The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-17
BOSTON GENTLEMEN I
The Hubs Ideal Of Pronounced
Gentility.
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Gem Of the Purest Boston Water Lets
His Tailor's Bnls Run a aYear-The
DiHerence Between q Puppy
and n Gentleman.
[Chicago Trlbune.l

Anxious inquirers as to what IL is makes
O man gentleman are getting q variety
Of information nowadays. Julian Haw-
thorne, in his recent lecture on English So
ciety, did not tell US what one must be to
be gentleman, but he did tell what one
must not be- All Englishmen, hs declared,
either cringe or condescend, and conse-
quently no Englishman can be q true gen.
tleman. Evidently the person in "Pina-
fore," who might have been Prussian or
an Italian, but in spite of all temptations
to belong to other nations remained an En-
glishman, put himself outside the pale OF
perfect gentility.l Another contribution to
the literature of this subject Is furnished
by our Boston dispatch Of the other day
telling of the issue OF gentlemanhood
raised by one of the gilded youth of Bos-
ton with tailor who presumed to ask him
to settle bill that had been running for a
year. ~if -
The gilded youth in question has set up
In business as o. gentleman of the purest
Boston water, and his behavior under the
provooation TO which we have alluded may
be taken as a gage Of the Boston IDEAL, OF
leastin the hero's set. By close and
painstaking study of this affair the young
fedglings Of our Chicago aristocracy can
learn how to qualify themselves to be ac-
cepted as fit associates by this kind Of
Bostoners when they meet them in the gay
whirl Of fashion. The first thing to do,
the students of manners will notice, is to
let your tailor's bills run. for a year and
more-the longer the more OF a gentleman
you show yourself to be. When the tailor
becomes urgent for payment, whatever
you do never be weak enough to pay. That
would put you at once on his level. II the
tailor is SO hopelessly vulgar fellow as
to know the Sheriff, and the emergency
takes on such. q shape that you must do
something, order your carriage-from tho
livery stable which gives the longest
credit-and drive In state to his shop.
If he is a person of any true fine-
ness Of feeling the sight Of your magni-
fcence win fill him, with shame at the
thought of disturbing you by reference to
anything 30 coarse and unrefned as q
money matter. He. will be glad to apollo
gize, and you win be safe for another year,
hThht Is the result which was expected by
our, Boston Ideal, Who tried this plan,
which for some reason didn't work. The
tailor insisted that he would like to have
the bill paid IL conve9ientJ Ma any comnon
people would, at this, have lost their self
control and paid. But not 90 The Boston
gentleman. He first informed the serf of
tho shears that he rwas souly, a tailor.b
Having been thereupon classified as a
puppy" by the. tailor, who appears to
have acquired a very fair knowledge Of
zoology, he knocked the old ,gentIenlan
down, laid out two of the shop assistants
who were coming to their masters aid, and
then adjourned like gay dog to the Po-
lice Court. This, he says, was not an as
sault, sit was simply reprihhanding them
for q piece of impertinence."
twas gentleman against o, tailor; a
young man against an old man; an idler
against worker; debtor against cred-
itor. Manteuffel said that mankind could
properly be considered to begin only with
therank of Count. According TO our Bos-
tdnian gentleman mankind can be
said to begin only with, thpse wbo
live on the culture and cnsh Of their
ancestors, who do not pay their
debts, and who thrash their creditors
ifthey are old and weak enough TO make it
safe. This occurrence In the realm Of fact
isquite In keeping with some of the per
formances of the Boston gentleman IN iic-
ton. There was Arbuton in "a Chance
Acquaintance" who, after having won the
lovt of a sweet and simple, hearted girl and
having pledged his honor asa gentleman to
love, protect aud defond -hor for life, was
mean enough to shrink from introducing her
to his aunts, hohefeared would not think
her "good forrn.p The fact that such .
cad could be portrayed by fashionable
novelist as a gentleman is quite as signid-
cant as the affair we have described. - =