by instinct, thoug herited inhibition on-in the end

be beyond

n

pocketbooks. that the combination of plain livin thinking is a difficult one; I fancy it difficult in the world. "The hand o ployment hath the daintier sense.' obliterate the coarser contacts, as sible, not by engaging other people burden of those coarser contacts, ing, as we can, the machinery that to them impersonally. We shall " to the limit of our incomes, losing repeat, many of the amenities whi civilize. We shall not sleep soft, w live high, and we shall do witho beauty to a painful extent. We sh cramped quarters, and if we achie nity of one spacious room, that will deal. We cannot hope to furnish But if we have a dollar to spend on excess, we shall spend it on a bo asparagus out of season. If we hav we shall not go to Europe or would be beyond our means; but w some quiet spot where there will [ 33 ]

thout mastery to human exper they are not th sly come by; the ed. You will n viki, or from t . Arthur Hende adays about pr the practical ma e. Before you ca t have the ide world of abstra r, leaders of the d more stress cial matter. Pe elieve it. I shoul ration was ab igion itself. B that Christian little else, deri do-from Christ

ur tablets. We shall not compete with, fere with, the lords of this world. We o our modest work, and receive our pay, and by a corresponding modesty and temper we shall disarm, we hope, ympathetic and uncomprehending. Our n cannot be of this world; and instead plaining and criticizing, we must apply es to realizing that our compensations made greater than our losses. We shall ionately concerned with humanity; the o, that we shall endeavor to be aware voice of God as well as of the voice of ple. We shall not be snobs in any sense; shall have the same charity for other s choices that we beg them to have for esides, snobbishness dies out quicklyrica, at least―among the impoverished. those who find all this an intolerable Il dub it Utopian. A counsel of perfecertainly is. But the higher the standard for ourselves the less likely we are to with a low one. And if we merely drift, ve shall find ourselves getting nothing[34]

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of this world. W and receive sponding mode disarm, we h mprehending. Or orld; and inst

g, we must app ur compensation r losses. We shal th_humanity; t avor to be awar as of the voice

obs in any sens charity for othe them to have f es out quickly he impoverishe is an intolerabl ounsel of perfe her the standar likely we are t we merely drift getting nothing

interest would suggest our having; not lose everything. And with the r ity will come some of the compe earlier simplicity. The man who things gets more pleasure out of on the man who has a hundred. Perha capture the "joy in widest commonal A rose will always be cheaper than pear, and it is quite possible to much and as vividly. We shall be ve I have no doubt, to Thomas Edis other genii of democracy. In som shall fare better than folk of o Europe. We must thank our stars fo -itself a "joy in widest commonal But we shall value it chiefly as it re for better things, and those better physical pleasures.

Not only shall we not glorify ou with marble; we shall see that the no sense in marble when porcelain well-that marble has better uses be kept for them. Not only shall ermine to shield us from the cold; v

seen

enjoyment-we shall cling to with For in keeping that we rob no one, and o law. I am far from believing that up of people can achieve all this with eness. But I believe we shall do well before us as a goal.

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a time, sh

local milli resemble i tropolis. year, you unperturbe high in N fate of the statement one of the at once th absurdum milliner sp cialism in rigidly to allegiance tardily con cisely the ion is not s The sen

so many ot

expressed than in the retort on a friend of mine, in one of our mor tive New England towns. Sojournin a time, she had reason to order a local milliner. When she tried it on resemble in the least the headgear tropolis. "They are wearing hats ve year, you know," she protested. "AB unperturbed reply, "they are wea high in Newburyport." I do not ren fate of the hat-which is unimporta statement has remained with me fo one of the most significant imagina at once the glorification and the r absurdum of modishness. My frien milliner spoke in the same spirit. I cialism in dress consists merely i rigidly to the avant-dernier cri. Th allegiance may be, in the provinc tardily come up with; but the rigi cisely the rigidity of the rue de la ion is not simply a question of long

The sense of mode might be com so many other things have been, the