Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-30
BETWEEN Ourselves.

1t is the cheapest form of success, be-
cause it usually goes hand in hand with
the most enormous selfishness, and in
wolves the most congenial and effortless
display. This ocular success would be
percious if it were not ephemeral There
is that, too, in human nature which loves
the superficial imposition, and sets it up
for worship as though it were genuine,
and likely to impress the ages ever
more.
The minds eye sees three women
whose husbands are the veriest humbugs
each in their way, and each has been
well-known in the state as such, yet,
pom my word. these infatuated
creatures are blind to
the real status of their lacking lords, and
accept them for the genuine being every
time
1t is merciful interposition of provi-
dence, and the greater the glamour the
greater the mercy; while the conven-
tionalities require that they should live
together.
The man who is convincing at home
ought to pass the worlds ordeal tolerably
well, because, as rule, a man is
soon found out in his domestic circle, for
not often is this surprising glamour lent
to them; and the bare character, with all
its possibilities of strength and weakness
is awfully legible to the home Vision
Posing is the powerful aid of medioc-
rity, and will do more than the other SUI
perfcial advantages combined, except,
perhaps, a perfect and all-recognizable
beauty. There are some marked exam
pies of the power of posing in St.
Paul. Two of our best known
men have never seemed to do anything
else to the discerning eye. There is a
vague impression in the civic mind of
something achieved in the remote past of
the settlement, but it is only misty ira.
dition. They are always quoted. They
are continually before the public for
something or other, on the strength OF
this misty traditional service, and they
usually get it, on the strength of nobody
knowing anything about it. Streets are
called after them and there is a fatuous
presentment of their names on every
occasion, while it is all the result OF
studied posing.
Any afternoon the most aggressively
visible of the posers may be seen on
Third street, sort of caryatide sup
porting this historic past on his roundish
shoulders, while his family dignity is the
most extraordinary growth St. Paul has
ever seen. That is more than he
can support, and it runs on impecun-
iosity.
But for all that who'd have the temerity
to say he wasn't asuccess? Why, no one,
of course, save some minded person
insensible to the claims of misty ''past,"
and family born with this misty past,
as its only inheritance to work upon an
impossible public, which is numerical
reprehensible squatter on this patri-
monial territory, and must be taxed for
the privilege of living here at all-the
money making interloper paying a social
and pecuniary tribute
Here posing persistent and well-direct-
ed, has been as profitable as the superla-
tive beauty of the exquisite English
woman, Mrs. Langtry, whose fame is
pictorially broadcast, and whose social
position has been wonderously uplifted by
the sheer force of good looks well adver-
tised, and set in plenitude of elegant
toilettes, each one study and q
style for both sides of the world.
Much of Conkling's prestige was due to
skillful posing, but in an inspired and
evil mood that low minded inimical man
of the people must needs call it turkey
gobbler strutting'' and presto, the artistic
attitude is associated with the barnyard
and that ground swell is too much for us.
A malign censor has gone to work and
found the speeches of the lordly Roscoe
to be timid, turgid, Pathological, and
fudge generally. Where then, are the
rays that ere while made his record-the
acceptable political beam?
We said that such success would be
pernicious, if it were not ephemeral.
Now wouldn't it be, and wouldn't any
Valhalla. however immense, become un-
comfortably and promiscuously crowded
if we let in all the claimants of sue
cess in its manifold phases?
Of course, and that's why we have the
perennials and the ANIMALS of success in
this great garden of humans.
The perennials that we.have been quot
ing didn't have much care, nor many
favorable conditions of growth, but how
magnifcently they grew in spite of all
adverse surroundings, and what grand
dimensions they take on in this immortal
atmosphere of the Valhalla!
"Val-humbug," says Mrs. Harris
"Why can't you let things be as they are
What's the use of quarrelling with pic.
turesque and pretty Mary Anderson, fol
instance, because she isn't as studious,
and sturdy, and plain as Charlotte Cush.
man. Let me tell you Mary has got the
best of it, even if she is a gorgeous an.
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