“My house is too small.” "But” says some
one "you cannot pay for a larger.” “Never
mind that, my friends have a better residence
and so will I.” "A dress of that stylo and
material I must have. I cannot afford it by a
great deal; but who cares for that ? My neigh
bor had one from that pattern, and ‘l must
haue one.” There are scores of men in the
dungeons of the penitentiary who risked
honor,business, everything, in the effort to
shine like others. Though the Heavens fall
they must be “in the fashion.”
The most famous frauds of the day have re
sulted from this feeling. It keeps' hundreds
of men struggling for their commercial exist
ence. Tho trouble is that some are caught
ami incarcerated if their larceny bo small. If
it be great they escape and build their castle
on the Rhine. Men get into jail not became
they steal but because they did not steal
enough.
