The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-02-07

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used but one Of the folks, nor did I
find out what the others we're for,
unless it was to let us know that
she had them Society is a mighty
big thing in this sublunary world.
and the poor folks couldn't get along
without it. It's a great distributor
of Surplus money. Some poor fel-
low got a patent on those screws
and is making money out Of society.
When a swell dance comes on the
tailors and milliners get plenty to
do, for the ladies have got to keep
up with the latest thing from New
York or Paris, and the men have
got to have swallow tail coats and
three-dollar gloves and slipper shoes,
and all sorts of favors. | don t
know what favors are, but | read
about them lhs the papers, and 1
'fick0n they cost money. And the
1;yorv stan lag thrive, too, for arc
| ing folks can't walk, you know. So
! it is all right for rich folks to swell.
1t scatters THEN money, and so far
as | am concerned, they may keep
on swelling until they burst. But
! don't want our hard run folks to
turn fool and try to swell, too. If
they can't get into society without
swelling let them stay out. Silver
ware and diamonds and napkin
screws and coats with a swallow
folks in the tail arc all very nice,
but we common folks can't afford
them. and if that lets us out we will
stay out. | have known society
men to spend all their salary on
clothes and theatres. Now a swal-
low fork is quite beco ming to some
folks. All the colored walters in
the New York hotels wear them,
and so do the negro minstrels who
tramp over the country. | used to
mark my hogs with a swallow fork
in the lett ear. 1t seems to be q
popular thing but [ have known
some pretty good people who never
wore swallow fork coat. Stanley,
the great explorer, was invited to a
swell dinner in New York and wa 8
told that he must wear regulation
suit. He said that he didn't have
one. His friends said that he must
get one. "E shall not do it," said
he. "These clothes fit me and suit
me. | wore them in the presence
Of Queen Victo1ia, and she made
no complaint, and / shall not truck
40 70 the snobbishness of New York
society," am not society man. "
Hurrah for Stanley! | am proud
that he is a Louisiana boy. | do
love independent people those
who do not run after society and
who not fawn n tha presence of
millonairas, | saw genuine So
ciety dude the other day. 1t was
pointed out 10 M and | was salts
fed Just IL was when | saw a
ganier pulling or q man hung
never want to see another. He is
not fifteen to live nor to die. He is
a nonentity and just occupies space
that's all. Some of them imagine
they have honor stuck around some
where, and they talk big about the
code duello and sometimes they
raise rumpus in the newspapers,
hire a doctor and run of to another
state to fight, but they always take
along somebody to fix the matter
, up just before the tight comes off
Then they come back and stru
around as big as Watch. They ME
take the public sentiment. Nobody
cares cent whether they fight Of
not or whether they get killed o.
not. In fact disguised and long
suffering public feel like kicking
them both on that particular spo
where all their pretended honor
lies. May the good Lord preserv,
us from flood Of fools.
BILL ARP.
DR.. Atticus @. HaYMood lin re