Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . e agency of building associations, and placed on the road to moder-ate fortunes, there are sometimes two sides to the story. One side is thatrelated by the individual who has been saved from future poverty, and theother side that which could be related by the wife and mother, if she did notprefer
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . e agency of building associations, and placed on the road to moder-ate fortunes, there are sometimes two sides to the story. One side is thatrelated by the individual who has been saved from future poverty, and theother side that which could be related by the wife and mother, if she did notprefer and really strive to hide from the outside world the life she had beenleading, its trials and gloom. The man simply tells how many days in theweek he preferred not to work, and how he never tried to save a penny. Thewife could tell how little the husband brought into the home in the way ofmoney, and what her awful anxiety had been. One side is public property,for it is told by the husband for the purpose of inducing others to make anew departure on the road to thrift and home-ownership. The other side issupposed to be sacred, but it is only a secret in a sense that it is not pro-claimed. No man who is often voluntarily away from his work, having a 686 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY. ROW OF $1400 HOUSES. good selfish time, spending the earnings of days of actual work, needimagine that his friends and neighbors are ignorant of what the life in hishome is, for it is as plain to all as if the house was constructed of clear man of good health, who will make an honest and determined effort,has it in his power to change such a home as has been described into a palaceof joy, comfort, and happiness, and even beauty. There are many thousands of men and women throughout the land who would not to-day have their own roofover their heads but for the buildingsociety and the thrifty habits acquiredthrough it. The officers and members of thesesocieties are men who have,
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