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Show Comforts and Incomes. Scribiier's Magazine. The comforts of life, at the rate they are Increasing, bid fair to bury us soon, as Tar-pcia Tar-pcia was buried, under the shield of her friends the Sabincs. .Mi. Hamerton. in speaking of the increase of comfort in Eng. laud groaus at the "trying Irani of expense to which our extremely high standard of pving subjects all except ihe rich." It makes each individual of us very costly to keep, and constantly tempts people to concentrate on the maintenance of fewer individuals means that would in simpler times be divided among many. "My grandfather," said a modern, the other day, "left 'Jiiil.(K), He was con. lldered a ricii man in those days, but, dear nn-, lie suppoi 1' '"in or live families 'ill bis naed relations and all my irandmotb- er's." Think of an income of f 10,00b year being equal to such a strain, and providing suitably for a rich man's large family in the bargain! It wouldn't go so far now, and jet moat of the reasonable necessaries of llf' cost less today than they did two generations gen-erations ago. The dilfirence is that we need so very many cemfoyts that were not Invented in our grandfather's time. |