Foolish Extravagance

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 20, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 42.

Foolish Extravagance.

A Transvaal millionaire, visiting the Vienna Industrial Exposition, took a fancy to a ladies’ wheel, which secured the first prize for costliness of material. He determined to purchase it for his wife. It was inlaid in gold and beautifully carved. The price paid amounted to $500. He then took it to a Vienna jeweler, where he ordered nearly a half million dollars’ worth of diamonds and precious stones to be inserted in the frame. So says a New York paper. This is only an example of multitudes of such instances where men are so rich they know not what else to do with their wealth. But, O, why do they not feed the poor?