The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-03-23
SPOTS ON SOCIETY.

Sympathetic vitality is the soul of society. The
husky penuriousness of ndividualsm not suff-
cient. The social element is homogeneous, and its
essential character varies not through the transmits
sion of centuries. It is cosmop oltan and hence If
fords universal data from which strong conclusions
wrought A failure,to reco snze said facts gives
to life monumental isolation
The fit application of the social element varies
greatly in select companies but in mixed companies
the law of average settles proprieties Thus the
pounding of the rules of court by peltntic attorney
would bore the gregarious with pain The i'm
provised analysis of nostrums By quacE physi-
clan would make the gresarious stomach gag. And
other things sayorng of specialities might be
Grated and set aside. Mixed companies socially con-
cerned exclude the technicalites of trade ami pro-
fessional dicta. Indeed, it is unjustifable to
force distasteful topics down the throat as
it would be to pour benzine whisky down the throat
ola temperate associate. The system of examining
indigestion are sure to follow.
Strict formality in society is Ike acute rheuma-
tism. 1t gives to time the 'painful gloss AMI SEEM
ingy unnatural length of coli :" and tortu~es life
with the changeless rythn of echanical death Most
fornalites galvanized hypocrtcies Much eti-
quette is a veil which conceas crucifxion Society
may be considered as gregarious person having
peculiar needs, which may lose its health by the IA
tai corsets of excessive artiiictiity Give
heed lest pleasure be en- lngerel, when you approach
this artificial person whose rigid features stereo-
type with a com ortless smile. A mixed company
affords acurious exhibition of varieties from the
grotesqua dumb-show of wall-aoyers to The noisy
intrusiyencss of nlpertnent Dasters who labor for
melo dramatic effects An atte m2t is made to brdg,
these differences by the stilted diplomacy of socia
aristocracy. Then it is enjoyment escapes through
| back door.
Then there is irvariable watcry exuberance
which with gnlping up process pours through
ciety, ana which, in the absence of an exact name,
may be called sapgagsm. 1t always gives humid
| symptoms oil dropsical exclamation, and is like an
abortivc love smiling through a heap of poultcas
Then there's fierce expression Of brusqueness held II
passirity and making forced courtesies to stiff de
corum, thus affordny insulting caricatute upor
the demands of an enlightened conscience. decI
under-tonc of dissatisfaction is heard, resulting
from the juxtapostion of flashing circumstance ana
fretful yagaries.
world, which results in intellectual Intlformation;
and spiritual centaurS. Certain lacll-lustre institu
lions make contorted exhibitions OF the moral-thea
trical. Institutions there whose physical out
lncsilisplay original exaggeratons of the flying ira
peze and which discover hisiler fires by smoke is
suing from Liliputian fues. Institutions there are
which wear the appearance of an impoteut sensation
alism keeping up sad continu of life force
into CHASTITY smiles by the surf5it Of old memories
The sqnoak ofan oaten pipe is magnihei into thur
derby the immense ear-trumpats of popular rumol
The nibbng of a mouse in mural obscurity propheS
les the demolition ofthe universe. But, o.
later receptions losing bulk become diminished
their little substance.
But the social instinct perpetual and unconquer
BILE is at times clearly vindicatcl. Such on
last entertainment good old fashioned party of gel
uine socability, in which pleasure wassaforded to
and hardship to o.