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Show TOO MUCH LUXURY. American people are suffering from a peculiar disease an insatiable craving for the luxuries of life. Time was when if we had a good home, plenty to eat, and to wear, and means of recreation and enjoyment, we were contented and happy. But not now. The more we get the more we want and the more we want the more feverish our efforts to get it. We never have enough are never satisfied. If our neighbor has a car, we long for one just a little better. If Jones has a house of beauty, Smith wants one of grandeur and magnificance. If Mrs. Smith is at the head of a social whirl, Mrs. Jones is not satisfied satis-fied until she has supplanted her. If one man is termed our leading citizen, a dozen others will aspire to the honor. An abundance of the necessities of life is not enough. We must have the luxuries, both for our own pleasure pleas-ure and to the outshine other people. peo-ple. And the list of life's luxuries is : so long and so varied that no man or ! woman has ever been known to reach I the end. j Millions of people forego many of jthe necessities of life in order to bask in the limelight or luxury. They .are lavish in adorning their persons and their surroundings at the expense ; of their stomachs. They enjoy the tinsel of life and endure the priva-: priva-: tions necessary in order to satisfy their vanity. The age of sanity is disappearing. That of frivolity is here. Modern day luxury is considered a blessing. In reality it is more of a curse, because we do do not realize j when economy ends and extravagance j begins. |