Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-03-26

das "a muck Iuare accurate aud restricted
0aF'h' meaning OF tho term 'n0O-
What is il to be snobY
Is the man who murders his father for
that reason o snobi Surely not A wretch
but not necessarily snob.
Is the man who beats his wife snobf
Surely not on that account He is an un-
manly rufilan, but II docs not follow that
ho is a snobr
Is tho man who picks pocket snobi
Surely Il Is misuse OF language TO call him
80 on that ground. he Is scoundrel, but
mot necessarily snobi
Is tho man who habitually uses grossly
foul language q snobS Not necessarily for
that reason. He ls a blackRuard, but s.
may be that he is nota enob.
Is the man who is WHOLLY Ignorant Of and
excluded from "good soclely'fa snob2 The
plowman at the plow's tail the blacksmith
al his anvil, the shopman his counter
are these men oil snopsi Unquestonably
there is no more reason for supposlng that
thew must needs be such than for supposing
his Grace The Duke TO be such.
Was the man who said 10 certain con-
crete Duke, when be was left tete a tete with
MIN ia a railway carriage after third pas
sanger had LETT the rail, who was, as he
,vas informed; another nObleman of The
same rank, "Lordl 10 think of his Grace
making all The time 90 haiiably 70 little
snobs ike you and mel Was thai man
enobY By no means, as far as ny story goes
aces il prove him to have been enc. He
misnsed tho term, and was not upon that
occasion a snob because he supposed, and,
supposng, admitted, himself to be one.
IL the man who invites his friend TO din
uer and gives him q scrap oil mutton aud
glass Of two-penny alo anobY" Not at all
e IEemay-se w hoaesi, good fellow, or
sc may be a stlngy curmudreoni but there
Is ia either case nothing snobbish IN his
proceeding. e,,
dinner and gives him bottle OF besstliness
nj tweniy-four shillings The dozen, calling It
the claret which Lord Nozoo always drinks
lis he a snobf Ay, verify ia he-a prince
Tie man who slags in the town all the
wear because he can't afford 10 leave IT. the
man who stays because be isa miser and
won't afford losleave IT. the man who does
20 holiday making TO amuse himself when
se Ought not 10 afford it--are they snobsf
Nofa mao OF them is the real, genuine Rrti-
~ Bni the man who, being Detained In
tou-,. nulls down bis blinds and lives in the
bark parlor, that be may be supposed to be
eway- he Is a true and undeniaIe snobf
The nan who does thIs or that, however
Objectionable HE practice may be, and tells
you that be Goes ~ oeseuse .e HAee 49, -.
because be chooses 10 do so, Is no snob. bui
the man who does this or that, and probes
sss 70 ike this or that, because "lt Is the
Tigbt tbingf'-because, ST is all the gof
f6orrid phTaseD that man is snob TO the
marrow Of bis pones
Horace, who, despite his prolessiona
adulaton Of Augustus and Mee@nafi was
nan on au essentially anti snohblsh nature
Anesks of irnftat0reS as ssrUum pecus-th'
sprvile herd Of imitators. Now tnis seryil'
ns,nre L sauintessentially snosbsh. Still !
ssreedlul 10 guard .sgainst misundersland
nc The man who initiates because !
s,t,kes him that what he seen another d
may be useful or pleasant to him, may .
Hola of originality, but be IS not therefore
-ssob. The imiiaior whose imitation stamp
aas a snah u The man who thinks TIA
= l1e viii obtain the admiration OF thirl
person by Initiating somebody whom h
4 conceiYes 10 be admired He is the ma