Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-20
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ports About ~ 40 Great Harm.
There are few people, especially there
= are few Of the more artistic sex, who have
not taste for splcnd0r, for luxury Tor the
impressiyely picturesque in human life
and in its manner OF living This is, how
ever, by no means TO shy that they are un
happy if they cannot live magnfoently
themselves.
A very small number are able TO do that,
and a large number weAre gMl TO believe.
have too good sense to do so il they could
But it is to them qualification TO sec
what is splendid to read of it and to talk
about it.
We have not, in America, the European
resource to feed the public fancy-a court
with king and queen and princes, and
above all, princesses. One need spend but
very short time abroad to learn how real
a place the doings OF these personages have
in the every day life Of the common people
They recur in conversation as regularly as
the weather and with infinitely more inter
esting variations.
There Is always prince with Il rumored
romantic love story, or an engaged prime IS
whose trousseau is a wonder of lace and
embroideries, or a royal baby just chris
tened or young couple married amid pop
ular rejoicings heightened to the utmost
dramatic effect by flowers and music, festi
walls and illuminations
A true American girl Of democratic in
clinations is annoyed to find how easy il is
to slip into the habit of foreign country
in these respects, and almost ashamed to
discover how real is her interest in peor le
of whom only few are politically impcr
tant, while many are a burden upon their
nation and their very magnifcence re-
proach.
Yet we have something Of the same sort
at home-more crude less artistic and
without the carefully arranged effects, and
what might be called the decorum Of TX
ury which centuries of court life and kingly
rule have produced in Europe.
We have an indefinite but gorgeous
something called society, which is apart
from all the thousand more genuine in
telligent and helpful social circles which
pervade the United States
This society does really fulfill one want
of human nature, 1t is not averse to news
paper fame, and the accounts of its balls,
dinner parties, costumes and equipages are
supplied daily to the public.
1t has money. 1t can buy beautiful
things, and the descriptions of these satisfy
the imagination Of many gay and sensi
BILE country girl, who If she, too, were
millionaire would spend her money more
wisely than upon trunks full of the rX-
travagant creations" of a Paris dress
maker or superfuous jewels enough to fill
q showcase.
She questions the extravaganza that
spends asfortune for floral decorations that
fade in night, and thinks the money
wasted on costumes for famous fancy
dress ball something very nearly wicked
But she reads of these things because they
minister to her Imagination and bring
scenes OF splendor and beauty wildly be
fore her eyes.
She reads of the tournament in Ivan
hoe" which we do not expect her to enjoy
the less for disappearing of the theory of
tournaments.
This society news" as it is called, is
widely read, and certainly indicates some
thing more than admiration on the part of
many people of the empty, foolish and con
spicuous mode of life depicted.
The sooner such society is RELOCATED in
the public opinion to the post of picturesque
uselessness occupied by royalties and cour
tiers in other lands the better. Youths
COMPANION,