It is a matter of taste and convenience wholly.

I have read that in old times people often kept up establishments and did other things which they could not afford for ostentation, to make people think them richer than they were.

Was it really so, Mr.West ?" "I shall have to admit that it was," I replied.
"Well, you see, it could not be so nowadays; for everybody's income is known, and it is known that what is spent one way must be saved another." [1] I am informed since the above is in type that this lack of perfection in the distributing service of some of the country districts is to be remedied, and that soon every village will have its own set of tubes..