Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-04-21

how all my efforts mad Deen i"'i0 -
ga I was about to place my nanu Oh u.
arm of this or that former fellow studsn.
he would glide in another direction. Ooui1
these movements be preconcerted! NO.
concluded that they must form result o.
circumstances alone-that goddess wh0se
0niver will to-day be full Of unlucky ar
rows and tomorrow most nsrmIessly
empty. Still, if either H1rlemflat or Perm
Ambov CT Hudsonby meant deliberately
to shun me then l WAS Determined qua
they should have the chance OF rudely shuO'
bling me into the bargain.
XIV.
1t was not until during a pause IN the
german that coOlly resolved 10 take tne
bull by the horns then left my sea. 81
the side of the depressing Jenny ana snip
ped softly up to Harlem A. Before lie
knew it was close at his SIDE =,
II really must ask favor OF you'
said.
He looked at me politely. He was
noted for his good manners. What ls tie
favor, Blank?' he asked. III do any
thing iu my power"
Thanks" I answered, putting a note
of grateful sincerity into my voice suen as
only a snob of the craftiest diplomacy and
cunning can properly employ. "Wnat
want to request of you, Harlemfiat, is
merely this-will you not have the great
kindness to present me to two or three
ladies' here in the cotillion?" said co
tiliion" because I had heard 1t used once
or twice during the evening instead OF
german" and had inferred that 1t was
now perhaps more modish than the other
word. "As you doubtless know, Harlem
fat, have scarcely been out at all. am
dancing with Miss Blocker. For the past
two figures, when my turn came to take
out lady, was decidedly embarrassed.
In one case, however, ! was able to select
our hostess, but in another / was forced
to choose 8 ; ang lady whom I didn't know,
and who gave me stare Of the haughtiesd
amszement before she rose.
HarlemAst laughed pleasantly. by
Jove, ola fellow" he replied, 81 under
stand the matter, of course" But as
he glanced about him l saw look OF
doubt and semi-anuoyance cross his face
II was plain enough that he was silent
ly wishing me to the devil for an aggrsva-
ting nuisance.
But, Notwithstanding, l was presented
by him to no less than three girls before
the german began again. They all receiv-
ed me coldly, and it required all my wit,
tact and acumen to prevent ihe little cpl
sodes of talk which followed these intro
ductions from being painfully awkward.
1 clearly understood just why such frugal
civilities were extended to me. First, my
name vas Blank, and there were no
Blanks in society; second, l was not a
Blank who had thus far made for himself
even sn individual prestige; and third, l
had bat too evidently been brought to
Mrs. Adirondack ]. Smiths by the bah
bling, idiotic, c3ricatursh Jennie Blocker.
Still, that night slept the sleep of the
snob who has striven and not egCegiously
failed. Small beginnings may mean
mighty endings. 1 felt that loftier
achievement was in me. Like the tyre
poet who tunes his lutte for lyric while
conscious ofepic qualities yet unlimited TO
his audience, l told myself that this
trivial prelude was perhaps but the initial
step to more massive accomplishments
beyond 1t.
And on the following day, by singular
appropriateness of occurrence, l was
MOI merely made aware of my promotion
at Messrs. Rosenblatt's, but of being
placed in peculiar, delicate and fatter-
| ing POSITION of trust. Here was my
salary, too jumping up into an actually
large figure within few hours, as though
il we're a question Of the mercury in &
thermometer rather than of another more
monetary metal in bank.
Good graciousr' 1 said to myself, when
my first surprise was over, Il am promis-
ing to be 'cstch'-a parti. in few more
years. May l only pove as lucky in other
ways as l have thus far proved in busi-
ness"
But l wrorgsd myself here. 1t was by
10 meaDs luck with me. 1t was simply a
brain as cold and sharp rs steel, accompe-
nied by habits of the most methodical reg
ulsrity. Never wss human snob more
admirably filled with temperament GELD
and stony. Some snohs are sufferers from
the irony of natural creation; they ind
themselves possessed of generous or even
noble impulses; they are born with bowel;
of compassion; they are subject to flashes Of
philanthropy or sympathy with their kind,
which visit them like seizures of neu
ralgia or indigestion. Woe to the snot
thus hsmpered by an inharmonious IN
correspondent disposition He runs the
chance of humilisting failure as snot
pure and simple, while his inalienablt
snobhery will forever preclude him from
an admitted place among the genuine Low.
ers of his kind.
Jenny Bleecker repeated her kindness il
the way of securing me an invitation tC
another entertainment, just as had fond
ly hoped and even carefully designed that
she should do. At this next entertainment
1 worked my way with dplOmb and
sdroituess. I amiably insisted that each
of three young ladies to whom l had been
presented at Mrs. Adirondack J. Smiths
should continue my acquaintance now, fol
all three of them were there, besides High
bridge Harlemfat and several Alpha Del
tas snd Alpha Nus of my past collegiate
experience.