Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-10-04
ENGLISH ARiSIOChACy.
It Is Slowly Letting Down the lSi.rs OF Class


&c Is Slowly Letting Down the lS.rs OF Class
Exclusiycncsa.
| Not SO long ago the limo between the
( aristocratic and other classes of the COM
munity was very decidedly drawn al
trade A poor family might lay claims
to gentility, and ono OF more of its mem
bers might now and then figure at, say,
! a county ball, but a tradesman's fam
ily-nevor. Now it is otherwise, the
aristocracy themselves having stepped
over tho dividing line. Lord Shrews-
bury and Talbot, for instance, who takes
precedence of all other earls, unblush-
ingly became cab proprietor; Lord
Rayleigh" is the inscription that may
be read OH tho signboard of one or two
London diaries. The Marquis Of Lon
dondcrry is prepared to deliver coal by
tho ton. ''NO agents such are the
final words of this noblcman's adver-
tiscment, put in just rs any trader born
and bred might put them In. This de-
scent from aristocratic seclusion into the
arena of commercial conflict is not con-
fined tD the male portion of our nobility.
Titled ladies under disguised names
carry Oh millinery establishments and
run cafes. Their dainty fingers, too, arc
not above manipulating flowers for
profit. So generally indeed has the
sacred thirst for gold infected tho upper
ten that, whereas they were won't to be
accused of living in idleness, they are
now accused of taking the bread out of
the mouths Of those who depend entirely
upon business for their support.
Far beneath these noble ranks can be
traced a similar descent. Street music,
for instance, used to be discourscd by
tho utterly abject and broken down.
Now men and women warmly clad and
we'll fed go about with organs. Troops
of men sing, ratio the bones and do a
breakdown III public thoroughfares to
the tune Of not less than the better part
Of u sovereign day per man. Two hun
dred pounds a year in an assured situa-
ton was tho salary that one young man
threw up last summer to join niger
troop at the seaside, and he doesn't re-
greet it. At the end of tho season he had
more money than he over had at one
time before and during the season he
alto better dinners and drank better
wines than no had ever eaten or drunk
before. Hawking matches OF laces or
any other trifo in public house bars
used to be and still is way Of cvading
tho law against begging. Indeed the
custom Of singing on the streets arose
out of the same necessity for those i'll
want not to incriminate themselves.
Now you will be in the saloon bar of a
first rate refreshmont house In comes
bag. Some successful stockbrol1er, you
think, if it be 'in tho city. You fancy
you are the victim Of dclusion. Here
is this man, as we'll dressed as your
principal, holding his open bag before
you and asking you to buy box Of YES
tas Well dressed women are going
about from public house to public house
pursuing similar callings. They speak
we'll, too do these people, betraying a
fair amount Of education. If tradeslnen
have any grounds for complaining Of
tho aristocracy trenching on their terri
tory, surely the poor and needy have
grounds Of similar complaining Of hay
ing the instruments of their profession
thus conflscated by an apparently supe-
rior class. OF course, with such gen
eral downward trend, the poor and
needy are driven lower still, and this in
q measure is seen in the ever increasing
charitable institutions. relief agencies.
soup kitchens and so forth, and tho ever
increasing strain OH the resources Of
such establishments. -Cassell' S Journal.