Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-03-06
American " Society,""

ty in America none would be
h enough to deny. The girl
grows up "gOes out" as a
er of course; the man who
les the aye of sixteen is very
y to go to dancing classes, and
Years later to balls. But there
social code, except such as is
brted from Europe, and when
bay imported from Europe,
lOn't mean any one country,
bome customs from England,
from France, some from
nany, some new, some old,
bad, some good, some des-
to survive, some to perish.
in fact with social ideas in
country as it is with every
b else, intellectual, moral, and
bical-eNcept such manufac-
D products as we think it
ssary to exclude by II tariff
Ething and everybody is
we'd to come and maintain
eelf, or herself. or itself, if
gh can he found TO live on.
ideas, principles, thoughts,
ngs. processes, and traditions
have ever made their appear
in the world find i'm the
Ted States Il common field in
eh the struggle for existence
hts il the survival OF the
Isl. Nothing is settled, moth
Is fixed. There are no decisions
Ell are final. There are no laws
4Ode of the levitical kind. \
Rral sense of social obligation
purse exists. 1t would be i'm
ihle for II gentleman who
ped to cut n figure in the So
of New York or Boston, to
fe a habit of "hrawiug Il bead -
is hostess whenever anything
wrong in the cotillon, or of
ing the pockets of his fellow
>ts; it would be out of the
etion for waiter to sit down
he table with the company. or
the ladies at Il formal dinner
~ to remain with the gentle
2 after the hostess had gone
the parlor. Within these
ler broad limits, however, there
uch an amount Of freedom as
gender it an impoSsibility to
whe'e the true lines are. 1t
pSurd in such a society as ours
pix of what is allowed, what is
m'tted, what is dc rigue,u', an d
~ Is not. The idea of the ne
pity OF social ordinances, and
machinery for their applica-
Is derived from a familiarity
N nXed states of society, in
Prh f1r generations the means
social amusement have been
ceHtrated in the same or nearly
same hands. But we have
pted change as the basis of X
fhce, liz this as in any other
nch Of life. From another
~ OF view the matter is still
fer, When a girl "cOmes OUT
N us. or "A man begins to go
, tne amusement to which they
chiefiy confined is dancing,
II * the dancing together of
and boys between the ares of
iteen and twenty-five which
i' constitutes what FOREIGNERS
u of, when they get their infor-
li"h about "American Society"
Ter That they in almost all cases
Fry and settle down to work, in
case Of the girls VIII, remain
harrled retire from the field,
F'hc'ie themselves to a single
4 of take, in the case of Il few
me oolder ones, to some Occu-
ION. But meantime IA new CEN
I',oh mas entered the field. New
and freshmen's sisters
o"nrlng the German together
oiuer set has disappeared.
tre ar few. Il very Few of both
yes VINO wearily keep it up for "A
!. years longer with much trib-
''.oll ana difficulty. But they
rev and are beginning to have
o.iy thoughts about the vani-
~ |, eafthiy affairs. Tney. too,
!, soon marry or retire. With
, haieldoscopic movement 60
on social existence cannot
luce a Society" "-Gotary.
I.I.I IE.R on. NJ, L. A. ..