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Title: You and I;
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Etiquette Culture
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. (etc.) F. B. Dickerson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ressures are not felt, and the code is one easily conformedto. At his restaurant he can eat when, where and how hechooses, with no restraints beyond an observance of the mostcommon decencies of life. He may, moreover, call in his booncompanions and give his orders like a lord, and throw away,on a single repast, more than would serve as home-marketmoney for a month. The married club-man usually findsretrenchment very necessary — at home. The wife hears per-petually of hard times, that he may have easy times himself.She must be economical in order that he may be extravagant. 148 YOU AXD 1. She hears of expenses and retrenchments, and necessity ofstill greater economy in the home, until she feels life toocostly to live, yet dreads to die and so incur the expenses of a funeral! Theselfish life of the y* lH^;r • p% ( the unselfish life of;7^; _ the woman, her pa-^r^- tient, motherly toilis all unnoticed byhim, and both are.^P sacrificed to a falsewVy mode of living inwhich the wine and
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ir- Z! p/ZOfiJ Co//.)! EVENINGS AT THE CLUB. cigar bill plays no small part, and with which a true sniritof amenity has very little to do. CULTIVATE A DESIRE TO PLEASE. 149 The constantly added business avenues that open and alluremens energies, is another cause of lessening courtesy.Strength of brain and heart and muscle are absorbed to suchan extent that, often, a man is actually too tired to be polite!Life and health are given up to the acquirement of that drosswhich can purchase neither the one nor the other. When suchvalues are tossed ruthlessly away, there can be no hope thatthings deemed of lesser worth shall not follow. It is an ageof money, and men are willing to find their fame in their for-tunes. 1 Tis true that money goes where manner will not takeone; but, on the other hand, manner admits one free wheremoney could not force an entrance. Still, manner must go tothe wall in the estimation of him who devotes his life, his for-tune and his sacred honor to the accumulation of

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