Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-28
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

Social favor Is sometimes accorded because
certain people know you. 10 is taken for
granted that you must be above the average in
some occult way Or You would never be digni-
fed with such desirable notice. 1t is amusing
to note how slim the credentials are often
times when it comes TO test of individual
desert.
But nearly everyone is willing to make
little capital out of this popular weakness in
one way or another.
An lmpecunious person once applied to an
eminent banker for q loan, who refused him
but added: "I'n put you in the way of get
ting the money, by walking arm in arm with
you the length of the street." He was right
If such a mere grazing of power brought about
such successful result, what must daily in
timacy and association with the social great be
in the way of inference2
When Mrs. Forceps ia constantly seen with
Mrs. Calculus, she knows it helps
her social status immensely,
and her acquaintance are not
slow in recognizing it. Vet of herself the
dame has very little to bolster her pretensions.
There is No superfluity of money nor culture.
But there is q nameless prestige from being al
ways seen in stylish clothes and Identified with
a certain set, through an acknowledged leader
like Mrs. Calculus.
There is a shrewed discrimination in the as
sortment of acquaintance and a nicely Egraded
series of social attentions. A few intimates
have the best of intimacy. and the best Of
formality, too. They are invited to meet de-
sirable people on equal TERMS and at the same
time "have the run of the house,
Others again may have the run of the house,
but when tits question of meeting favored
and favo1ing people, they are subtly suppress
ed, and the occasion is rather eloaked of refer
ence before them.
Their exclusion may come from the familiar
ty which breeds contempt, or it may be caused
by the eheapenipg friendliness, which thinks
it's only 60 and-so, and consequently no need
of standing on ceremony with them.
1t may arise too, and alas,
it most frequently does from a
thoroughly selfish impulse to hinder the social
advancement of some persons-who if they
and competitive popularity.
Yet, taking the intimacy at lis face values
this farce is often repeated to class which may
be des cribed as liege women. 1--WE had de-
lightful time the other eve ming when UGH and
such persons we're here. Why didn't you happen
in Pr They must be very sure of their audience
when they say such things or they might be re-
minded of the invitations that were issued for
this little affair, to which the intimate was bid
den Observation-Disclosures.
There are bedroom acquaintance, and parlor
acquaintance. It is no unusual thing for
Mrs. a. to leave Mrs. B. in her bedroom IN
asked while she entertains carriage friends"
through long call in the parlor. Mrs. B.
knows she is sHppressed-knows that her dear
friend isn't at all anxious that she should
know the Cs because it would leave her no
vantage margin to brag on-by
conjurins up at times visions
of inaccessible social glory which leave
the nearer in state Of tantal'xing incomplete
ness, and of depressing remote ness. "Gad,
how gracefully they loll," said man in the
hearing of Tom Moore once as carriages full of
fashionable ladies rolled past them in Picca-
dilly. That is the only observation left to
some people.
Mrs. Il. pockets it ell, for Mrs. A. is useful
to her even sif she doesn't bring her face
to face with the choice ones OF her acquaint-
ance.
Why, there are many mansions in heaven,
and all sorts of distinctions even among the
elect there. And the Lord love you, how prev
alent this Dragging is, from the blatant to the
fine voiced, and almost imperceptble tracery
of it through every channel of conversation.
until you wonder at the ingenuity which never
misses chance to brag openly and covertly-
directly an indirectly. Did any one ever listen
to Mrs. Mopffathers without feeling the aroma
Of as ISOLATION with the Wheal family steal
over him?
No matter how abstruse the subject, there
will arise an apparently opposite in
PRODUCTION of some mem Der of this numeI GUS
and imposing family which will
be 80 naturally made that the fneese amounts
to genius-in that line. Mrs. Wheat is Ruthor-
ity on all social questions, vexed or annexed.
What she does is right, what she says is law.
What impresses the casual beholder is her in
termittent memory of persons. To some she
seems to need an introduction once every
twenty four hours. and Others she knows at
Such long distances that she must have globe
sight for them. Commonplace bucks and
pamphlets bearing her influential name, are
ostentatiously displayed on Mrs. Monflathers'
center table. What Mrs. Wheal reads is of
momentous importance-albeit the oDly point
made in her favor 10 the dispassienate critics
is thas it is never too late to learn.
while ago the center table bore pleasant
little Lroshsse. with the fateful. recurring sig
nature. 1t was casually dropped that Mrs.
Whe al found it 30 ''fresh'' and fine. It must
be good, then, said the interlocutor, for it has
stood the test for about thirty years, having
been originally given to the world in House
hold Words.
Mrs. Monthathers makes it rule
to. go everywhere size can with Mrs. Whesl,
because it is equal to patent of nobility to
be identified with her. Her loyalty is touch
ing, but she would scarcely like to have its
motive closely scrutinized. In riches, as we'll
as poverty, for each lustrium brings its ups
and downs to the Wheals they ever appear to
lose their social grip, and the fealty of Mrs.
onfathers ia uniform. As time goes on
poor. lordly, old Wheal gets drunken each year,
and we'll nigh every night its the mighty fu-
neral of my lords intellects'' as Lady Delacour
tells Belinda in Miss Edgewort h's story, when