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

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ening of purchases, work, ETC., by a
calm calculation of the weak fibre
which tires at certain stage of the bag
Cling process, and leaves the field to them.
Besides, these cheapening people
are usually wearers Of the uniform of
victory. If they were not they could not
wrest perceptible concession. What shop
keeper or working person is going to stand
out long against the paneply of sealskin,
diamonds, and silk, enforced, too, with the
arrogance which the consciousness of be-
ing solvent enough to compass such con-
convincing articles is pretty sure
to make active Utmost ma
lures, at least of the
sordid variety, bent on testing this weak,
non-resisting fibre aforementioned.
once witnessed signal suppression of the
arrogance of haste, rather than the AFRO
gance of cash, by the great man dress
| maker of New York in the first blash of
| the business on our shores, and must say
that his sublime impudence, efrontery,
| candor or what you will, made an ineffeoe-
able impression on my memory as prac-
| ticed on one of the high, potential leaders
| of the great social world
He made quite a suggestive picture as
he faced, with fine, almost Mephistophe-
Ian scorn, his patrician patron who was
one Of the first to recognize his genius
and give it the lift into that sumptuous
success, comforting upon him the power to
hi. back from has supremacy. It
| was az If he said: CATER all
you can only give me money and I have
enough Of that without taking your high
pressure nonsense with it, and it is time
to make a break from it,
And he did.
| When the gronde dame upbraided him
for not having her dresses finished as
promised, what he did say point blank
without any surmise of facial expression
was, Madame, do you know I would not
care If never again had another order
from the respectable world" wherein
Madame is such an exalted leader. The
denai-monde of this magnificent city
would enable me to live opulently the rest
Of my days, and, as it is they pay me sums
which would make the richest grandee of
this respectable world stare"
really quite envied that fellow regnant
in his sphere of the scissors, the exultant,
triumphant self-consciousness which in
vested him with that outspokenness of
defiant insolence. It conveyed the keen
est slur with an untranslatable foreign
fnesse in this wise. What's the question
to me, now with my fame established
one of money-the most money, the most
attraction beyond that question of money,
and how far would your Responsibility
help me? It is not in my market.
draw the line at money, and on Sc
range. Volta tout, miladi!
To illustrate in this Gallo strain that
gentleman had adopted Napoleon's motto
''de G.tdace tonjours de y audace" with
a congenial belief in his resources.
Now then by sort of family resem-
blance another sst of people is suggested
by the foregoing variety. II is the lot OF
humans who impassively count on
prevalent in third OF the civilized race
and thereby secure the best places in their
daily route of existence, and places, too
which belong to other people by privity.
and by purchase.
Not long ago l came over the Iowa
Minnesota railway division. It was g cat
tie car, not in the matter of horns and
hoofs, but in the sense of the most in
vulnerable selfishness imaginable. A rep
resentatiOr of the inmates of that car had
the instincts of thieves in holding on to
what did not properly belong to them, and
what they did not pay for to the exclusion
of the rights of those who had, who having
this abashed fibre whereof 1 speak, would
| not enforce them through cowardice at
provoking scene.
IS if those persons hadn't counted On
this very unquestioned acceptance of the
! situation!
To be sure they had.
| EThey know "their world" and work it to
their ease and comfort just as the three
card-rnonte men recognizeithe verdant ele-
ment.
| There was one woman aboard with a
sallow, puny, vicious looking tootsy-
wootsy which, erstwhile in the Spartan
worlds decree would have been strengled
at it's birth because of its uncanny prom
Use, but which in this day of lenity and
progress lived to take up five seats of q
rsilwsy oar with its absorbing mamma.
First there was one brace of seats fixed for
its elfish slumber, only it never showed the
least symptom of drowsiness ithe whole
journey, and its preternatural activity was
something quite remarkable. The mother
had beside her an argent drinking mug, its
surface broken out with some rash and
lumpy designs of fruit, and next it were
paper bags of edibles considerably the
worse for travel, and flies which grouped
themselves with grateful consideration of
the provisions" like Roswell l. Flowers
illustrious dsrkey who heard of the ''pro-
visions" in the constitution and was bound
to be on hand with a bag. Back of her
were piled wraps, basket and satchel, lead
! ing the newly entering traveller to imagine
an owner in the smoking car. Here were
FIVE. seats taken by woman who had only
paid for one, 10 the cool exclusion of the
abashed-ibrso ones who were hoddled to-
gethsr, stood up, and passed into dingy
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