The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-09

Bernard Shaw in Wiltshires Magazine.
 "HE millionaire class d small but
 growing one into which any of us
 may be flung tomorrow by the &C., cidents of commerce, is perhaps the most neglected in the community. In the ad- vertisements of the manufacturers of the country I find that everything is produced for the million and nothing for the mil lionare. Children, boys, youths, gents, :" ladies, artisans, professional men, even peers and kings are catered for, but the millionaire's custom is evidently not worth having-there are too few of him. While the poorest have the Bag Gair, a duly organized and busy market in Houndsditch, where you can buy a boot for penny, you may search the world in vain for the market where the $25O boots the special dear line of hats at forty guneas the cloth-of-gold bicycling suit, and the Cleopatra claret, four pearls to the bottle, can be purchased wholesale. Thus the unfortunate milli- onaire has the responsibility of prodigious wealth without the possibility of enjoying himself more than any ordinary rich man.
 Indeed. in many things he cannot en- ioys himself more than many poor men dc nor even so much; for drum-major is better dressed; trainers stable-lad often rides a better horse; everybody Who poes down to Brighton for Sunday rides in the Pullman; and of what use IS it to be able to pay for a peacocRs praiii sandwich when there is nothing to De had but ham or beef?
 man with an income of $500 year
 hi hnXOnd culations by doubling his income A man with s450 a year can at least quadruple his comfort by doubling his income, Frop- abIy up to even 5000 year doubled in- come means doubled comfort. Alter that the increment of comfort grows less III proportion to the increment of income uh- i'll a point Is reached at which the vlctim is satiated and even surfeted with every thing that money can procure. To expect him to enjoy another hunored thousand dollars because men like money IS eX- actly as if you were to expect contec- tioner's shop boy to enjoy TWO hours more work day because boys are iond oi sweets. The poor alone are pitied. Societies snring LID in all directions to relieve all sorts of comparatively happy people, from discharged prisoners in the first rapture of their regained liberty to children re- yelling in the luxury of an unlimited ap- petite but no hand IS Slrelcneu Out 'o the millionaire except to beg.
 And please remember that his plight is getting worse and worse with the ad- vance of civilization. The capital, the en- ergy, the artistic genius that used to tram themselves for the supply Of beautliu things to rich men now turn to supply the needs of the gigantic proletariats Of mod ern times.
 The very millionaire himself when he becomes a railway director is forced tc turn his back on his own class ana ad' init that it Is the third-class traihc tha pavs. If he takes shares in hotel, h' learns that it is safer, as matter ol commercial policy, to turn lord ane has retinue out of doons than to disobls' a drummer or bicyclist in the smalies reasonable particular.
 He cannot get his coat made to nt nm without troublesome trydns-on and al teratons unless he goes to the cheal ready-made tailors, who monopolize al the really expert cutters, because then suits must fit infallably at the first at tempt if the low prices are to be mad' to pay.
 The old fashioned tradesman, servli to the great man and insolent to th earner of weekly wages, is now beatei in the race by the universal provider who attends more carefully to the four penny customer than to the mammoth