Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-13
SOCIETY IN AMERICA.
a Brief Sermon Which Can Be Pondere
Over I'm High Places

a Brief Sermon Which Can Be Pondered
Over I'm High Places.
When John g. SAKE, in his one-time
famous satirical poem, ''The Proud Miss
Mcbride" made his deserved reflection on
the youth of American aristocracy, the
country was many years younger than IL is
at present Nevertheless, says the Boston
Gazette, ms structures are as applicable
now as they were then. Our aristocracy is
still thing for daughter, feers and
jeers," and it will continue to be so until
those who have wealth and influence, how
ever acquired, learn to regard their
number neIghbors as beings walking upon
the same planet as themselves and not AZ
inferior creatures from some other world
And 1T is to be remembered, just here, that
people who have suddenly acquired social
position are often more supercilious in
their bearing to persons who have been less
fortunate than are those who can boast as
long descent as this country can record.
So we find folk whose grandmothers
perhaps, sold spruce beer in a cellar. or
whose grandfathers dealt out LIQUOR at
tnree cents a glass at some corner proe-
gerry at the North End, assuming arrogant
airs when they happen to be thrown into
the company of those who are inteIIectD-
ally and morally their superiors. WHAT
SAID one OF these upstarts, 'do YOU sneak
10 your milkman when you meet him on
tne sSreetf j never notice any of the
lower orders except in the way of busi-
ness" The father of the person she
looked down upon may have been a Cen
eral IN the war of the rebellion, aud his
grandfather may have fallen with Warren
at Bunker Hill, but the memory of the in
solent social mushroom did not 90 bacIx az
far as that. She could recall with greater
readiness multiplicity of relatives of her
own who c3me over in the steerage from
Europe not 10 De too precise in the desig-
natlon OF localities across the sea.
We find no fault with those who endeav-
or TO better their condition. til the glory
OF this country that all may rise 70 place
and honor, without regard to their antece-
uents- What we object to is the assunup-
.lon OF superiority by many who have been
Drought by the whirligig of time, or. in
otner words, good luck, to a position that
tney never dreamed of occupying in the
day OF small things. These should remem-
Der that decent affability, without pre-
tenuous condescension, is the distinguish
ing mark OF all who really adorn rank and
station, and that another revolution OF the
wheel Of fortune may bring many again IN
the humble places from which their families
started
One may pour tea at an Afternoon receD-
uon In the most exquisite cf imported
gowns andlyetlremember that there IS some
unassuming sister, perhaps at the South
End, who has quite as sensitive feelings as
the elegant society lady, and who may be
her equal in intelligence and education:
Because you flourish in worldly affairs,
Don't be naughty and put on airs,
With insolent pride OF stationi
Don't be proud and turn up your nose
At poorer people in palmer cIo'es
But learn for the sake of your souls repose
That wealth is bubble that cones-and goes
And that all proud flesh, wherever ft grows
Is subject TO Irritation