Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-22
wOMAN,s SNOBBERY.
Habits of she Genus Affecting It- What May be Gained From the PracEIce-as a Change Desirable.

Habits of the Genus Affecting It.
 What May be Gained From the
 PracGIce-Hs a Change Desirable.
 There has lately been an article in the Boston Traveller which contains some whole some advise to women, and also relates some dissgreeable and undesirable truths about them, and certain style of behavior they are apt to affect This is nothing more nor less than what we commonly call "snub- ping" Every one knows what it is. If we have not felt it ourselves we have seen some one else apparently whitening under the blighting influence of calm, cool disapprov- ing eyes, some times finished of with pair of lorgnettes. One may see any day many girls and women using their unparalleled "nerve" in staring down presumptuous peo- pie, who have the audaeity to live and move about, but who perhaps do not come up to some of the regulation ideas of the 'star- ers" Many worse offense is more readily forgiven than what appears to be dellbe- rate and successful attempt to make another person uncomfortable, and this hateful prao- tice is not confined to full grown women. Our friends in short dresses are often quite as i'll bred and make the hearts of their small friends to burn within them many and many time.
 The boarding school girl is only a larger edition of the dancing school girl, and if she was a snob in long curls she will only be Q more accomplished one in high puffs. What some girls we'll along in their teens have to endure when they begin their boarding school course is pitiable. The way they are ''sized up' and looked over, their gowns ex- amined and the material felt! How they are questioned as to what hour they dine at home and whether their father has horses,
 
 mined not to be extinguished, and calmly as- sert themselves, they will come out of all this initiation with flying colors; but if they are bashtul and easily snubbed they will simply suffer. One young lady when ques- tioned at school as to her fathers business CT, he being the indispensable man who sup piled the corner stands with their line of trade. She was sorry, she said. but the fault was not hers, and she hoped the others
 would not mind assoeiating with girl who
 was so well acquainted with peanuts. The girl who was SO interested in her friends father soon discovered that she had been imposed upon and was very indignant, but | it probably was good thing for her. A wealthy Australian girl on her way to Eng | land with her mother opened @ converse | tion one evening with an American lady in l a foreign hotel, and after frequently allu- ding to her "maid" and her brothers "tu- tors" inquired of the American if she had ever seen a music hall. Without waiting | for an answer she at once plunged into a l long and rambling description of what such | a thing was like, and described many other | similar objects to her listener, who passed a | most entertaining evening and had quiet | laugh all to herself in the elevator.
 People of this kind never dream of being funny. They would lorgnette person most
 unmercifully who ever suggested such a
 thing; but they are; in their innocence, their seriousness, their complete and devoted ab- sorption in self and utter uneonsciousness of any possible ridicule, they are most delight | fully and undeniably funny. One person
 who was enjoying herself very much in a | foreign hotel made her daughter her strong | point in conversation. This daughter, she said to her audiences, had married an Eng Iishman and dressed for dinner every even- | ing in gown, the corsage of which was al- ways either cut out in point or square, or a round shape in the neck. She forced these qeometrioal figures upon every one's atten- tion, and kindly explained to them the daily routine of life in family, the members oi