Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-23
TALK.

| oAhouAo W Ill oOCldl Uo hAOW Wh6b
it cost, but as an indication of social life
at its highest and best what is it and how
would you rate it!
In Daudet's absorbing book "Ls Nabob"
Jansoulet, the hero, spending his enor-
nous fortune in Paris, having been
originally dock porter at Marseilles, is
ready and complete illustration of the
methods employed by such persons to Sc
cure recognition from 'the world" by g.
gorgeous and boundless expenditure of
money in regular snorters." 1t seems
to be the only way for new people; and,
like the Duo de Mora may saunter through
the dazzling new rooms Of Ma
bob Jansoulet cycling the motley
crowd with high-bred amused insolencs,
wondering, if ever human enough to feel
| wonder-where they all came from, AID
what braYe show they make - COZ
sidering; and, knowing too full well that
they will keep them at arms length when
the occasion means anything more than
business or some interest requiring pro-
pitiation in the "snorter" line.
Hospitality in the English sense, the
outcome of the most solid social structure
in the world is nearly wholly unkno IN in
| America.
Here Q millionaire gives some dinner
parties, perhaps yearly "snorter" has a
| dozen servants, and with town house, a
yacht, villa at Newport and possibly e
country seat, manages to expend $4,000 q
year. II has bean asserted by collector
Of odd statistics that there are rot five
| persons, if as Many, in tho United States,
who spend 100000 year on their sstab-
lishments.
The "broad aored Englishman" is never
with their servants for weeks at time in
his country house, and In his servants hall
many be counted fifty or sixty feeding On
all the beef and beer they can consume.
He is expected to entertain schools and
parishes, and at Christmas he gives hun
dreds of pounds in eatables and blankets,
| besides subscribing to every public charity
in msyhap two or three counties. The whole
scheme of existence is based on traditions
which seem to know no change. The
social form is fixed, guarded and exclusive.
The aspirant for admission into the best
English circle must be tolerably well fixed
in advantages which sthe world"
recognizes at once. It may not
be blue blood, but it must be blue breed
ing Of an Enthusiastically thorough sort. It
may not be excess OF money, but it must
be 'respectability" in the conservative
English meaning, and conventionalities
of rock-ribbed fixity must be honored in
the observance most perceptibly. No peo-
pie in the world are so loyal to ''respeota
biiity" IS the English, and they look with
suspicion on the fortunate shirmishers
who have made enormous sums of money,
and are anxious to conquer the social
stfonghGld-by lavish expenditure.
They carry their suspicion to
the method OF their gains, thinking it an
indication of qualities unfavorable to high
social hopors.
With their conservatism money must be
seasoned by long Inheritance, by solid,
deep-rooted evidence of ancestral
stability ere society receives
it with perfect acquiescance.
Assuredly we have all read Thackeray
Dickens, and host of lesser writer's who
have shown as the very society whereof
our millionaires of s'snorter" ambition
would be the glorifed leaders. Perhaps
Dickens, in Little Dorritt, held the mirror
mr., fo fhic IF INT ba
of Mr.. Merdle, the great railway king and
stockholder, who was awed into insignif-
canoe by the august gaze OF his majestic
butler. His soirees were grand, and the
attendance was large, but unhappily the
host had queer, uncanny trick Of catch
ing hold Of his wrist, Gas it," says Dick
ems, she was taking himself into custody"
and he did at last by suicide when his fnau-
cial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT had collapsed. Nor
do we need to go to fiction Cor illustrations.
Every day in London some person is mas
quersding in the fms style with apparent
ly endless revenues like Baron Albert
Grant, whose magni6cenoe Of living and
entertainment at Kensington made him
quite noted, but when the inevitable crash
came it scarcely made a sensation in
grandeedom, for of course the unfortunate
Spectator never got there. When Louis
Napoleon ennobled the Pereires and the
Haussmans, and showered distinctions and
decorations on successful fellows about
the Bourse and elsewhere, did it help them
to recognition In the Faubourg Sc. Ger
main, in that Legitimist quarter where a
twenty franc piece is always Louis and
never Napoleon, and where Eugene,
when empress, was styled Nine. Bona
parte? We know it did not ard the
new nobility was excluded without mercy.
In our favored land there is wealth
that is an embarrassment to Its posses
sors like the Sharon, and Fair and Croker
millions. In their very vices they manage
like cads, rather than like the order, wt.ica
even in its csrnalities is actlated by the
motto Of noblssse oblige and whose COM
peers they would so rejoice to be consider
ed by purchasing the right of way.
Only tits not on sale, and that stops the
aspirants short.
There Is a story Of Croker, the fabH
lousy rich, sitting at the table d hots in
hotel at Nice in his shirt sleeves, the