The sun., 1903-11-19
singular Habits Of the Well-to-Do.

ern affairs generally.
Singular Habits OF the Well-to-Do.
Selfishness and lack of appreciation
of their duties to sociology cause the
well-to-do to surround themselves with
guards against the students who. devote
themselves to reducing their fellow men
to tabulated statements and averages.
Because of this the world Is much better
acquainted with the yearnings, the recre-
atoms, the aspirations and the habits OF
those whose poverty DEGREES tenement
home than with the inner processes OF
the dwellers in mansions. The sociol-
ogist who is unabashed in peeking into
the home of an East Side artisan is put
to rout when he attempts to watch the
evening meal of the Riverside Drive
magnate. The knowledge the statistl-
cal world gains of the domestic habits,
the amusements and the behavior OF
the wealthy must trickle out to 1t by in
direct and circuitous routes.
One of the most fruitful sources OF
exact information regarding the class
which so selfshly ignores the duty OF
telling it's domestic secrets is in the ad-
vertising pages of the numerous publl-
cations that have the largest circulation
in the world. There is field ripe for the
reaping; and the revelations uncon-
sciously made within it are such as to
explain the reason for class reticence on
class habits. In the advertising pages
every person who is referred to as past
purchaser is a millionaire" grand, If
somewhat overworked, word. The per-
sons thus described embrace apparently,
six -tenths of the entire adult population,
and their capacity for unusual things is
unlimited. Conspicuously, all OF them
have deserted the old-fashioned method
of providing music by manual exertion'
Their houses are crowded, according
to the advertisements, with automatic
pianos, organs, harps, zthers, self
blowing cornets and other ingenious
mechanical devices by which sound is
produced in graduated quantity and
unchanging quality. The sight pre-
sented by the home Of millionaire
must be impressive, and sufficiently
trying. The advertisements present
graphic description Of room after room
filed with these noise distributing ma
chimes. There cannot be time to hear
them play in turn, and their unfortunate
owner If he enjoys the fruits of his pur-
chases, must sit continually in the centre
OF a musical inharmony that would drive
less callous creature insane.
While the advertised "millionaires' sit
thus they drink great quantities of strong
waters which have been delivered to
them in disguise from distant manu-
factories A perusal of the advertise
ments convinces student that no mill
ionaire" or Representative first family"
purchases liquor, wine or beer in the
vulgar way. 1t is bought in sealed pack
ages, marked Books or From the
Y. NJ. C. A." and delivered by clerical
looking person, in order to deceive the
neighbors. Only the poor and lowly
have a dozen of beer" sent up in its
true colors The millionaire Of the ad-
vertising pages must have his delivered
in disguise.
| lHeIc are dC lSdsU d tiou'oi'A PiS
pared, pre-digested, almost pre-eaten,
foods which these secretive folks exist
upon. Scorning the beef and potatoes
on which some others sustain life, they
MUNICH at morning, noon and night re-
markable products with preposterous
names. For -millionaires such diet
might prove bore; but these mechani-
cal music enduring folk appear to thrive
upon it.
These are only three of the &c centrici-
ties of the people with well stuffed
purses. Their race is singular one.
These habits are simply samples of a
multitude. They can hardly be blamed
for repelling the advances of the sociol-
ogists, for their manner Of life is more
remarkable than was that of the cave
dwellers, the pygmies of Africa or the
aboriginal Australians. They have a
fondness for Turkish bath cabinets,
Leave them, each abnormality seated in
his steam bath cabinet, munching patent
foods, wet down with beer from bottle
labelled "har tonic listening to the
crashing of countless electric, steam and
gasolene noise engines, and let the so
biologists follow the trail here pointed
out until they have observed, weighed
and reduced these worthy objects OF
study to tabular form.