Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-18
TALK.

representation OF people VINO compass
much that they consider worth having by
hattery, coarse, fine, tacit. outspoken and
inferential. There are multitudes who spend
their lives in studying the advantageous
reaction of some one of these varieties of
q common root.
They calculate effects with knowing dis
elimination, and usually their returns are
what they would have them. Sometimes
we see one individual, an adept in all the
varieties of flattery, getting off fulsome
speech and consonant acting with readiest
adaptability. The subtle tributes of
deferential following on every available
| occasion, especially in the street, and the
too. deepfor- utterance feeling over the
| common place concessions of every day
! life, are the tacit touches that bring down
the coveted recognition or encouragement
| the fawning fatterer loves to receive.
There are not many who can, resist this
insidious offering of another's alb asement
over their fine and noble and exalted
selves.
They have vague ideas Of loftiness, of
endowments passing those of the average
! man. but to have reminder of them
kotou-ing before them is delicious to van
ity, and the fatterer gets in his benefit
which was altogeuer what he calculated on
having.
| The rule works from high to low in the
| human current.
The higher the man in the social, pro-
fessional or political degree
the lower as rule will
his fatterer and follower be. AS the
kings of old had their fools and testers SO
the great men of modern days must have
| their fatterer, their intimate who bends
before them, stricken with the contempla-
ton of their superiority, and stirred with
the magnitude of the privilege of knowing
them at all. This exhibition feeds the
variety of one. and gains for the adroit
is funny and salutary to watch the per-
| Torrance.
There is an old farce wherein in days
long past Joseph Jefferson used to take
the part of the Governor of Surinam,"
and whenever he came upon the scene
grotesque attendant salaamed and -four
ished long-handled fly brush of peacock
feathers before him crying, "Marsh NAL
lowv' and the effect was ludicrous beyond
description.
We see people fourishing all sorts of
fiattering devices every day, and somehow
We ara not SO much moved to laughter as
contempt, or perhaps envy, that we are
not fashioned so supple of mind and body
that we can sway our conceit and action
and expression to this acquisitiye point.
Yet It's easy-easy as lying-and still
IN such lying, j. e., the false attitude
of apparent inferiority to a sort
of grand crowned head business, is as
ayerse to the majority of natures es was
primitive lying to George Washington.
When make such an ado about Mrs.
Haut Ton and quote her, it is not that 1
deem her sayings wise. witty or original,
but 1t is quite as much to have you infer
that it is my exalted privilege to be able
to do so, while am sure it is fattering to
Mrs. Haut Ton to be cited by me, who am
on little mole hill of my own. She
knows L regard her favorably and she flat
| tiers me- by recognizing it IL bland, mex
peRsive way. If the wheel should turn in
the merry-go-round of life and she came
down from that pile of money!
When Conkling moved his man Arthur
| ABOUT in the New York custom house and
/ II the Chicago convention, I wonder did
he ever dream that his factotum
and fatterer would outrank
him in the end. AS well imagine that
Dombey suspected 10 Bagstock of sup
planting him in the regard of Edith Gran
ger, Aud yet a statelier prize fell uncx-
peo.edly to the chubby faced, side whis-
kered adipose dandy, when the ''laudable
pus' of the Bliss bulletins was stopped,
and the agonizsd victim patiently gave up
his life and power. There is generally a
sympathetic attraction which brings
together the fatterer and the
battered. The susceptible fibre
IA detected by the expert who
5trsightway p5rceives that not only has he
made no mistake, but that his experiment
can be followed up to his advantage. You
can easily trace out the result Of this
maneuvering, for you see the set who are
finessing for their game, and the game that
Is quite willing to be fnessed for.
You like to watch q neat velI-man-
aged job in fattery that has
its premium in view. All the by play aud
the clever artiice are as dlverting as stage
work. When you see Avocatus Magnus re-
ceive smilingly the fulsome greetings of
the swindler in his wake, you wonder what
vein in him answers to that sort of tune.
He doesn't need such fatulent peans to
his well recognized superiority, but he &C
cepts them with as much avidity as if be
needed the noisome demons.rative re-as-
surance.
Perhaps he likes fattery as he likes
game,-"ripe."
There must be bit of cheese to fall in
to the mouth Of that waiting, beeuiling
fox IN the fulness of time.
And, by the way, what a part hattery
plays in SO many of these time-honored
fables! What pith and point its action
furnishes, and how important is the moral
adduced. Why the very manner of con-
veying it was of itself an adroit bit
OF hattery By transferring all the