The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-13
TYPICAL MEN ABOUT TOWN.
Young Americans Who Cultivate the Con
seriousness of Being Wicked.

Young Americans Who Cultivate the Com
seriousness of Being Wicked.
New York Correspondence San Francisco Argenaut.
There is another young man of good family
and considerable wealth who aourishes here
He usually belongs to the Kniekerbecker and
Union clubs, dresses with pronounced affecta-
ton Of everything that is English wears SIM
gle glass; and is a society man by profession.
have such man in mind. His name seldom
gets into the papers, and he never, by any
chance, does anything that will bring him be-
fore the public He has served as chairman on
the committee of application of both his clubs
and he knows the inside history of every pFe8ni-
nent family in New York. His grooms, horses
carriages and, indeed, everything but his house,
are English, and, as he was edueated at Oxford,
it is difficult to believe that he Is not really an
Englishman. He speaks Of the Prince of
Wales as the prince, asif there was only one
prince, and he was one of his subjects, and he
knows Burke's s.Peeragen by heart He drives q
coach, and refuses ten invitations where he ac-
ceptS one. He prides himself ON being asked to
the most exclusive entertainments, and spends
weeks of thought on the six little dinners that
he gives every season He gossips pleasantly
with women reads the prayer book, and is de-
tested by every man he knows except his para
sites. Hrs success with fashionable women is
amply amazing. He is thin and angular His
time is divided up so that he walks and drives
IS altogether what he has always striyen to be-
a distinguished society man, He never goes be-
low Twenty third street There are not more
than half dozen such gorgeous beings in New
York.
Another man who is often met is the younger
son of wealthy widow or acareless father who
is allowed $40, 600 or $l5 000 for pin money, be-
sides the debts he manages to contract with his
tailor and florist This specimen very often gets
into the papers, has numerous intrigues with
actresses, considers himself d frightfully wicked
specimen of humanity when he succeeds in lug
ging some woman of the stage off to supper, and
cultivates round shoulders and wearled, ex-
hausted and dissipated expression. He drinks
ahsipthe cocktails, talks continually about
women, and passes with the younger Inembers
of his set as an awfully bad man
1t is not infrequently the case that this youth
there great many Of the kind in New York
imagines himself very much more deprayed AMI
wicked than he really is. His father usually
knows which way the wind is blowing and al
lows the boy to have his swing. After he has
sown his wild oats the young man not infre-
auently settles down into solid, good Ratured
and thorough going, business man. He then af-
fects the blase air Of man who has seen every
thing in the world, and gives fatherly advice to
other young men who are endeavortng to spend
large incomes after the manner which he af-
fected. These youngspendthriftsa are COMMONLY
the most agreeable men in the world. Once in
while you will find one who is pulled up at his
own Importance; but, as rule, he has the good
nature of a high liver.