Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
THE WORLDS GOOD FELLOWS.
A Cynio Defines Them Is Those Usually
Buried at Other Peoples Expense-A
Chicago Aunty in Gotham-PatheticL Life
Hiatorv nj Thrsa SI.tar.

NO, I'm not what is termed "a good
fellow" said he, lighting another cigar
alone and looking cynically upon the Broad
way throng as it appears to man on the
Hoffman House steps. lam glad I'm not.
That plump little gentleman in eyeglasses
who just borrowed 81 Of me is one Of your
good fellows He used to be credited with
several hundred thousand dollars-now he
borrows 50 here and there and never pays a
cent back. He owes everybody who ever
had anything to do with him and has run
bills at every chop house and bar in the
city where they'll stand 1t. He used to
drink nothing but champagne and eat terra
PIN ana canvasback. Nothing was too gooo
for him. He played the races poker and
faro and ran with the fast crowd and specu-
lated. don't believe he ever did days
work in his life since he was one-horse
| lawyer down in Pennsylvania. He had no
| use for man like me then.
Il could give you similar story of many
a good fellow" continued the cynic.
There's another maD-a handsome, smart
young Princeton college man-who is well
known about upper Broadway. He always
| looks genteel and wears his slick silk hat
tilted back on his head and a pair Of gold
trimmed glasses on a gold chain and is a
'masher.' He is a polished gentleman, gets
| good salary, lives at a Broadway hotel,
| plays pool and billiards well and talks poll
| tics wisely but loudly around the art gal
lery' and spends money literally among
good fellows Everybody who knows him
| says he is q good fellow and suppose he is,
| for he borrows money of anybody who will
| lend it to him and has the reputation or
| never returning a cent His best friends
WI NIL caution you against ioanlng MN money.
| 1ngly admits that he has no more idea or
| money than child.
"I don't say all good fellows are like
n n oil lrNff In ana ara "
| recognized good fellows ever knew are OF
the same type-reckless and improvident,
| and, If they 1.-Two long enough, come down TO
the same level of financial responsibility:
! don't say they are my ideal good fellows
but they certainly are the good fellows OF
| the world at large. The essential quality of
the good fellow is the ability and willing
| ness to spend money (his own or other peo-
pies money! on everybody and everything
and have fun with it. Whenever you meet
man who will not do that-who takes care
OF MS earnings and lays up money for his
! family or himself, and who will not bum
around with a lot of loafers-he will not be
known as good fellow Be assured OF
that. The good fellow is not always
'6eat.' but he is the sustenance of beats until
they get him sucked dry, whereupon he
either reforms and ceases longer to be a
as they are beats. My definition of "a good
fellow Is man who is usually buried at
somebody else's expense"
The Young Man and His Gloves.
The young man and his gloves come
forth with the other green things to delight
the esthetic eye and gladden. the heart of
metropolitan mankind. The poet hath said
that man differeth from the other animals
principally in his ability to get drunk. Let
us put 1t in happier vein and say that it is in
his ability to appreciate the young man and
his gloves. There are other glories of Broad
way-there are other forms OF loveliness to
"a nd ftn do 81 f1,a
Strand"-there are other prismatic views of
the young man. But we turn to the young
man ana his gloves with peculiar feeling
of quiet, pastoral misunderstanding akin
TO what we experience in watching the new
born lambs cavorting on the green hillsides
OF Central Park. There are some plain,
practical people who do not care for lamb
with the wool on, who experience no thrill
ofjoy at the sight of the gentle awkwardness
of a two-year-old sheep skipping the free
WOOL tra-la-la-loo among the buttery dam
del1ons. 10 those say, skip this paragraph,
Tor the young man and his gloves are be-
the true philosopher to discover in every |
phase of human life some perhaps hidden !
beauty.
The young man and his gloves are by no |
means hidden, albeit beauteous to a degree. |
His red shoes and the yellow walking stick |
carefully balanced ferule up at an angle of |
tention-to dazzle the public eye and razzle-
dazzle the public mind SO that the happy |
combination of the young man and his |
gloves ray be lost. Sometimes the gloves
are carried daintily in the same hand that |
bears the mysterious stick, sometimes in the
other. They are never worn. They are in
variably new. You can see upon inspection
that the fingers have never been stretched.
They are genuine gloves however, and are
carried along in the same ostentatious way
that lady carries $40 pocketbook with
car ticket in 1t. Beyond mere show they
would appear to be of no more service to the
young man than the heavy walking stick
that is never touched to vulgar earth.
This is a mistake. The gloves. like the
yellow cane and the red shoes go to round
out the lovely external character of the
notwithstanding young man. They glad
den the eye of the beholder and thus aid in
making life worth living. There is divine
reason in everything in nature, when we
look at it from the right point of view. If
we do not at once understand why walk
or why the young man should carry new
pair Of gloves instead Of an extra shirt or a
clean collar for emergencies, it is because it
is not given to all of US to comprehend the
beautiful.
How Chicago EnthusIasm Works.
"A friend of mine had relative of the
aunt degree from Chicago recently here on
visit She was over 80, but as nimble as
cricket and was never tired of comparing
New York with her dear Chicago. Dear old
was so proud OF her native
and when she saw the bay she exclaimed:
"Dear me! And this is the ocean, is it? Well |
we'll! Lake Michigan is bigger than thisI''
They took her to old Trinity, but she said |
they had finer churches in Chicago and told
the acting deputy assistant sexton so. He
was surprised.
"Is this the biggest graveyard you've got
in New York;" she asked, looking over the
ancient churchyard They told her about
and went over to show it to her. |
Old women and young lovers are always in
terested i'll graveyards She stopped q | ,
was from Chicago and asked him where his
car went to. While he was explaining they
blocked up street for q mile, and then she
took another line. She sighed and declared
the horse car people East were not polite
rs they are in Chicago. When they got over
70 Greenwood she asked gardener if he
knew where any of the Little family were ]
buried. She once knew a person by that
name who was buried in Greenwood. AL
though she made a good many inquiries of
grave diggers and other workmen, none of
hem could furnish her the information. To | {
each one she said in sort of preliminary I
yay, that she was from Chicago. One man r
,aid that was all right-no apology was !,
necessary. She looked over several acres OF
and finally gave it up. When
4 short haired girl tried to sell her piece L
,f goods for II cents yard. Z
81 can buy that in Chicago for cents 'she !
declared II live in Chicago and you can't
DOL me on goods. And when they went out
he short haired girl and the cashier and
,avement to get another good look at her.
They went into Fulton Market and every
,ody wanted to sell her something to eat, q
,ut she told them she was from Chicago and t
Iork people ate. The buildings downtown
lid not impress the old lady from Chicago