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Show Artificial Wants. Many a one, for tho uuke of finery on tho back, has gone with a hungry belly and halt-starved their families. "Silk and satin, scarlot and velvets," as Poor nichard says, "put out tho kitchen flro." These aro not the necessaries nec-essaries of llfo; they can scarcely ho called tho conveniences; and yet only becauso thoy look pretty, how many want to havo them! Tho artificial xteJ wants of mankind thus becomo more H numerous than tho natural; and as ' Poor Dick says: "For one poor person, thero aro a hundred Indigent." Benjamin Ben-jamin Franklin. |