The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-26
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
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 (Fifty Years Hence.) I believe that in the next generation t tn,rn wiIi be vulgar te be rich; vulgar tS Dwight Hills
 THE MOTHER Come my darling, cone away
 From those dressed-up children For their father yesterday
 Got to be millionaire;
 Or I'll have to wieid the switch They have ceased to have good taste. It is vulgar to be rich.
 THE MAIDEN.
 Nay. 1t nearly breaks my heart.
 But I cannot be your own; You must leave me. we must part. oI aladnss; @ ,s from .I my r sssrt D has nown. Once you lAbored m The diteh-- But you're now a millionaire.
 And it's vulgar to be rich
 THE HUSBAND. Darling, 'tis the only course!
 You're an heiress now, you khow; l must get me divorce-
 Oh. but 'tis a crushing blow! If your uncle had not made
 All these millions out of pitch. Gladness with us might have stayed It is vulgar to be rich.
 THE CAPTAIN or INDUSTRY. Colleges and libraries
 Sending all my money backt All the old-time charities
 Closed to me, alas, alackl
 Not an avenue through which may send my wealth sEsy--
 Chicago Record-Herald.
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 vulgarity anA Arisfeereey Saturday Review.
 The founders of every 1ristocsacy have been rude, unlettered. ignorant. brimming over with energy in brutal forms, distinguished among savage contemporaries by being more fercely savage, asertive, domineering. selfish ly ambitious and regardless of rights that opposed their own ruthless en- ergy of nature. What were such men as these if they were not of the type which subsequently,. after centuries Of repression by civilization Of exuberant egoism, became known as that of the virile vulgarian, unpleasant in manner, but likely on the modern stage to re- peat with modern variations the ex- ploits of the founders of the aristoc. racy of whom he Is a survival? Tn the course of time thearistocrattc class is the one which rescnts most the in- trusion of the manners Of its own an- cestors; and we become indebted to it for a model which we all admire but lind too expensive to initiate. Most of us must still cultivate ourselves nc. cording to the earlier standard of cn- ergy-that to which he who has to rise in life must render practical aliegi. ance, however much he may admire the other in the abstract. When families have attained a settled station in so- ciety the occupation of their members are always chosen as remote as possible from those that require rough energy for their successful pursuit Family pride is in proportion to the degree in which separation can be maintained from those energetic vulgarians who have had recent success of a kind which excites the envy. but not less the contempt. of the family of the cioistered virtues. They envy tho practical abilities which have won money that is eagerly desired but can not be earned by people who have be- come too refined for anything but spending 1t.
 In England the vuigarians do not triumph socially and politically now, for England is an old country, and wealth and power have collected into families-the quiet, languid and deep reservoirs filled from the turbulent, dashing and foaming springs which rose in the wild. shaggy moors of bar barism In ages ago. Tn America the men of energy. the millionaires. the money makers. the wire-pullers of the markets and of politics. are of the vulgarian type. The more cultivated classes, thoe who have less of the nat ural energy of character which exists among the masses have the least act ual power. Americans at one time had a tradition more like our own, and they admired in theory. as we do. the man of culture and refinement rather than the rough and energetic charac- ter, raw and uncouth. undisciplined. unrestrained, self-confident because not instructed into modesty and difa- dence by contemplation of high thoughts of the universe and Of the heights and depths of the mysteries of God and man.
 But in time the Americans. as we