The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-11-18
New Life ofEngland.
From the London Spectator.

The fear OF moderate poverty-a fear which governed h Victorian
fears. We 10 not mean that we nay al experienced it. A portion of the
English middle class have as we IL know, been very much enriched by the.
war, but a much larger portion have been impoverished. There is not now.
however, a prosperous man who does nt count among his close friends if
not among his near relations people who before the a lived like the rich
n must o live very like the poo Seer either from the outside or the
inside, the change is less tremndous than it usd 70 be supposed. Those
who have experienced it n those who have watched it agree that it's
terrors "a be easily exaggerated. Riches o not carry with them a sense
of security hat they used to carry, o sudden poverty thu sense of de-
spair The financial outlook of rich ad poo alike lis nt SO much dark
as 1toggy' Nothing "a re distinguished in regard to future events. The
rich young man doe lot feel.easy about future legislation, the Nor
W Mi ms mennor he Knows thu tn peculiar circumstances which blew
the bank notesi into their laps ia never occur again, yet he cannot help
hoping lat het toe may nave luck. Anyhow, everything is uncertain ut the
present n each is Determined to enjoy what he has got, b. it little or
much, while lie has got it.
When people determine to enjoy their money. md seem isinchned to-
acknowledge their duty toward it," their old fashioned friends imagine
that they must be determined to make IN ignoble use of it,. to chuck it
This view is getting to be regarded as absurd. More han half h world.
though they IA fall occasionally into various extravagances and wicked
They intend to use it to buy what they want, and that is lot what the Vic
torans wanted-namely, security. Every N of course, wants security from
10 desire, a IS Int Victorians desired. to keep for their YES and leave to-
their children the same good seats in the theater of life. They want good
stalls n s to the gaIery-wen, they will find many friends and rea-
tons there already who seem to be greatly enjoying the play.
The mass Of educate people have found a new courage wherem money is
what seems 90 h bimItbeh best est pnssYae p edncattion hut TH hec ann Of DO Iu " n n5h nn
spending capital, without taking the risk of having o Give differently"
altogether. A few years ago sucha nan would have sighed INC said lie was
risk with a light heart Suppose, again, that ho has a chance Of greatly
improving his business if he is prepared to put 20 much money into it as
standard. The young mar Of today would be far more likely o take thu
chance than his father would have been. All this is not because the devil
precautonh e can take to tic his property to him is infalible, n also that
he n dhsc children will not necessarily be much lessh happy because they
have much lessm money. Probably his cousins, and half his friends apd the
children with whom his w children were brought up He Elm thu simplest
manner possible appear to be just az happy, just a capable, and just
a s we'll looked upon socially a S he is himself
Domestic servants in deserving their masters have to a great extent
enfranchised them. There are w ends to a bell rope and it is uncertain
to which end liberty is attached The middle and upper classes had until
lately IN absolute passion for attendance. They could not. have broken
themselves oft the servant habit but the servants broke them, and forced
them to find other tests Of social position than the ridiculous n of per-
soma dependents