Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-15
AMERICAN SOCIAL LIFE.

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AMERICAN SOCIAL LIFE.
| An English Critic Records Her Impress
sfons of Us.
English people seem never to tire of
| writing about America The latest
criticism is published in the Queen over
| the signature of Harrie E. Mills. 1t
runs in part as follows: There are in
fact five great divisions comprising the
American people. At the head is the
| Intellectual class and following are the
fashionable, religious, domestic and
servant classes, each being sub-divided
| into numerous circles or cliques who
cling together clannishly, resent the
| intrusion of other ''sets' and refuse to
tolerate unrecommendedo outsiders.
The intellectual class has its fountain
| head at Boston, and the Puritan peo-
pie, now disciples of Ralph Waldo EN-
erson and versed in all the arts and
sciences, endeavor to rise above the
sordid standards of wealth and fashion
to the plane of the true philosopher.
No doubt many people in other coun-
tries would be amused and interested
| in the study of the habits of the New
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| English Puritans and who have re-
| tanned their high standard of simplic-
ity, morality and religion and dis
carded their prejudices and fanati-
| cisms. In the most obscure agricult-
ural districts, where the yankee twang
| and peculiarities of speech are pain
fully conspicuous, one will find the in
ha bitan not only versed in the intri-
cate political questions, but we'll &C
| quainted with the works of the best
English authors and familiar with the
| current literature of the day. From
sunrise to sunset, in summer and fall,
| the young New Highlander works,
stints and saves in order that he may
spend the winter months in study at
an adjacent college town. And
| when the fields have been CLEANED of
| their scant productions and the rocky
soil is covered with ow-when frost
sparkles from trees and window panes
and the family gather round fire of
| cracking logs-one will find amid en-
| suing conversations 4 keen wit, an
| originality of criticism, versatility
| and an evidence of thought that is
akin to genius.
just imagine young girls paying
their college tuition with wages earned
| during vacation as mattresses at large
| hotels among mountain and seaside re-
sorts! Hundreds of them do this with
| ont losing a jot of their dignity or low
ering themselves in the eyes of their
friends Many young men utilize old
| dress suits in the capacities of walters
| while founding their future career.
They are the most faithful and
conscientious people in performing
their duties, and many hotel proprie-
tors advertise as an attraction that
student walters will see that guests
are we'll served" and exclude the serv.
ant classes from their dining rooms.
Wealth makes little, if any, distine-
ton in the intellectual classes In
deed. the daughters and sons of the
rich are furnished with facilities for
developing their talents after gradua-
ton, and, whether it be profession,
an art or trade toward which. mind
tends, one or the other must be studied
with the view that self-support would
be possible should reyerses of fortune
make it necessary. Idleness' is sin,
ignorance lamentabie, fashion-unless
artistic--has no merit, religion must be
in measure scientific, cleanliness of
mind is as necessary as the observance
of laws of hygiene.-N. Y. Advertiser.
Care Of velvets.
It is ruinous to velvet to brush it
with anything save the softest surface.
Yet velvet catches dust and all flying
particles with such wonderful tenacity
that it is really problem to keep it in
wearing order Some careful women
make their own whisks which they en-
ploy for nothing else and which are
constructed of a very tight roll of any
soft-threaded cloth frayed out for two
or three inches. A perfectly new hare's
foot. such as is sold for the application
of face powder, ought to serve the same
purpose. as it is very stout and still
very soft in touch.-Philadelphi Press.
He Aimed Higher.
Housekeeper-Did you ever do an