Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-19
BETWEEN OURSELVES.


presented naturally are anything but agree
able. Yelled with the spacious forms of
speech designed for these double dealing
emergencies, we fall tojustfying, in particular
Instances, the code which impress such self
restraint. IN the suppression of the blunt
and offensive charscteristics-such by-play is
admirable. The result is happy, even if the
motive be cloudy. So for, SO good, until the
didos of the "society manner" come in, and
the yeneering is SO warped and poor that dis
trnst Of the whole structure superyenos.
When Safflow meets you his greeting is
polite-which you deserve and accept; but his
manner is exaggerated and egotistical, in try
ing to make you believe that only pre-
eious few are worthy of his admira-
hon-and his admiration-is just the one
thing of all the world needed 20 give you or
any other favored individual of the precious
few-tone. Now tone, and ton in st. Paul is
the capricious rating of o curious and fortui-
tous minority, whose genius and spokesman
is Saftlow, and perhaps two or three others
like him. Saftlow rolls the word society in
his utterance until it receives the most sig
nifcant pronunciation in the world. He is its
oracle. To be noticed by him is distinction
enough 70 dilute any amount of hard knocks
in the social way-that is if you esteem SAT
flow as he esteems himself, in his position of
elegant arbiter May be you don't, and then
you will smile when that careless thorough
bred sakeret says: f'Saffiow is good fellow
he WANTS to be q gentleman"
Well, it ought to count for something meri-
sOrioCs to have even the desire
So, then we think the line must
be drawn on our stage at the
speech which is ducti1e end afable-a very
balm to people, albeit much of it is of the
patent" quack kind. The manner made up
of deception, to suit the action to the word, Is
q Disgusting of all netlralness and sponta-
nifty.
It is like the usual makeup" When rouge
is put on it should be so delicately shaded and
graded that it gives artifice the benefit of
doubt. When tits, as legible as a sign, the
charm is impracticable, the coarse touch is too
evident. A little finesse may be admissible,
but the bold pantomime is a clumsy substitute
for the plausible address, which has tho SAVIOR
of sincerity to such an extent that you are
puzzled to separate the reality from the coun-
| terfeit.
"Au we want" said withered, world batter
ed Mrs. Skewton, 'is little more hart" and
| the poor old fraud tried the freshness, and
| heart business, and postured az Cleopatra, and
\ worked the trap until Mr.. Dombey walked
| in. Of course, twas handsomely
baite6. The old impostor set it. Such ANTIQUE
danes usually do, but candid scribe must
record the fact that the young and tender flesh
| now a-days isn't at all slow in willingness to
be bait.
| There is an old story about parents travelling
in sleigh with three or four children, and on
being pursued by wolves threw oct one child
and then another to the ravenous beasts. In
the ''World" child after child is thrown TO
hogs with money, to goats with money, to
every species of reprobate with money, who
can live in style, and support the scenic dis
pl&Jwhich is the ultimatum in society.
| Acting of the unprofessional sort is lost on
some people, while others again find i. indis-
pensable as relish in the prosaic routine OF
| existence.
| People who are rated as affected are always
amusing, even when they do not furnish q bit
of analytical study. There is vain aad gar
rulous general who visits some sections of the
country in the fertile season, and who has
one stereotyped thing to say to the honest
ll1ers OF the soil everywhere when any public
occasion makes a speech necessary. His re-
marks are the same yesterday, to-day snd for
/ ever, when he tells them that their grain
| fields have a wealth of golden cereals, beside
| which the mines of California are snidc, and
| played ont at that. He has daughter who
| was invited to dine with the family Of an Off
| Ger here quite conspicuous in society. When
| the Young lady, who is sensible and unaffected,
| reached the gate of the hospitable mansion,
| she found supple, suggestive body swinging
on the gate, her hat dangling from her sweet,
artless arm, and second look revealed her
| hostess, who gushed her into the house
The guileless, breezy tableau wasn't well Sc
| lected by the mature "ingenue" 1t tried the
gravity of the slender feet' when she caressed
her husband in public; especially in the Church
of the Holy Sweetbreads, as she dropped her
dear, dear head on his shoulder 10 the dstrac-
ton Of direct uorshipers
These impulses with appropriate acting are
lovely, but they are sometimes productive OF
mischief
There is the corsarsh Reno, who
was Vlctimized by taking biz of by-play liter
ally. When lovely woman stooped-setween
his knees to tie his crayat, whyshe kissed her
as the most appropriate return for the effort
And she? Wen,she was just perfectly awfully
astonished. No kiss ever made so much mis-
chief since Francesca and Paolo.
There is a very large number Of persons
earning livelihood by posturing as models to
artists, who have the satisfaction of knowing
that they may be figures in fame's temple.
Society models, second rate limitations Of life
they fain would live in some shape-have
meagre return for their trouble Eli that up
holds them is the belief that their maneuyre-
ing isn't suspected.
If Mrs. Eclegm fancied that any one was
pulling over the pecuniary mystery of her
occasional entertainments, her feelings would
undergo a change. Her own brooding over
tie financial question is misery enough-but
10 have any one else distances vitriol"
Our foibles are too dearly paid for
sometimes. Even laudabls ambition
has too often wofuI restraints.
The game isn't worth the candle half the
time, but we burn the most expensive gas
watching its tuppenny course, for we are
bound 70 see it out
The company is good, the stakes are suffici-