Daily Republican., 1885-05-28
MODEM PRETENDERs,

A lady who sails into fashionable
church, kDeels in her cushioned Dew
in devotion, and then makes ill-natured
| remarks about her Deighbors, or refuses
q place on, her seat TO visitors who are
minus silks, diamonds, and style, is a
fair specimen of q person who ought to
be made to look into a glass that would
| reflect all her leading and browning
sins.
Look at the man aping his brother
OF genius. and wearing spectacles be.
cause the great man does, dressing In
blue for the Same reason, pretending to
be- afflicted with the same griefs, giving
the same tone to his voice, splitting AZ
| the great man spits.
Now, when this specimen Of a man
puts on these kinds of airs, and people
begin to see 1t and remark it. and be-
come disguised with it, it would De a
famous thing IT the imitator could just
| for a day stand behind tho scenes and
look at himself.
Oh, with what shame and confusion
he would put on the man and off the
| counterfeit!
The world is full of this species of
shams and frauds.
And society is no constituted that a
community will permit imposition up
on imposition without exposing the
one who perpetrates the fraud.
| Society. permits . great many pecca-
dilloes.
People will smile and silently con-
denim, but seldom dispose.
| Observe this one imposing upon a
community in various ways, pretend
ing to be what he is not, and holding
i him calf n hnnpaf NJ piOna n Y nrfh0-
dox, when he IL the veriest mountebank
in all the city.
If only this vagaboud of fellow
could see himself through the eyes of
respectable people, how quickly he
would Jump the town In disgust !
Here ia lady, airing II like prin-
cess In jewels and diamonds, with no
more culture than Hottentot, insisting
upon claiming position in literary
circles; why, If the poor woman coul,i
only glance through the glasses rs her
neighbors at herself, how soon she
would pull down the blinds of her
dwelling and go into perpetual winter
quarters.
Now, there are scores of people con-
Itinuously acting a borrowed part, con-
ltinuously aping others, or fashioning
after some one, and We are none OF IN
acting out and ont our real parts in the
great life drama; but then the world Is
packed full of flaming hypocrites, real
wicked creatures, who think they are
hood winking everybody and the saints
too, for all that.
| What do you think of mau who is
beund by all legal and honorable ties to
a woman, and then, away from her
presence, fiirts with others, putting
himself in many questionable attitudes
in the face Of good breeding, honor aud
ideGency, and going out of his way to
display his zeal in the interest of an.
other, nothing to him, and can be
nothing to him during the lifetime OF
his wife.
What, indeed, must those who see
this strange spectacle think of the
man?
What, in point of fact, must the
woman who ls the recipient of these
attentions, if she Is what she ought To
be, think?
And what must the wife, whose life
Is bound upon that of her husband
think, If ever this fact comes within
the scope of her vision?
Why, 1t seems to me that such man
If he Just knew what sort of an estimate
these spectators put upon him, would
slip down into the earth through tis
sure that would not admit the fines
cambric needle.
What a blessing It. would be, too, i
he could see himself through the eye
Iof others.