THE UN HAPPINESS OF RICH MEN.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7541, 3 May 1890, Page 2

THE UN HAPPINESS OF RICH MEN.

By Pendragon. We are all of us striving Iα our variou* ways to lay up wealth, and the eight o* anyone who ia known to possess so muois of it that he can't teli to a million or two how much he owns malice us ever in* cllned to prostrate tmr&elvea Wore hlras yet ia every case without exception that i has come under my notice the great maa himself seems overdone with weariness, borne down to eartb, ass it were, by the enormous weight of his possessions. Without going quite so far as to subscribe to the story that tells how the httpplesfc man, when found, couldn't render up his shirt because he hadn't gob one on, I ana f»)l sure that if you were on the ouesS for true happiness it would be folly to search in a millionaire's establishment fof It—unless, indeed, you confined your attentions to the denizens of the servants ball andkltehen. As It happens, ray test 19 pitched in the immediate neighbourhood of some of the wealthiest men to the world —you c, we are rather * mixed lot down at Brighton - sad IB happens as well that some years ep*» M» the pursuit of racing have glveft tea acquaintance with the faces and figures of others who own more money _ana land and property generally than m? can themaeivee compute without ftws» ance. They are not by any ***** merry family; most of thjra lookm•« and solemn as that king in English history who couldn't laugh-no, not 'even-who they tickled him. The absolutely a* happiest looking person I can as I wmo thie remember ia the noble persoa wwtt popularly supposed to be the richest WαowiierlnEogland, and whotbereforecmgii' not to be far off when the richest laminjuw world ia at last and Without any doob-of dißpute discovered. On the other xm, when I try to think of the happiest jjtf I ever met, there arises a choice m®& half-a-dozen, no one of whom sovereign, and whose very WS seemed to have come of the plentifol g» of all the good things of this worM »» waa possessed by them. *tn,im I shouldn't care to be botheredi *{**»•' million*; It would be such *»»«*»[JJ2 to die and leave it; besides, tnebvfgm is only to be found, co those whoWpiw know have told us often .«»««»•* limited incomes or on no l n e° *,hj.*»& ever. A cottage and contentand i auuw sort of thing, don't you know. AF M leg of mutton, my Lucy, And ptttf ready by three, See it's tender■and t«w some and juicy; And what can there be f A ride oat f<»»"§PK or a brisk walk, a pipe and a bo * , dinaer, a atroll round thegarfea,** I**1** at the geegee and the do**, *p%£ES£ on you in the evening, and »t»ttta tog" him; early to bed anH early to rhf> ,•**f appetite and a good digestion,-^£ the things, and not enormous rwaev«, v , alone mike life worth perhaps if we had all thi«. and "«*«£,, Sb, no hurryinß and worrying «JK and trouble of city life and should be hipped and dhconeolarf. « is it the poet says? *n<* ■*•• J ? °fll Sb o phrastoK JErom one who K'^Xwa couple ol thoueaad yeare W^*} I ?***! had learnt that raau never Jβ OS r Wgd to be blest:-" I've often *»**s* i J£ clear, For life six hundred «» s A handsome house to lodge.a river at my garden a end -*«•• » y result that when the wisher JftJ'gfwd required he waa etill dw»"»wft wondered how it was he ever ««* g«, expected to be content with sues The man who would most enjoy fc house and six hundred a taking the diffarence betweee ttopjjej d in R power of money in B w » ft " # "Sfort e» now, might be reckoned at not ""Bβ^ a couple of thou«an«-«ie ;n»e •Jβ^. most enjoy thie nnuse, niederate «J -^ f place yearly allowance would be ' &c Las in hi* had knor twenty {f the income, ha* Hved up to.end o > has fought hard and it up o? make it more, hwjWjegftel and has thea manajied out ot "»* "SJjw hi< once great fortunes to e»7 n e ffife'| a modest cot and competence »» "JjLeed evenlng-(i.e., a cot with a j the two thou. aforesaid), ftucfi » knew once, and I must add W"»' h tJ^ 0 r« his enjoyments were of a n™"* t UI peacefil and wflued- charecUffr | » JoTial proletariate already re^_7fe So tr3 The American miUtouairea didn't strike mc as beina , J"S»u«»J (n their happiness. Maefcay cad-eyed and silent; Flood end W „, were a coarse aod common wi the Boffiua; and », 'Souln travelled through the Sal Jfg?" known and up into the ««ouotaln*. »•" V<J as Tom t≤ wen, who was ea «, 4 ft «a ? ep - J a hundred million dollars oae and mine, which we saw bro.i«he which has by this t»n e .iSji|&i.thtaTpni him in another »« ndre^ n TKyß wUI be, Ewen*vastomethen,»nd«J Mj j nothing beyond a da 3 very common chap la » *- l *" v