The Average Parlor

There are parlorg helonging to rich man who are the sous of ricb men, who have been educated carefully and who have traveled and seen all that there is to be seeu of tüe splendid and beautiful, aud yet, though their roouis are full of the external evidenoes of wealth and travel, the thingH seam unhappy, the colora all "swear at one anothor," as the French artistic slang has it, the chairs and tables, like people too early at a country party, are waiting for an introduotion, and the taste, iff taste it may be callod, in the pictures and brica-brac is so discordant that, if the ownor really likus ouo-half of thom, we cannot understand how he should be ablo to tolérate the othur half. Of oourse it is not fair always to judgo the owner of Otte of thnRC mul tifariouH drawing-rooms by what ho puta forward as his own taste. In niño casos out of ton it is not his tasto at all, but the taste of the town, and he has meekly put himsolf into the hatids of the fasbionable furnisher. We might as wcll lay the charge of the thoatrical, vulgar paraphernalia of a modern, first-class funeral at the door of the dead man upon wliose unresisting body all these hidoous " rloral emblein" are piled, The fashionable undertakor sits upon him wlion dead, and the fashiouable furnisher sat on him wheti alive. We oannot judge of his biste until he shows it ; until he takes his own house into his own hands, and iiiakcs it to bis own mind. It is to persuade people to do this that these papers are written, but the writer is not very hopeful of persuading any but young people and those who havo a natural indepsndenoe. Rich people are for the most part 60 bullied by their money they don't dare to do what thoy would like. And people who are wel' on in Ufe do not, as a rule, tako enough interest in the subject. They find olc