Show r THE CHANGE HANGE IN LIVING t ii Nothing perhaps shows so much the immense o l t changes of half a century as the changes in the H. H treatment of people in hotels and on transportation rt tion lines Fifty years ago if a man went to a aY Y hotel he h was as content J ten if he had a comfortable little room and good food N Now ow the ordinary man especially espe if he lie has plenty plent of money expects a hotel V superior to the tho ordinary palace in the old country k i and vastly better bette food and better etter service servie than old jt J Queen QU en Bess had in m her days O On the railroad lines th the same ideas prevail but the most splendid palace cars will do i Nothing t it has grown to be a habit fo for the rich richman man to 1st upon the having private draw drawing Dg room on the ahi ars It is still worse on lake and ocean steamers I t ll must be gorgeous and the transportation lines s rival each other in n adding splendors to their f rv day whether they be by ship or orv t i- i ii i conveyances every I J by r I v What fifty years rears ago would keep a man coms com com- s in a hotel for a week will not now get him hima a room room room- and cud a bath for on one one night The fact is that the ordinary I man who is prosperous and on the upgrade has ceased to dream about thousands he begins to look upon the ordinary millionaire as one who has not improved his opportunities and and it t takes a ten times millionaire now to attract any especial especial es es- es attention It is in that way that the mines of our states the Rand and western Australia Australia Australia Aus Aus- have in fifty years made a good many solid men very rich a great many shoddy men very foolish A ladys lady's wardrobe to be in society now costs b y limes wh what t it did fifty years vears co A gen gen- p in high society spends more for cigars an and champagne and other luxuries than his whole family used to spend when he was a boy for all their heir food and and clothing A nation traveling at such a pace needs to have lave a shrewd gov government over it because unless everything can be kept booming there will come a collapse one of these days and a good many men will have to do as did the ancient Egyptians long Before history began to be written They went without clothes and out of respect for the tile decencies decencies cies of life which were to be they painted their bodies odies the favorite color being green |