THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Passing of the Idle Rich, by Frederick Townsend Martin