The inertia due to the home feeling is consequently also slight.

At the same time the wages in the trade are high enough to make movement from place to place relatively easy.

The result is a great mobility of the labor employed in printing; perhaps greater than in any other equally well-defined and considerable body of workmen.

These men are constantly thrown in contact with new groups of acquaintances, with whom the relations established are transient or ephemeral, but whose good opinion is valued none the less for the time being.

The human proclivity to ostentation, reenforced by sentiments of good-fellowship, leads them to spend freely in those directions which will best serve these needs.