St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
A WESTERN GIRLS VIEWS.
sherand n Young Virginian 'sTak
a Risess Out of New York Society


Rises Out of New York Society.
New YORK, Jan. 14.-Dear Grace: You
know | promised to tell you something
more about that house party. Well, the
only other man who appeared on the horizon
besides the New England manufactures.
who had TOO much sense TO seek the society
people here, was a young Nirginian, who
is on one of the great New York dailieS.
Our hostess had told us all about the way
his people lived before the war, and their
coat of arms, and crests, and fOur-horSe
coach, until 1 expected 10 find him regu-
lar braggadOciO, and hated him before /
ever saw him. Just imagine my surprise
and delight when L found him to be the
most sensible, practical. Woodworking fell
low you ever met. L saw plainly why he
had been invited. lie had very distin-
guished name, and. although he was moth
ing but newspaper man." as he said, he
was
INVITED To THE BEST HOUSES
i'm New York. And precious glad | was,
when first came to New York, TO get in
Yited 10 dinner-because if hadn't l would
probably have dined of sandwich and a
glass of beer" | noticed that they all adj
mired and petted him, and thought his
frankneSs delightful. while they had been
rather chilly toward the Connecticut manu-
facturer. who was i'm his way every whit
the equal of the Nirginian-but the magic
halo of family" which the New Workers
adore without exactly knowing what ii is.
hung over the one and didn't hang over the
other. But the Virginian was certainly q
pleasant fellow, and i'm some way or other
we cOalesced wonderfully. Wasn't it
strange, as he represented the oldest and
IN ilfyuf
Anyhow we entered into a league defensive
and offensive, and we took rise" as he
called it. occasionally out of the New York
eTs. Here is one: We were speaking one
night at dinner about the unpleasant Gus
tom of
NOT INTRODUCING PEOPLE
i'm new York IL called it unpleasant; all
the others. except my Virginian. seemed To
think il the acme of correctneSsl. Now.
what do you suppose this fellow said, i'm the
most amiable way in the world? lit is not
strange that the custom, or any custom,
should obtain in New York. Society is so
new there, so shifting that the people have
no standard and no traditions. There is no
organized opposition 10 any change i'm man
ners, and as everybody alike is new To what
is called the great world there is no past
behind them-only the present." He gave
1
concluded il was time to put in my oar.
The guests looked little uneasily at each
other. In spite of their all-pervading aris-
tOcracy. each knew the other was nobody
except by virtue of the mighty dollar acting
for the last forty years. Sin Virginia.
am told. / said Sweetly, lat entertainments
everybody is introduced Always"
promptly responded my friend. II sup
pose" continued. 1.-The reason is as readily
seen in this case as in the other. You have
had fixed society for many generations.
Your social
LAW OF PoLITENEss
was settled before Mr. AstOr sold peltrv.
Naturally, you don't change it lightly.
Any such innovation as not introducing
people would be met by a determined op-
position on the part of all people constitut-
ing society.
Now. Grace, don't you think that was
neat? Mind, / wasn't transgressing polite
ness because the subject was up for discus
sion. L didn't draw the PARALLEL only
mentioned the instance.
My Nirginian gave me a delightful grin
before anybody glanced around i'm his direc-
ton, but he said in a moment, as grave as
judge: Il think the Western cities are TOO
cosmopolitan IN character ever TO initiate
any particular nation. They will adopt
from each what is good, and eventually have
perfect code of manners adapted to Amer
leans"
You ought TO have heard us chuckling in
a corner over our joint success.
The people bored him to death, asking
him about his family. when they had come
over from England. and dozen other things
He was immensely amused when told him
that L had read there were proud aTistOcrats
in xrbn Al faI
way back
BEFORE THE GREAT FIRE
but, as for my own family, they had come
TO the surface in the course of the great
wheat deal of 1877. He asked me how |
dared to hold up my head before those
lordly New Workers, who had not sold
wheat nor hardware nor dry goods for at
least twenty-five years. We got on SPLEEN
didly. Ostensibly he was always laughing
at me. and vet L got on better with him
than any other girl in the house. think
the others had suspicion he was laughing
at them behind their backs.
l haven't had chance to tell you about
| the girls moids. They We're as afraid of
the maids as if they were wild animals.
There were two in the house-not wild ami
mails. but maidstone brought by the mar
ried belle and the other by the two girls 1
SpoAo Oi- Vic WAS FIelcn ana pert, the
other was English and stubborn. They
dressed in all the finery they could pile on
"a thing they wouldn't and couldn't have
dared in their own country. One of the
girls complained that her maids bracelets
tore her hair when she was dressing it. L
asked her way she didn't make the maid
take it off. She said she had tod her, but
the maid declined. That's the reason,
Grace, why
NEVER KEPT A MAID.
They are perfect tyrants, and, since /
can't make them obey me, don't choose to
learn obedience to them. My Virginian
met the French maid on the stairs. and de-
clares that If be hadn't held on for dear life
10 the balusters he would have been swept
off his feet by the train to her dress.
What do you suppose is the last thing in
] jackets? A bright-red cloth one, trimmed