The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-07-31
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bol Air, Md, July 81. 1891.
HITS AND MISSES.
CONTRIBUTED By A. sPARRER.
"Ds omni 70 scibiS ct qui5usdam aIiss."

"Ds omni 70 scibiS ct qui5usdam aIas'
Now comes this pretty tale from vera
cious newspaper A tale of war in the arts
tocratic camp, that our money kings have
come to blows metaphorically. For whatf
1t is a very domestic row, In fact savors
strongly of the kitchen.
One of New York's four hundred, having
"yiews" on the servant question has rented
an eight thousand dollar mansion for the &C.
commodasion of her domestics.
We do not hear of any dissatisfaction from
the servants side. Probably being the first
class imported article, they are stoical as to
few minor discrepancies in taste.
The trouble comes In from Beacon street.
The domicile is owned by one Of Boston's
most exclusive set, has been furnished and
adorned with all the refinement and estheti
cism Of genuine culture. Dissertation enough
tn rent To one from burgher New York We
presume the almighty dollar prevailed.
Fatal error for now all Newportdom
thrills with delight over this rsrest It'd bit.
Severely cultured aud intensely feminine let
tiers have passed to and fro, and the latest is a
lawsuit pending between the houses of Van
derbilt and Wales
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We, that are out OF "the swim, y. wonder if
the fast-sging joke about Bridget and her pi-
ano, her parlor and her visitors was really
prophecy after ali.
Nothing left for our moneyed aristocracy
but that their inflated pocket books watt
them to some new Olympus, where served by
Hebe and Ganymede they may escape
such mundane compicatiopa
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The annual wall goes up from the land
about good American dollars fitting across
seas to enrich John Bull and Johnny Cra-
paud.
So long as they are good American dollars
and honest American dollars, they had better
go where francs and Louis d'Ors spring from
gaming tables, where honest English sover-
eigns are forced to play puss wants corner
with baccarat counters. Be they dollars
heaped from corner in wheat, or wrung by
are out Of the way the better.
We are prone to make much talk about
John Bulls patriotism, only in him we give it
the name of insularism let US beware that
our spread .eageisms do not bring US very
near the position we criticise in another.
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And now that something more precious
than gold is current talk, we will hear less of
BIZ and all other sorts of metallisms.
The California belle, who parts her ruby
lips to flash the scintillations of her diamond
filings, turns US poor mortals of the short
purse green with envy.
With pearls and diamonds and sapphire
eyes she is truly jewel of a girl.
We have spent our lives scraping together
gold for needy teeth only to find we are out
of the dental Swim" 8ff&
Well, perhaps, in the good times coming,
the care of our teeth will be government
function. No longer unwilling victims, we
will take to the chair conscious of the digni-
~ of our nationslism.
What relief not to worry as to which par
ticular metal or precious stone will both re-
spect the limits of our purse and pacify Dame
Fashion,
Already we are cheered, for has not govern
ment undertaken to regulate our rain supply.
Fin de steele we make rapid strides.
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We shake hands with our friend who has a
good word for the much-sbused Turk. He
has always been the under dog in the fight,
and we now confess to a sneaking sympathy
for him. politically and collectively, scarcely
individually.
Though long the sick man of Europe, he has
never acted like bear with a sore head,
while across his path ever dances very big
bear with very sore head.
His sins are those of heathendom. He has
never pro!essed TO walk under tie banner of
One whose banner is love. And that same
banner, carried by quasi-disciples of peace
aud love, has told him many tale of Chris
tisn ~ warfare.
While his big neighb Dor is sowing revolt,
cross.legged friend may become the apostle of
goodwill and peace.
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All our pleasures and all our crosses are 81
10y contrast. Compared 10 this man, We are
of al men most miserable-in contrast to
that, we breathe the airs Of Paradise.
When we long for Bethany" we for.et
we are not Russian or Hebrew.
Arthur Helps in Friends in Council tells
us if people would live happily together "they
must not fancy. because they are thrown to-
geihtr now, that all their lives have been ex-
aclly similar up to the present time; that they
started alike and that they are TO be for the
future of the same mind A thorough con-
vetiOn of the difference OF men is The great
thing 40 be assured of in social kno wledge; it
Is to lite what Newton's law is to astronomy.
If we were all fashioned alike, this would
be very tame world indeed, and IL is as au-
tocratic for the mother to insist upon ma
chine pattern in the home, as it is for the
Gar of all the Russiss to try to have every
body just to his liking in his dominions.
Alexander doubtless argues he has the right
until his people take it from him. That they
have not done so is no argument that they
are happier and better than other peoples.
So
The mistress who rules her servant as an
automaton may send out very good auto
maton, Tut in case Of an emergency, che will
wish for something more than machine.
The day has gone by for the blind, unrea-
soning obedience Of q slave, and believe the
mistress has half solved the servant question,
who forms sort Of copartnership with her
help.
II is not q question of paying more wages !;
as whstever figure they may be put the en-
ployee works for them alone. But let the
element Of self.interest enter Into the number
Of pounds Of butter used per week, the qusn-
tity of lard and -four partly consumed and
partly wasted.
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