. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . iquor-seller will not even set up in his bar-room a specimen of his work ; he puts up blinds at the doorsand screens at the windows to hide his work from the ]by; but the shoemaker and the tailor exhibit their work intheir windows, andshow what they havemade out of the rawmaterial. The tailor, whenhe has finished a newcoat, places it whereit may he seen by thegreatest number of icustomers : when theshoemaker has fin-ished a first-class pairof boots, he placesthem in his window,because the exhibi-tion tends to increasehis trade. With the
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . iquor-seller will not even set up in his bar-room a specimen of his work ; he puts up blinds at the doorsand screens at the windows to hide his work from the ]by; but the shoemaker and the tailor exhibit their work intheir windows, andshow what they havemade out of the rawmaterial. The tailor, whenhe has finished a newcoat, places it whereit may he seen by thegreatest number of icustomers : when theshoemaker has fin-ished a first-class pairof boots, he placesthem in his window,because the exhibi-tion tends to increasehis trade. With theliquor-seller it is quitedifferent. lie isashamed of his fin-ished work ; with himthe raw material isalways worth more than the finished article. Were heto exhibit that, lie would lose his trade. No wonder he isashamed 1 exhibit his work. In the worlds great exhibitions you have seen finishedarticles of nearly every manufacture, from a tooth-pickto a locomotive, and the exhibitors were anxious to ex-plain the method of manufacture, or the texture of the. A TiaTIIFlI. -le\. A GOOD SPECIMEN. 599 woven fabrics. Almost every conceivable specimen of mansingenuity and skill was there represented, — from the rawmaterial to the finished article. But there was one specimenof manufacture absent. I remember, at the Mechanics Fairin Boston, many years ago, being struck with this fact, andon mentioning it to DeaconMoses Grant, he proposed toapply to the managers forpermission to exhibit a speci-men of the liquor-sellerswork. He knew a man whowas once worth $40,000, win iwas then debased and ruinedthrough drink, who agreedfor a dollar a day to stand inthat fair with a label in frontof him, which read as follows:I was once worth $40, was once respected andrespectable. I once moved in !good society. Such things asI am now are made out of suchmen as I once was. Pleasegive us a premium for one ofthe best specimens to be
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