Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-03-25
s.TREATING.,,
II Logic of this Frce.and-E Easy
Custom Looked Into.

The Logic of this Free.Rnd-E Easy
Custom Looked IntO.
The custom of creating" in Nevada
and California and other States of the
Union, but especially in the communities
Of the Far West" is so prevalent that its
propriety is very rarely, if ever, called
into question by those among whom it is
practiced. A friend invites you, or you
invite him, to oysters or to drink or to a
seat in the theater. You are his guest or
he yours for the occasion and the host
foots the bill. We doubt if one man in a
hundred ever stopped to consider what he
was doing from the standpoint of econ
omy. Creating" is done simply in the
spirit of good fellowship, and as a rule
money spent in this way goes freely and is
turned loose in the spirit that prompts any
other expenditure for pleasures sake. OF
course there is lots of foolishness accom-
panying it. Treating is often done for
show and with the transparent motive Of
getting up a reputation for liberality, but
in all things there are liberal Dicks.
these fellows would not be less numerous.
They would appear in other liberal shapes
and spend their money for the sake of
buncombe. We do not know of anything
in the practice of treating, however, OF
such fine recommendation as to render it
indispensable, even in %newamining camps,
in which, above all other places, it is pre-
sumed that everybody will give his loose
money "a chance" Still there is m
thing very cold blooded in the fashionable
mode of drinking that prevails to some
extent in the Eastern States and England.
You are invited very politely by a friend
to go with him and "wet your whistle"
After you have moistened, according to
invitation, yout put down a ten-cent piece,
or a nickel, and he does likewise. Shortly
afterwards you play the same thing back
on him; you invite him to pay for his own
drink. The New York Herald thinks
treating a very silly and vicious custom;
that if you treat q friend to a drink, why
not treat him to something else, a pair of
cuffs, or u straight" scarfpin? There is
no reason why. You may present your
friend with anything very valuable, if you
please, a fine horse, Government bonds, or
even a hot stove, and if he belongs to the
proper profession he'll accept and take the
gift away.
But this is the Eastern sentiment as
'SiSSu W LIZ llCl n paw VI tCtllio
a few days ago were visiting places in
which creature comforts are kept in bottles
and sold by the glass. One man, whose
turn it was to treat" led the crowd into a
furnishing store and asked them what they
would have. One ordered a shirt collar,
another took cuffs, a third asked for a
scarfpin. which, it is to be presumed, he
took "straight;" but it is nevertheless re-
lated of all the party that they felt rather
sheepish. 1t is hard to understand why,
unless they held to the old fiction that
good feeling which moves a man to spend
money on his friends can be expressed
only by the purchase of liquor. Those
who nsu strong drinks at bars or give
them to other men know very we'll that
fiction is exploded thousands of times
every day. Although a man can some
indicate hosiptable feeling by in
his friends to his house or his hotel
and giving them wine he cannot crafty
same sentiment by ranging the same
before a bar and paying for what
ever liquors they may simultaneously pour
down. 1t il far more manly and consider
ate, if custom requires spasmodic OUTLAWS
of money on ones friends, to treat to shirt
collars and scarfpins, for they are just as
they last longer and, unlike drinks,
do not usually compel the receiver to
curse the giver.