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Show GLAMOUR OF WEALTH. Dear old Tom! Again is he chiding me for my garrulous optimism and "eccentricities." He tells me that, with all my "assumed lofty disdain for vulgar riches," he notices that I am but little less prone to "pander" to the rich than is the average aver-age American citizen. As Tom, with all his penchant for the disagreeable disagree-able role of self-constituted censor, is really disposed dis-posed to be honest in his every utterance and is, withal, a keen and shrewd observer of men and events it is, indeed, these sterling qualities that endear the boorish chap to all honest men. in spite of his boorishness his criticism has set me to thinking; and shame-facedly must I confess that I am forced to suspect that his observations, .in this instance, are not without their moiety of justification. just-ification. Now, I ask, how account for the mighty potency of the glamour that accompanies the mere possession posses-sion of wealth so potent that even so inveterate a contemner of vulgar riches" as myself is unable to withstand it? And I must frankly admit, because of my public professions of abhorrence of all subterfuge or conscious evasion of the exact truth, that the rich are, to my mind subconsciously, as . it were, and despite my world-philosophy to the contrary eveloped by an atmosphere of an altogether alto-gether finer texture than that breathed by ordinary ordi-nary less fortunate mortals. AH in vain do I seek for a satisfactory solution of this vexing and poignantly humiliating prob-I prob-I lem: for what, in sooth, can be more humiliating to one of my ideality-inclined temperament than I tho suspicion -nay, the conviction! that he. in common with the vulgar herd, is prone though, for the most, all unconsciously to pay homage to mere, ignoble, riches ? My intellectual ruminations lead me, however, into a maze of raore-or-less curious and interesting speculation, as follows: Is it, I solicitously ask myself, but a natural and altogether reasonable inclination to pay due tribute to uncommon refinement and nobility of manners? Be it remembered that, the world-renowned Emmerson, with all his spirituality that peculiar brand of soul-loftiness yclept Transcendentalism; Trans-cendentalism; with all his lofty disdain for aught that is merely accidental and transitory ; with all his loyal devotion to the higher a nd-morc subtle realities reali-ties of the Nature-God the "over-soul" and that sort of thing nevertheless pays the most glowing tribute to "Manners." It cannot, therefore, be ignoble ig-noble in any one to do homage to noble manners, under whatever circumstances and environment they may be encountered. If I should be reminded that the rich are not necessarily in possession of a monopoly on charm-ingness charm-ingness of manners, I might justly retort that it is at least more common among them than among the mass of mankind, and that I am therefore justified in suspecting its presence whenever I encounter en-counter one of the class; and that, therefore, my "subconscious" homage is. in reality, but due homage hom-age paid a noble "entity" that is duly recognized and justified by the Transcendental Emmerson, and, hence, that I am not to be-accused of ignoble:, ness of character on this score, at least. But, when I earnestly consult with my innermost inner-most consciousness, I am forced to conclude that the foregoing solution of the problem that I am fondly mooting does not really solve anything. I then ask myself: Is it, forsooth, because this ignoble idolatry of wealth is so all-pervading that one unconsciously imbibes it with the very air he breathes the moral and mojital atmosphere which constitutes his daily environment so that his moral constitution becomes impregnated with the loathsome virus in spite of his higher and better nature: is it, in reality, because he is, necessarily, controlled, in common with all his race, by Em-merson's Em-merson's "Over-Soul" and, finding himself in Rome, must, perforce, howl with the Romans? And this las' reflection invariably restores me to my habit-uv". habit-uv". serious mood, and I conclude as follows: If each and every integral part of the human race must, in the very nature of things, be dominated- by the ideas and ideals that dominate the race as a whole, does it not behoove each and every individual, who may be conscious that the ideas and ideals that commonly animate society are ignoble and base, to earnestly exercise his morc-or-less efficacious influence to elevate them? If, to be swayed by the glamour of riches is to yield to a base and ignoble impulse and no nobly rational ra-tional being, in his saner moods will, I take it, be disposed to deny that this is undoubtedly so were it not well to labor to effectually dissipate this miasmatic glamour? And how labor to this end? By once morn causing to prevail the Christian ideals, with all their primeval vigor and verility! "It is as easy for a camel to pass through the eve of a needle as for a rich man to rnrop tho Ki :?. dom of Heaven." If this truth were cvrr-pr,it to our minds to the minds ot the pco,.!,. wJ,olv-would not the objectionable glnm,,;- . ih even like the mist before the rays ..t ti. . , sun. think you ? Again. "Blessed are ti. , If it follows, by inference, that riches arc -.. vhall we not put an end to the folly of - But, alack, if this fond e.-say c-i',1,, - 'l',.;.,-, eye. how he will castigate me for this h.f.-: . . bit ion of my "garrulity" and imd.-r. with ,.i. . ... talizing sneer, upon knowing wliat ;;:' : phase my next "bad break" will assume ! S ... ; hear his ponderous tread on the. fir-r : at this very moment, I will haste !,, t j hide these dutifully inscribed page.-, and hi"- f . their publication in the Interniouut nn ;. for who has ever known an incurable j.,.,-.;,. be a reader of that journal? Or. rath- r. i ' I ask: Who has ever known a reader ot ti, ; to be an incurable pessimist .'The Owi ; , |