CHAPTER XXVII.
The Honorable Thomas Vivian first started the Wealth Producing and Distributing Society when but a young man, and though he is only middle aged now, he is more honored than any other man in the country. Hundreds have formed societies as he did, still all looked up to him as their head and superior. The latter he objected to, for he claimed that every locality should place their best managers at the head and then conduct the business so that those who excelled could have the credit of their own ability.
It only takes four or five years to show what kind of people are at the head of any enterprise, then after each separate colony has proved its standing, it should be recognized by the older branches, always in business and honors also. It had been proved a wonderful incentive to the good morals and honesty of the society, to confer titles and whole neighborhoods were known by their prevailing sentiments, even if they were peculiar regarding their ideas. If one branch found that another was not truthful and honest as a whole society, they declined to do business with them, or look upon their titled members as their equals, therefore all aimed to be worthy of the highest honors, each in their own locality.
It gave women a better title than Miss or Mrs., for marriages were not always a mark of honor in those days. Then, besides, women did not lose their identity as they did before in marriage. It was considered that titles were a step higher for them. Each man and woman was known by their own merits and if the names were changed itwas a combination of both names, or they kept their own; or if they wished to keep the old custom it was no one’s business. Still the wife was the Hon. Mary, etc.
No society could regulate these things, but all right-living people lived so as to be an honor to the cause, continually keeping the greatest good to the largest number in view.
Again we find the Vivian family assembled to honor their mother’s birthday. The grand-children with their husbands and wives make up a good-sized crowd by themselves, but they cannot outdo their parents’ enthusiasm in making this the happiest birthday the mother and grandmother has had in years, and here we leave them to enjoy the fruit of their labors.
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