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Show The City Society had gotten itself separated into two distinct of Tagaste classes-those who worked with their hands & those who worked with their heads. And those who worked with their heads thought it disgraceful (or at least very bad form) to work with their hands. Many of those who used their heads flocked to the cities and called the people who lived in the country, names -such as Hayseed, Rube and Buckwheat. Those people who used their hands had no energy left nor inclination to use their heads, after the day's work was done; and they often grew dispirited, dissipated and vicious; and those who used only their heads suffered from Bright's Disease, Paresis & N ervous Prostration. Both classes ceased to live in the open air. But the wealth drifted into the possession of those who used their heads. They lived in a sort of barbaric splendor like Turkish Pashas, and were much given to buying things. They were unhappy & restless, and always in search of some new thrill which might make them forget the misery of their condition. To kill time, the women did what they called "Shopping." That is, they passed through the streets where the shop windows were tern ptingl y filled with things, and the rich women whose husbands worked with their heads clawed over things & bought things -they bought things to put in their mouths, to put 4 on their heads, a~d on their backs. And then they The City ord.ered other things put into bundles and sent to of Tagaste their homes. Of course they did not need all these things, and the result was that their houses got so full of things that many servants had to be employed to take care of them. And these servants were more of a care than the things. Then the owners still find-ing themselves uneasy, restless and discontented-not knowing what was the matter-concluded they had not bought the right things. So they went out and bought more things. And the husbands of these women who bought the things schemed eternally with their heads to get money to pay the servants who looke.d after the things, and to buy more things; and sometimes these men noticing that in the library a shelf was not quite full, telephoned down to a Dry Goods Store thus: "Send me up three dozen books-all discounts off--rush r " 'These people who worked only with their heads often drove horses with half a tail; the women bought birds to decorate their bonnets, and no one seemed to know that a bird in the bush is worth two on a woman's hat. And the men so conducted the civil engineering of the cities, that the sewage and filth of the factories were run in to the rivers and the fish all killed. To talk of bathing in a river was a big joke to them. They also polluted the air so that a 5 |