, 1885-12-06
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The Wide Distinctions That separates
These Sorts OF Persons.

''Shops. cads and cockneys. - said AN
authority upon the subject. ARE terms
that in this country especiallv. arc often a
good deal mixed and i~nterchanged The
fact is they express three wholly distinct
;da,s +, NAV sound stronea m vou I'm,
either a snob or a cockpey NAV be n gen
tleman. A cad, of course. can never be
a gentleman. inasmuch as in England.
where the term had its origin. is mean
ing il something the very reverse OF all
we understand by the word gentleman
[ will begin with the snob.
The story has been often told of three
men who were trayelingin A compartment
of an English railroad carriage. The two
more simply dressed men were dukes, and
were acquainted with each other. The
more SLOWLY dressed person was a con
mercial traveller, who soon got into CONVEX
sation with the other two. At last the
train stoned and one of the noblemen
got out. The manner in which he was re-
ceiye BY the porters and others IN the
platform startled the commercial traveller.
and turning to his remaining companion
he hastily asked: Who il that gentle
mann
That. was the reply, was the duke
Of
Good Lord cried the astounded
! drummer, what extraordinary condescen-
| sion on the part of his grace to be chat
ting away to a couple of little snobe like
you and me
Now that man was not a snob at all,
though he thought he was. He was only
u cad. Had he been a snob he would
have seen no special condescension in any
dakc chatting with him, and even had he
felt a little proud of the exalted company
he was in he would never have mentioned
the fact to any body else.
A snob invariably has a very good
opinion of himself, but he has this advan-
tage, he does not take the trouble to point
out in one way or the other his merits to
every one with whom he comes in con-
tact, for he entertains no shadow of a
doubt that they are as apparent TO all
others as to himself. He dresses with a
taste that may often be questioned, but
he usually follows his " Judgment,
however faulty that may be, and when he
applies the style adopted by some other
person it is the garb he initiates, not the
man who is in it. He is above the latter
weakness, for he is not a flunky. A story
is told OF a man who went to take a plunge
in a large inclosed bath, but did not 90
in because he detected n dry salter in the
water. He paid for his bath and
went out without saying a word
about his reason for changing
his mind. He did not wish to offend or
annoy the dry saltcr: but neither did he
wish to battle with him. He was not a
cad, for Il cad, had he decided upon the
same course, would have taken care, re-
gardless of the feelings of the dry %salter.
to boast of his reasons for not bathing,
and have made them as public as possible.
Snobs are often ~favorite members of the
highest and most refined classes of society.
for there is, as q rule, nothing c%ringing or
mean, or repulsive about them. They
draw very rigid rulesl separating social
ranks, and place themselves, honestly be-
lieving they are right, well up in the scale.
The term cad is not very well known
in America. The person it is applied to,
however, is a familiar object enough.
He may be a clever man, and a very Just
and honest man, for the blackguard is
widely distinguished from the cad. He
is an utterly insupportable fellow. He
never wearies of telling his companions
what good company he keeps, how the
nobility yearn for his society, and often
yearn in vain. He knows well enough
that he is a low-natuIed and unattractive
sort of n fellow. When he accidently
drifts into the society where he processes to
move he sinks at once into his proper
position, and makes no attempt to stand
on terms of equality with those around
him-though all that is forgotten when
he speaks of the event to his lr.endso on the
following day. A corner loafer2 oh, mol
The corner loaier Is Il blackguard, pure
and simple, and much more dangerous
than the cad, who, though a horrible
bore, IS comparatively harmless
'Of course the cad must occasionally
acknowledge that he has been beyond his
depth, and this generally occurs when he
is surprised-as in the cas- OF the com
mercial traveller on the railroad main wbo
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