Lynn Thompson
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669 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lynn Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Velvets must go up and homespun must come down.
And the question is
How does the coat fit?
Not who wears it.
The power that bears the tides of excited population up and down our streets and rocks the world of commerce and thrills all nations, transatlantic and cis Atlantic is clothes.
It decides the last offices of respect, and how long the dress shall be totally black, and when it may subside into spots of grief on silk.
Calico or gingham.
Men die in good circumstances.
but by reason of extravagant funeral expenses are well nigh insolvent before they get buried.
Many men would not die at all if they had to wait until they could afford it.
Excessive fashion is productive of a most ruinous strife.
The expenditure of many households is adjusted by what their neighbours have
Not by what they themselves can afford to have, and the great anxiety is as to who shall have the finest house and the most costly equipage.
The weapons used in the warfare of social life are not minier rifles and dalgrem guns, and hotchkiss shells, but chairs and mirrors and vases and goblins and axminsters.
Many household establishments are like racing steamboats propelled at the utmost strain and risk, and just coming to a terrific explosion.
Who cares, say they, if we only come out ahead?
There is one cause today of more financial embarrassment and of more dishonesties than this determination at all hazards to live as well or as better than other people.
There are persons who will risk their eternity upon one fine looking glass, or who will dash out the splendours of heaven to get another trinket.
My house is too small.
But says someone, you cannot pay for a larger.
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