The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-10-19
ERRATIC, PERHAPS, BUT BENEFICIAL.

ERRATIC, PERHAPS, BUT BENEFICIAL.
There is some good in nearly everything if it can
Just be pointed out. Quite recently newspaper
writer's have been furnishing the public with all the
details of the extravaganza of young New Yorker,
who has engaged apartments at metropolitan hotel
1t cost of fortune year, and who has arranged
FOR filtered air and other things of like nature. Most
of us, perhaps have put the young fellow down
for crazy, but he is, if we accept the Examiner s
version of it, quite public benefaetor Our San
Francisco contemporary says:
very tall young man, named Mr. Thomas, has
rented in New York city hotel apartment for him
self and wife at the rate of fortyfve thousand dol
lars per year. Mr.. Thomas father worked hard,
young Mr. Thomas is playing hard-which is good
thing.
When one man rolls up SNOWFALL, the best
possible thing is for the sun to melt it. And when
father rolls up a great money ball, the best pos
Mhe thing usually, is for the son to melt that
In the course of melting his money ball Mr.
Thomas has rented these very fine apartments and
the reporters describe them in detail The air in
the room is filtered; dust and microbes have to
stay outside There is an arrangement which makes
possible for the rich young man to regulate the
temperature by merely turning dial
The ordinary individual reading the description
Of Mr.. Thomas apartments would think it useless
waste, foolish extravaganza. But the ordinary indi-
vidual would be mistaken, as usual The wild lux
ury of today is the ordinary mans way of living
tomorrow. Those things which we all take for
granted now would recently have been looked upon
as foolish, insane extravaganza
The great Queen Elizabeth had no spring bed,
no carpet on her floor, alright windows no bath
tnh of hot and cold water.
She would have been vastly surprised could she
have been told that in the American country. of
which Drake and Raleigh told her wild stories,
there would one day live millions of people with
carpets their foors bath tubs in their flats, and
running water everywhere
Only few years ago the man who wanted to
nee pipes laid to supply water would have been com
Pelled to dig up some ancient Roman bath Today
the laws of civilized city compel the owner to
supply running water, even to the poorest tenement
house dweller
Everybody ought to breathe pure filtered air
every person especially the mother of young chill
aren-should be able to regulate the temperature
Of an apartment at will.
The "extravagant" features of Mr. Thomas liv- |
ing rooms will be ordinary everyday commonpaces
before long. Someone must begin by encouraging |
such things and it might as well be young Mr.. |
Thomas who has the money and who is not other.
wise engaged
Such young are useful in paying for ex-
Pensive extravaganza in the way of health devices
fast automobiles, or other useful inventions Their
automobile toy of today will in the future be used
by workingmen, and will curb the railroad and
xtreet car trusts
The ordinary citizen would consider Mr.. Thomas
apartments very luxurious, compared with his own
But Queen Elizabeth, before mentioned, would
look with envy at the living arrangements of the or
binary suburban commuter
She had to wear nightcap to keep her from
sneezng; she had to have her bed ironed with pan
Of hot Goals to drive away the dampness; she had
more than thousand dresses but not a cake Of de-
cent SOAP nor porcelain tub nor steam heat, DOR
decent carriage
Mrs Jones, out in the suburbs, is better off than
she was And in few years Mrs Jones will be
living more comfortably than Mr.. Thomas is living
ROw. He is a pioneer, and he is useful-hke the
man who risks his life in flying machine