In All Other Countries The Expectation Would Extend Itself
Simply To Travelers - To Travelers Or To Strangers Sojourning In The
Land.
But this is by no means the case as to these speculations in
America.
When the new hotel rises up in the wilderness, it is
presumed that people will come there with the express object of
inhabiting it. The hotel itself will create a population, as the
railways do. With us railways run to the towns; but in the States
the towns run to the railways. It is the same thing with the
hotels.
Housekeeping is not popular with young married people in America,
and there are various reasons why this should be so. Men there are
not fixed in their employment as they are with us. If a young
Benedict cannot get along as a lawyer at Salem, perhaps he may
thrive as a shoemaker at Thermopylae. Jefferson B. Johnson fails in
the lumber line at Eleutheria, but hearing of an opening for a
Baptist preacher at Big Mud Creek moves himself off with his wife
and three children at a week's notice. Aminadab Wiggs takes an
engagement as a clerk at a steamboat office on the Pongowonga River,
but he goes to his employment with an inward conviction that six
months will see him earning his bread elsewhere. Under such
circumstances even a large wardrobe is a nuisance, and a collection
of furniture would be as appropriate as a drove of elephants. Then
again young men and women marry without any means already collected
on which to commence their life.
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