Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-16
TALK.

tainment "a regular shorter" This being
ahead of all outside comment may be re-
garded as authorized and authoritative.
When William 81. speaks, tits usually
with Napoleonic brevity. 1t may not be
with the aphoristic finish and the chiseled
perfection of intellectual conciseness char
acteristic OF the Little Corporaps sayings,
but the resemb iance lies in the unmistaka-
bis stGccato quality.
There is 10 glamour about the bent of
Williams mind, nor will Commentators be
divided as to the drift OF his meaning.
he leaves euphemism to IN
profitable gentility without
stocks and bonds to brace it to his ornnip-
otent candor-im impoverished, indeed, since
it can scarcely call its mind its own, ana
without The least hope, too, OF eyer pos
sessing it. in the Vanderbiltian sense.
He oTerpowers this lacking majority with
surprise and even admiration that he can
upbend to the vernacuIar Of the day, and
that, albeit a millionaire several times
over, his language is yet SO very poor. He
seems to think and jerk out his curt say
ings like low-down people, and his vocab-
ulary as consequence isn't the least stuck
up. Now this may be a relief in disguise,
because if he were TO key his talk to the
note OF his millions few NOR
tails could stand it, like Holmes
fanny man who didn't dare let himself
QUIT to the full capacity Of his fun lest peo-
pie should die of laughing.
liz foJJo or;a
of William Il. have cause to be grateful,
because when he speaks We ell know what
he means. This is his forte, and like in
heriting his money, is largely his inheri-
lance too.
When he tells us his ball was "a regular
snortsr,' We are all much more enlight-
sned and impressed than if he gave out
something like that MENU which made the
Willard banquet at the Hotel Lafayette re-
markabls, and which has borne heavily on
the minds and purses of some guests ever
since. Their stomachs, however, were scot
free since the digestive facilities were
wholly untaxed.
Suppose, then, William Fl. had given
US description of his feast based
upon the same scheme of elegant
emptiness, and refined deception would
| we have been half as sure of the whole
business as We ARE now when We know
that it was "a regular snorter?'
There is hope of the country yet when
the foremost man of all our moneyed
| world can condescend to describe his $780,
600 ball in such lowly terms.
But the hopeless and doubling sort Of
persons might remark that if the enter
tainment itself were projected and CON
Quoted il purely American spirit end
manner the prospect for native supremacy
might be trife more encouraging.
And yet it may come, aItho' when, TO
quote Gen. Sherman on the tariff in his
queer letter 10 John Swinton, ':DioS Sobe.''
Now there is q funny instance OF this
prize our William II. moro than ever.
Fancy his levying On ID 6 Spanish to say
"God knows"--or ''the public be id"
when he's sure that not one half MS coun-
trymen can say don Ksyhoty" and as for
the rest 10 one but millionairies can ever
I ~4OiS W viz OtAS4 AL e1A1y lOASO
Come what may, the balls, routs and re-
ceptions Of our foremost Moneyed Man
ought to be managed on the grandest
foreign scale because of his exceptional
wealth, and humble origin, that therein
our republican pride may be gratifed by
having him cope with foreign titled aristo,
Gratis, wealthy and noble since the flood.
ha oil % Tr4s xfS H.,
should be IN advance that he should de.
scribe the gala occasion as 'a
regular shorter" if only to snub
the sterotyped Jenkinses who are
tethered to their recherches and distingues,
and magnifgues, and to make their de-
scriptions ever after suggest some insipid
lemonade sort of affair, while "snorter''
will be the regulation word con1uring Wis
ions of marble halls, seasons of flowers,
bands, banquet, Worth dresses, and the
conglomerate pomp of the world. It will
revoluntionize the whole wonted fol-de-rol
descriptive of grand festal scenes.
When the first shock to our feelings is
spent by repetition of its somewhat rude
sound, we shall thank thee, Vanderbilt, for
teaching Us that word.
The unhappy chamberlain Of Marie Az
toinette exclaimed on seeing the unpow.
dered head of Mlrabeau presented for a
royal audience, MADAME tout est perdu -
But you remember those were
troubIous times, and the limo
walton was disturbing because twas sig
nifoant of lapse from court traditions,
and of general revolutionary encroach-
ment. Here. however, is our Moneyed
Nan giving an example Of that beautiful
! equality which makes the average Ameri-
can world kin, and once in while touches
a world beyond its ken. For wasp't it by
this lovely attribute of our race that Tom
Ochiltcee captured the Prince of Wales
when he said: wales, my dear boy, let's
take drink" And Wales did, to show
his appreciation of the republican sim
plicity of the Texan Aunchausen. The
GLOBE is disposed to chide William q. be.
cause he spent 100000 on ''a regular jam
boree" and leaves the Bartholdi statue to
set itself up as best it can.
Now this ia unkind, after all he did sci
Up at the ball, bat republics are migrate
full one way or another.