The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-06-10

ecIipsed- She was very poor, and she
sat up working nearly all night for .
great while until she bought a seal.
skin coat. have not heard OF the re-
suit on that street. The street was
full Of those who are on small incomes,
but l suppose the contagion spread,
and that everybody had a sealskin
coat, and that the people came out and
cried. practically, not literally.
Though the heavens fall, we must
have a sealskin coat"
l was out west and a minister of the
Gospel told me, in Iowa, that his church
and the neighborhood had been impov-
erished by the fact that they put mort
cages Of their farms in order to send
their families to the Philadelphia cen
tennial. 1t was not respectable not to
go to the centennial. Between such
evils and %pauperism there is u very
short step, The vast majority Of chill.
dren in your aims houses are there be-
cause their parents are drunken, lazy,
or recklessly improvident,
l have no sympathy for skinfint saw
ing, but ! plead for Christian prudence,
You say it is impossible now to lay up
anything for n rainy day. know il,
but we are at the daybreak of national
prosperity. Some people think it is
mean to turn the gas low when they
go out OF the parlor. They feel en-
barrassed il the door bell rings before
they have the gas lighted. They apollo
gize for the plain meal, II You surprise
! them at the table. Well, 1t is mean If
it is only TO pile up a misery board,
But II it be to educate your children,
if it be to give more help to your wife
when she does not feel strong, if II be
to keep your funeral day from being
Mortified beyond all endurance, be-
cause it is to be the disruption and
humiliation OF the domestic circle-if
1t be for that, then it is magnificent,
There are those who are kept in pow
erty because of their own fault. They
might have been well off, but they
smoked or chewed up their earnings,
or they lived beyond their means,
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