Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wealth. said that rent did not affect the customer, in that it did not affect the price of food, and moreover did not affect the wages of the laborer, understanding laborer in the English sense, as the man who tilled the soil under the payment of the tenant farmer. The laborer's wages were regulated by the supply and demand of labor. The theory of rent could not apply to capital invested in improvements on land. There was no rent paying land, but there was not any no-interest paying capital. The interest on capital invested in land...
Some of the professors are as fashionably clad as a farmer who has never even seen a city-cut garment. Professor - passed my window this morning, taking a walk, for he did not learn the antics of the gymnasium in his college days, and still holds to the old-time constitutional in the open air. He dresses so plainly, and with so little regard to modern style, that he looks positively quaint. Another equally learned professor, whom I met the other day, dresses also very plainly and unfashionably. Their manners are so unaffected and simple, with all their learning...
...Boston, the perennial Denman Thompson appears as Joshua Whitcomb. The house will be crowded at every performance, as is the wont whenever Mr. Thompson presents his laughable characterization of the New England farmer. Season after season he "continues to delight crowded audiences," as the show bill says, until it has become a wonder in the theatrical world, that a piece of such trifling character, or rather a conglomeration of such commonplace incidents, should meet with such uninterrupted success...
TOOTSY SWIDGER was a farmer's daughter, and had lived all her life at Esquopaug, a small town of New Hampshire. She had been invited to visit Cambridge by her aunt, Prudence Meeker, a very aesthetic lady, and one who moved in the most cultured society. A few words will suffice to describe Tootsy. Her hair fell in liquid, melting ringlets over her high and classic forehead; her eyes were wavy and dreamy in their expression; she had a fascinating little "nez retrousse," and teeth of pearly whiteness; her lips were ruddy, and appeared tempting in the soft sunlight...