The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-02-26
RESPECTABILITY.

! 'AAOAihS LIS CiShI Oh 10
front platform OF a Greenwood car
few nights ago, Truth entered int,
conversation WITH a young mar go
up regardless ef expense, and array eC
IN clothing of Enthusiastically English
cut Truth soon discovered that hi
companion Was American by birth
that mis- "pah" and NAH were
English; that be was an ardent
admirer of everything English
though be did not quite indorse toe
British "cahste" distinction; he wa,
however. entirely CONVINCED that be.
being a gentleman. was infinitely
superior to e hoj-carEier. and en-
phaticaIiy proclaimed that De would
be ashamed to acknowledge scouaint.
snceship with such. Truth having
ascertained thatthe would-be B iton's
sole mission in life vas to spend the
money which his father had savec
from years of labor SIS a tsnuer %
the SWAMP" and that MS sole
accomplishments were q stock o!
small talk, perfect familiarity
with all the gingerbread filings Of
society. and pair OF feet perfectly
at ease on a bees eaxed floor, sug-
gested that the hod-oa..ie wss 8
far more useful member O! the
community than his snobshiD. How
the young man regarded the propo
sition will never be known, as jost
then ne reached his destination.
Truth, however, was reminded ho
the indent OF the countless young
land Old, too) Ue1 he had heard
compare English and American
customs TO the disadvantage OF the
latter.
He also recollec.ed the sayi le
that American women sre crazy
for titles. and called to mind the
numerous instances whore adyen.
turers had captured silly hsiresses BY
simply assuming some such title as
Duke OF , bingdon or Earl Of Sattar-
lee. These young ladies seem 10
forget that, were the social sysGsm
of America the same as that oil
England, they would never bav
the opportunity Of moving in toe
same sphere with such q higb.soned
breed OF dogs rs the British srIsto.
Gratis.
There is another class OF Euel SD
sd mirers which continually signs
for little Eoglish justice whenever
snything goes a little crookedly in
our courts. The last English paper
Truth read he saw that starving
man had been sentenced to six
months imprisonment for stealing
one "peDnorth" of coal from a
greengrocer's shop. AMI On the same
day sentence had been suspended on
q forger of $500 check because @:
the responsibility OF his family aud
the anguish of mind OF the iorgsr
ever since the commission of toe
crime. In the same paper was an
account of butcher being fined Is.
and costs under the following cir
cumstances: A clergyman entered
toe butchers market and told the
butcher TO stop whistliDg. Toe
butcher, although he admire4 the
holy mans monumental cheek,
refused to desist. Inc clergyman
then had him arrested.
Itanyone of these incidents bad
in this country DJg5erry
would likely have had the press qsyI
its respects to him.
Another class of our fellow. citizens
are great admirers of Eoglieh fair
play-ss if fair play were a cisatlan-
tic unknown quantity. II anFoDe
will take the trouble to recolleot,
however, he will see thai ali the way
from prize fight i5ayers and Hee-
pan) up 70 a university bos: rsce
(Oxford and Harvsrd) Englishnen
Can be as crooked" as any other
men; while all know that IDet
Britisher takes his defeats less gra-
ciously and makes more and Iamer
excuses to account for them whether
it be at boating, shooting or horse
rscing) than any other creature IN.
Ter the sun.
Truth would respectfully request
the Anglo maniac 10 take cogniZance
Of the following facts, which be ven
lures to say will induce little more
of ths Land of the
Free:
When a boy, Truth attended R
.omeWhat high-toued boarding school
and he remembers that a BOY whose
sister was dressmaker was consid
cred a decidedly low fellow, while
T nth, who had informed his school.
mates that hig aunts we're "dress
and Mantle Makers" was considered
very desirable company. It is an
absolute fact that thousands OF En-
ylishwomen have inserted on their
signs that word mantle" in order
to keep the dress" from getting on
TO the maker" and forming the
common, vulgar word 'dressmaker."
The same mysterious reasoning
causes Carpenter and joiner" to be-
80 per cent. more respectable than
Carpenter" only.
When the wine bibbing and glut.
tony of the nobility and gentry had
introduced that class of humanity
20 that interesting ailmeut, govt, the
sufferers found some consolation in
the fact that it was an aristocrstio
complaint. By and bye, however,
,ha ,oonevad n1iddla clesz enn,1Isted