 70 purchase them. And as
table. you might as we'll cry for the north
pole At once; there's Just as much chance
Of your getting ID Think OF feeling a
tinge OF conscience every time you get into
horSe-eaEi You might have walked and
have saved cents, which would 80 toward
that dreadful eoai bill, which must be paid
next week and gets larger and larger as it
comes nearer. Ii you have talent for
economy and there are people SO blessed
this sort of thing delights ron: but the
newly poor are not apt to be so gifted and
slnd It terrible wrench to descend TO such
petty calculations and savings
And the worst of IL is, that all your
friends forget you. and you very soon slip
out OF the old, easy luxurious circle of life
where the morrow need take no thought
for itself, and there are no dun cares TO
drive away. To begin with, your eleventh
story flat is out CT the way. over on that
new-made land which likes to call itself
the Back Bay, but which the Back Bay re-
g4rds with quiet seorn as neither one thing
nor the other. patrician or ple5eian. You
are no longer in the beaten track OF Bacon
street, where all your dear 500 friends
corld run in Familiarity every five minutes
with news of the latest engagement or the
gossip of lunch or tea--they mnst make
an especial excuse TO get at you, and as
you cannot now afford gowns or gloves or
carriages to so out into society, and can
offer no entertainment in return little by
little their visits begin 10 grow less FREE
qaent. and very soon y0u are as entirely
out OF it oil as il you had gone with your
lares and penates TO the Desert OF Sahara
After while you are not even invited.
why should we send them card ~ say
the hostesses. They won't come. They
never go anywhere. Can't afford it, You
know" And so your name gradu-
ally disappears from the lists. This
is hard, hard blow to
bear. 70 realize how slight place you pc-
eapy in the hearts yon suppose nearest ahd
dearest. and how quickly the circle draws
up again and tiIls your vacant place. OF
course there are always some true, stanch
friends who never forget and Gre always
doing some kind and thoughtful thing to
drop = pleasure unostentatiously into a
dreary hnmdrum he, but they are like
angels visits, few and far between, and few
remember. many forget
Now, is this the sort of thing that il go
ing TO make cherubs OF us before our time !?
4 ~
adversely are very far from sweet. All
other trials. admit, bring out angelic
qualities, refine aad purify the roughest
natures and start our wings TO feaihering
before We are aware. Illness, death. sepa-
r#tton-a8 these work upon the earthliest
minds uatil they grow high and holy. But,
s. for poverty. IS the old mar used 10 say.
There's nothIn' Ike il to bring out all the
pssge ctssstiness there is IN mater" a man
can sometimes escape lis bittsrest sting.
for his work takes nim out into the world.
where ee comes IA contact with other men
ard meets every day with new ideas, new
PEOPLE ne@ atmospheres but 10 a woman
the horizon that poverty extends about IS
victims is oil the narroseSt II shuts her
heFelessiy in afeyer4ending roand al work
and wearlness, ii steruiy fufbids her from
indulglae ia the thought even Of the
pretty, dainty pleasures she loves. aud s.gs
her brain and heart with anxious cares
sna worries that pray upon her aneeas.
sgsviy night and dag. she ae1es.tz her
bsardcn elsscrfuily. At the FIRST hint ~
coming calamity she heeir.s at once
to regrsnca and eut down her expena ltssfes
without wort One by one she gives an
hsr Etsie extrAvag4ao 50 quietly ana IN
c8mr-aialasly that no one feasirss she Is
aosnE without them Her husband elinsS
Sc hls cisaT and his pics Of newxnapegs,
MS club snll his lunch az nom. with glass
az wina All perhaps too, long after she has
dismissed two 81 her maids aud decided 30
uske tie caaarcus dresses herself wssh
stasa aSsssta0ce as the aflrse can furnish.
liues be ever notlce that her hoaaef Is
shAhhy and the shape ghey aore two or