The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-07-02
l IFFERENTsXIMDal 0HSeNoBs,


"a: DIFFERENT KINDsl0 5eN0Bs,
Th.cksray, d d authority 81 the u,bject;,
defines snob to be that man Or woman
Who Railways. Ipret ling to sbeS some
thing bsttef lpeoiall richer OF more
fashiona than. they are. Ia. this city.
We have snobs Of diversso orders tic com.
monest and most conspicuous being the /
social, the financial, the Journalistic, the
literary. the artistic, the Influential, the
friendly and the boastful. Not infre.
quently these orders run: into one IN.
other, bnt generally they have : certain
kind Of distinctness, and excite their own
sort Of contempt. q man may be snob
without positive pref ense-that IS, with.
out falsity of assumption; becoming such,
by constant parading of the facts OF cir
ycumstances no piques himself: upon.
Usually, however, he is an arrant hum.
bug s projecting his verities from his
imagination, and developing ! his
merits from =: his inner .! con.
seriousness. The III social 3; Z snobs
prevails unlimitedly, and is of epicene
gender, but often feminine. He Tor she)
is perpetually talking Of society, Of what
constitutes the best society, Of true re-.
finement, of shocking vulgarity, of per.
feet breeding leaving you. to suppose,
and generally intimating, that allfthe so.
cial virtues. graces and distinctions are
monopolized by him. In his assumptions
he is esst>tially anti.democratic, anti
republican; reckoning honest worth un.
genteel, and inherited property illus
trious. ,%'',st E7's.,,, f<.#' =.
Family blood, is one of his favorite
themes. He is fond of saying that it re.
quires six generations to produce a gen.
tleman or lady; that those deprived Of
that number Of generations may be esti.
mable, excellent people, but then they
cant be-of course-exactly what they
should be. He likes occasionally to de-
clare himself thorough democrat, but
only for the sake of being contradicted.
He smiles serenely when he is called a
great aristocrat; denying the charge SO
amiably and feebly that you see that he
does not want to be believed.
What are his anteccdents! It is not
we'll to inquire too closely. He is really
whatever it suits him to be, and his ante.
cedents are Of his own. making. If he
have money, little or much, and lives
upon his income, he regards labor as un.
worldly and debasing. He is aware that
tho great mass must work: but there arc
q few Of the privileged and elect who
would not stain their hands with toll.
And he, necessarily, is of the few. If he
be poor aud obliged to earn his own livli.
hood, he resents his circumstances in.
dignantly; IS always deploring his ill lot,
and informing his acquaintance that his
father, or grandfather, or great grand
father was very rich; that reverses came,
and that the sensitive and naughty family
were forced into the supreme wretched-
ness of poverty. He tells how hard it is
for him to reconcile himself TO his sur
roundings; how he chafes .inwardly; how
his pride revolts at the hundred things
he is compelled to do. He is
He never allows you to find out any,
thing concerning him. He is ever in ad-
vance of you in respect to whatever he
wants to have known. Facts are so awk-
ward and stubborn, when picked up at
random, that he arranges, polishes, and
invents them for his own purpose. No
stories can be prettier than those he re.
lates of himself, and they have the ad.
vantage of being the first told. Suisse
Quent revelations may discredit them
but these should not for, however true,
they ought not to be counted against his
| work.
The less the social snob amounts to,
the more he leans upon his ancestors.
They are very convenient folk. Being
dead and forgotten, he can present them
in any shape and hue he chooses. They
were marvelously versatile, according to
his account. They combined extremes,