The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-28
1T COSTS MORE TO LIVE NOW .

1t costs more to live now, than it
did years ago." Yes, very likely.
1t costs more to live in a city, than it
did to live in the country and more
to live in great city than it formerly
did to live in small one.
The marble palace of swindling
bank officer costs more than the neat
white cottage where his father lived
and thrived. The brown stone man
sion of the stock jobber or speculator
costs more than the old brown cottage
with the honey-suckle around it,
where he spent the days of his early
youth. Brussels carpet costs more
now than bare floors did then. The
broadcloth of useless fop costs more
than the homespun of a useful farm
er and the ''nobby suit" of deli
cate counter jumper costs more than
the plain attire of a hardworking me-
chanic. The false hair, silks and
hounces used by a firt to capture a
fool cost more than the genuine hair
and comfortable clothing in which
her grandmother lived and toiled and
won the love of all around her, who
priced her for her honest worth.
Roast turkey enough to give an alder
man the apoplexy costs more than
the roast potatoes and milk on which
his honest grandfather fed his grow
ing family. Burnt beefsteak of the
first quality, for one, costs more than
beef soup for whole family did years
ago. Turtle soup costs more now
than bean porridge ever did. Oyster
suppers cost more now than bowls of
bread and milk. Plum pudding costs
more than hasty pudding, and pound
cake is more expensive than Indian
Johnnycake. The finest wheat bread
is more expensive than the old brown
loaf, that was common before dyspep-
sia became fashionable. Pianos cost
more than churns, and consume more
time, and so poor music is more plen-
ty than good butter. Swindling a
living out of the ignorant costs more
than digging it out of the soil, though
the swindling process is deemed more
respectable by many. The paper
soled French-gaiters for a large fam
lily of puny weaklings, cost more than
the coarse, stout shoes which rosy,
barefooted children put on in autumn
and defed the frosts and SHOWS of
winter and stamped their way through
drifts and storms to school. It costs
more for women to pay doctors for
their drugs and ailments, than it did
their mothers to rear houseful of
healthy children, to be their pride,
and comfort and support in old age.
1t costs more to raise one sickly hirt,
or conceited fop, i'll idleness and lux
ury, than it once did to bring up a
dozen children who were taught to
pay their way and earn their bread,
and be help to their friends and
parents. Champagne and Burgundy,
made of dye stuff and drugs, costs
more now than clear cold water did.
1t costs more to endorse spenthrift's
note, than it used to teach boy an
honest trade. The jewelry and rag
roses for which young women sell
their virtue and their souls, cost far
more than the modest apparel which
their mothers wore, and when they
served God and feared sin. Thirty
yards of silk made up in a dress by a
fashionable dressmaker, and worn in
pride and vanity, costs more now
than eight yards of calico, made up
by sensible woman, and worn in a
Christian way. 1t costs men more
now for religion which makes men
idlers in Gods vineyard, and leads
them on in pride and show and Sec
tarianism, to perdition, than it did
once for religion that made them
good men in this world, and gave
them a good hope of eternal life in
the world to come. Yes, lit costs
more to live now" and the exact
cost is not known here, nor will it be,
till eternity shall strike the awful
balance and solve the mighty prob
lem-"What shall it profit man if
he gain the whole world and lose his
own soul or, what shall man give
in exchange for his soul ?"-C0nam0n
People.