The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-09-25
The Dude.
Pittsburg Sunday Traveller.

Has the dude died out, faded out,
been showed out, driven out or laughed
out of society," A few years ago he was
distinct race, as it were, pattern for
himself to himself. He was laughed,
scorned, Kissed, made the butt of Jokes,
good natured and invidious, and he
went on content with himself, needless
of the opinion of the rabble, proud of
his distinctive traits even though they
were mostly deformities in fact and
gaucheries in dress and manner.
True, he might be expected to die
off in generation, for, like the mule,
he was the last of his race and incapable
of reproduction, but he cannot have
died off yet. Did he go crazy, and so
have to be divorced from society by
cruel walls and clanking gates7 No,
he did not go crazy, because that pre-
supposes brains. Did he blow away in
high wind2 No, he did not blow
away. He was light enough physically
as we'll as mentally, but he could not
blow away because he did not present
surface resistance enough for the wind
to get hold of.
What has become of him2 You see
no wide line in dress and manner as
used to be drawn between the citizen
and mere dude. He could not have
.d;ed- vet because what there was of him
ing face territory. He could not nave
died out, what there was of him, be-
cause only an epidemic could kill him
off so soon, and there has been no such
endemic. He could not have died OF,
because a generation lasts longer than
two or three years.
There is only one way to account Tor
his absence, and that is by his presence,
paradoxical as it seems. Society mas
grown used to him, and has uncon-
sciously gone little way to meet him,
while he with the change of fashion, has
covered up his creaking anatomy with
commodious garb, and as he always was
from necessity quiet animal he passes
in the throng without note Tor wise
man. except when he occasionally speaks.
And now until he runs to the other ex-
treme in garb the dude will be as inot-
fensive and unnoted to the eye as he IS
to the ear-when he does not try to talk.
Taking and Giving Good Advice.
Taking good advice is quite differ
ent thing from giving good advice. Al
most everybody knows how to do the
second; next to nobody knows how to
do the first. Yet taking good advice
is normally, at least, quite as important
as giving good advice; and in the pres
ent state of the world, it is much more
important. What sudden change there
would be in this laundering old world
if the taking of good advice were as easy
and as pleasant as its giving.
1t was favorite thought and concei
! of the classical writer's that men wer'
divided into three classes: Men who
themselves, knew what they ought t.
do: men who did not themselves know
but who were willing to learn tror
e others what they should do, and me
] who neither knew nor would learn fror
e others what was best for them to do.
one cannot belong to the choice fe'
t who form the first of these two classe
h he ought, at least, to see that ne do'
not helnnu To the ignnhle- manv WI
I nM-The pretty maiden fell overooai
and her lover leaned over the side
" the boat as she rose to the surface al
i said: Give me your hand. fiea
ask papa,' she said, as she sank tor
second time.
=. aa%.Grandpa,' said Teddy as the {
90 gentleman woke up from loud sour
ing after-dinner nap, If you would 6
I'm your nose a spoonful of paregorlc' 40
tn YOU think you could put 1t to Sic
too2'
ore nG-A cheerful face is nearly as g
e. for an invalid as healthy weather.