The Passing of the Idle Rich

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Frederick Townsend Martin. The Passing of the Idle Rich

The Passing of the Idle Rich

Table of Contents

Chapter One THE KINGDOM OF SOCIETY

Chapter Two THE MADNESS OF EXTRAVAGANCE

Chapter Three THE SUBJUGATION OF AMERICA

Chapter Four WHO ARE THE SLAVES?

Chapter Five THE AWAKENING OF SOCIETY

Chapter Six FOR THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER

Chapter Seven THE TRIBUNE OF THE PEOPLE

Chapter Eight FIGHTING FOR LIFE

Chapter Nine THE SOCIAL NEMESIS

Chapter Ten THE DEATH KNELL OF IDLENESS

Chapter Eleven THE END OF THE STORY

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Frederick Townsend Martin

Published by Good Press, 2021

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A well known metropolitan spender has an annual bill of some ten thousand dollars for shoes alone. His order stands in every manufactory in America and Europe. Whenever a new style of men’s shoes is designed, a sample pair is immediately shipped to him. He cannot possibly wear a tenth of the shoes sent to him, but he has the satisfying knowledge that he is never behind the style.

The wife of a Western man owns a pet monkey. The little beast lives in a private room and is constantly attended by a valet. It rides abroad behind its private trotter, has its own outfit of clothes, its dining table, and a bed made of solid ivory, tipped with gold ornaments. All told, perhaps a dozen human beings minister to the comfort of the little simian and the mistress cheerfully pays from ten to fifteen thousand dollars yearly on this one extravagance. She became dissatisfied with the dining service in the monkey-room of her home, and her pet now eats its meals off solid silver plates.

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