The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
iRKsOME sUITICAL LETTERS
And n Great Deal of Other Useless
T0liy Resorted to for Ap-
psarAn.e Sake.

as possible could De extracted from the
victim and Us great percentage of de-
ceptioa and display distilled into him.
VIVA. is herein said about rim has
reference also 20 ler; Il his cGss Ae
embraces her-a ve-y conMoa occur
renee.
Society is the froth on the 5eer-very
retty when there is something beneath
il worth having, 0Qt We DON; want 1t
ali fro h.
Well, we've got II. anyway-thst is,
society. Il str EeS .sr0miscuousiy, ouE
hits EVERYWHERE. me Cd, lnrirm and
feeble VINO mlgaf NATURALLY De supposed
10 nave outgcoHn tna lnhrmiGles OF
vonth coming II for thei: snare of the
Infection hke the Youthful and giddy.
Even those VINO would seem TO have no
special object in causing themselves 10
be 50 distorted that Mother Nature
doesn't know them-honeSt anG
homely fellows like the writer OF this
srticIe-haVe not been permitted TO
escane; and it really takes up nearly
ali of ones time trying TO prevent hlm-
SELF from appearing unsophlsticated |
and behind the age. The amount OF
| ANNOYANCE and inconvenience the aver
! age inhabitant above the age OF Il |
years, exclusive of Indians not taxed
/ and those who have nothing TO tax,
will undergo to avoid snV appearance
| of greenness and to assume the appear
anCe of one who mas passed through
the society refinery and come out al
the right end, is wonderful, OF would
be if it wasn't so nearly universal.
observed on one occasion such
nice man meeting a couple OF lady
friends. He had large bundle-pre-
sumabiy his wife's new dress-on his
left arm, and his cane was carried
in his right hand. To raise his
hat TO them with his right
hand with his cane dangling in 1t
would have been bad form, and to have
shifted it to the other would have been
extremely Quite, if Lot TO some extent
de lure and ceTtiOrGri. 1t ended IN his
i, IdrOpping his precious burden, 1t burst
open, got soiled and he got somethlng
else when he reached home. But ne
got the hat off. Now this person was
supposedly sensible citizen and had
, never committed an ohense before that
know of. The only thing | ever
heard of derogatory to MIN was
that he had served term in the Legis-
lsture-but what of that? If l were
on q Jury which was trying man for
crime and no other evidence could
be produced than that he had been in
the Legislature, would refuse to con-
! Wet, although others might be as per-
verse as myself and thus hang the jury
, instead of the accused. But what
could be thought of him after that lit
tie episode? 70 raise ones nat on
meeting lady acquaintance is grace
full thing to do, one that, II 1t be prop
erly done, is calculated TO promote
friendship and likely to cause pleasant
,, feelings a;terward, unless the hatilfter
is married man while the lady is
Young and handsome and the fellow s
wife gets to hear of the transaction with
, the customary embellishments and ad
: ditions. Even when the act is per-
. formed with the utmost impun1ty and
: immunity,it is poor compliment to the
! fair friends for the one not so fair to
l undergo what the person re-
I ferred to did on that occasion
y it was equivalent to saying to them
~ You haven't got sense enough to see
!. how heavily | am embargoed and now
. entirely impracticable it IS for me tt
Il extend the customary pollteness. anC
=, so of course you can take the VIII for
J. the deed and let me Oft with bow ano
- a pleasant word. Oh, no; l will haV'
| TO make d SdCIlnCC VI OOLullOh oCho>
q and even decency to cause you II
understand that l N in society up tC
e nv neck and know all the ropes" ism
That about the way of it?
Another annoyance to those whose
occupation causes them to deal largely
! with concrete facts-when such can b.
found-is the Ubiquitous custom SOM
society people have OF sending notes o
invitation or the ike to friends
&c and putting a string CT capital letters a
IL the end of them (the notes, not thu
n friends). | got one once. and at thu
end of the document were the cabal
istic characters, IS. 2. V. B."
wouldn't have been exactly the thing t.
is show III ignorance OF the rules OF so
III ciety By IL anybody what the
meant. AL. almost studied mysel
sc into the Provo Jlum $50 calledl try
I'll ing to get it thr )ugh the citadel OF IN,
he imagination, but 1t wouldn't come
Such explanations as Some peopi
very rich and San Pete Valley Rail
Vay" we're plausible enough, but didn
as seem to fit. 1 had to give it up hnall
m and don't know but l am as well OF
The latest thing of this kind perpe
nc trated on me was in the boom end
lg the Thirteenth Ward. After taking u
~ NV abode there, the first thing | re
at ceived after the regular monthly pol
tax notice was scented mlsslVe
the words and figures following, to-wi
y Mc. Essay Cajgh-Would you be s
~ kind as to form one of pleasant part
e at -, this evening.
o. Very truly,
lis P. G. s."
Those concluding letters didn't worr
me so much. | took them to meal
please come soon," and fastened
eompIy, Hastily putting on my othe
u collar and smoothing out tt
Or remains of a once head of hal
VS. I adjourned to the place dt
yo signated; but l was doomed to disal
pointment. There was no one at HON
Taking this as a sample OF what ii
society craze will run people into, be
hasty retreat. l afterward learnt
rs from a friend who was present that Il
M affair came off and they had a glorio
ds' time; but that it was bad form
IN come before 10 p. m. then asked III
M what in "P. G. s." meant. and r
i've csiyed the stunning yet altogether gr
So flor, that If WaGh Plea