The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-05
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.
rHE cosT oF SOCIETY,".

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
Not alone in the cities and the centers of popua
in the smaller well the cost OF going INTO
society becoming an item of interest Our interesting CON
emporary the Over County Herald is authority for the
statement that Dyersburg social functions now require
carriages flowers candies We understand the boys we
With each other in these matters with the result that some
Of them spend as high as $40 single event which sum
is equal one fourth of the monthly income OF most OF
them Becoming reminiscent and bewaing the degeneracy
of the times Editor Haywood continues I'm the oden days
and golden things did high. The candy was
made the candypuings and the sweet girls wore the
flowers that bloom in the spring and when Mistress Beauty
the party accompanied by her beau she donned foot
wear impervous cold and and mud and planked
the preest little feet that touched the ground in the
middle OF the big road while her happy young fellow as
proud uccr carried her golden slippers in his right
hand they went the party and danced all night till
broad daylight and home by the road in the
morning. In spite of sidewalks and graveled big roads the
modern young refuses to do grandmother did and
insists carriages candy and bought flowers This is
all well enough in way it compels the young men TO
eonomze in other ways and strain every to be
able the pace but according conree has
serious drawback in that it means that young
not cultivate the companonhp of ladies without cu-
tivatng the habits of spendthrift He out to
make careful search for wife without possibly incapaci
tatng himself for taking care of one This condi-
ton of affairs is productive of old maids and old
bachelors 1t the impression that is almost mpos
sibe to for wife limited income keeps the
pocketbook of the society boy such depleted condition
that he is able to marry still it shuts the
doors of society in the face of the worthy young who
determined by strict economy accumulate something thus
barring out the eligible for husbands
The cost OF living many from marrying be-
yond doubt and the greater independence of who
have entered almost every of labor and who have
become breadwnners their account incnes many
young away from the married In this they
not unwse Now that the world is divided between
capitalists who furnish employment and nyrads of aborcrs
who seek employment and who struggle in competition with
each other, marriage may we'll be deferred The mechanic
matter how skiful the clerk bookkeeper
how competent marres at his peril because he does not
know the moment he will be thrown of work which
suffering for his family and desperate agony for him
self II add to the of living the pohbitive of
courtshp the institution of marriage will fall into compare
tive disuse That the of courtshp and the subsequent
cost of living of all proportion the income OF
ordinary man without the saying and hence hav
ing in the cities about many divorces weddings. The
cost OF living absorbs everything and the who
$50 month less pressed for money his
expenses than the who makes five times that
SO reckless have all become that salary nowadays
longer the measure of a mans earning capacity, but
the mctc-wand of his capacity to get in debt The |
human heart constantly dignities and dsinc-
tons and burns with desire outStrip and outshne
fellows and in democracy where there no classes
castles hereditary honor fixed divisions society the ex
poitaon of wealth the indulgence of extravagances the
pressing forward toward distinction every way that can
gnaze the individual people discover as
they always will that wealth the appearance wealth
the only difference in people and that the homely
longer prizcd