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212 Strictly Business
but none of it touched Jacob's hands in a raw state. It
was a sterilized increment, carefully cleaned and dusted
and fumigated until it arrived at its ultimate stage of
untainted, spotless checks in the white fingers of his pri-
vate secretary. Jacob built a three-million-dollar palace
on a corner lot fronting on Nabob Avenue, city of New
Bagdad, and began to feel the mantle of the late H. A.
RIashid descending upon him. Eventually Jacob slipped
the mantle under his collar, tied it in a neat four-in-hand,
and became a licensed harrier of our Mesopoiamian
proletariat.
When a man's income becomes so large that the butcher
actually sends him the kind of steak he orders, he begins
to think about his soul's salvation. Now, the various
stages or classes of rich men must not be forgotten.
The capitalist can tell you to a dollar the amount of his
wealth. The trust magnate "estimates" it. The rich
malefactor hands you a cigar and denies that he has
bought the P. D. & Q. The caliph merely smiles and
talks about Hammerstein and the musical lasses. There
is a record of tremendous altercation at breakfast in a
"Where-to-Dine-Well" tavern between a magnate and
his wife, the rift within the loot being that the wife calcu-
lated their fortune at a figure $3,000,000 higher than did
her future divorce. Oh, well, I, myself, hear l a similar
quarrel between a man and his wife because he found fifty
cents less in his pockets than lie thought he had. AfterI
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Henry, O., 1862-1910. Strictly Business, book, 1910; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139374/m1/224/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.