Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-30

~ - Walk-tnat ls, lazlly, as
I: 3: !. !.
CN% If neither had ever had
a, RysaV ,h.h anything in the world
Ek wv lnNhLH to do. That both had
"A .VHiH|ll, been hard at work all
N HIlAIRa day making the where
TNN{ withal to support them
wv selves as chappies was
fact which one would not have been apt to
infer from their appearance. Arrayed with far
more elaboration, although apparently simply
than Solomon in all his glory. they. neverthe-
loss, looked as though they had never toiied or
spun in all their lives. The gentle stoop to the
shoulders that both had looked quite elegant
and English and who had n right to suppose
that it came from bending over a clerks desk?
The chappies walked along quite silently. and
that the chappie should speak seldom and with
evident effort At length one of them broke
| the silence
"ls--aw-is-aw, dancing good exercise. do
you SUPPOSE said he.
His companion struggled with the idea that
the question suggested for q few minutes and
then, by one of those happy flashes that some
times lights up the brain OF the man who seldom
says anything clever, he replied, Il hope so,
for 1t IS all the exercise we get
DON'T KNOW WHAT REAL EXERCISE Is.
Poor old chappie. He bends over that desk
all day, he dresses himself up and lounges all
the afternoon and lie dances all the evening
The brisk walk in the country, the exhiarating
swinging on the horizontal bar the manly
bowling OF the heavy wooden ball. all these are
amusements which he does not know, but an
overheated atmosphere, orchestra to play
the music and partner to keep him company
IN the waltz or polka-this is the way the chap
pie takes his exercise
! Yet dancing must be good exercise it stands
to reason. for it brings nearly all the muscles
into play and ought also to be good for the
lungs. The only objection is that it is INDUCED
In at a late hour, when sleep would be the best
thing for one, and in a room where the atmos-
phere is not usually good. There is. too, con-
slant danger OF colds, for the dancer gets
heated and seeks relief in a draft and in the
drinking of cold water or iced punch
Inc ways OF the society man and woman are
strange Like burglars, when most people 60 to
bed they start out into the streets; like owls
they plume their feathers in the day time SO
that they may look sleek and unruffied by
night; like ''coons" and ''possums,'' they feast
and enjoy themselves when other people are
wrapt in deep slumber. The African lion
roams about the plain and jungle from dark
until dawn, ami the society lion disports him
self In pariors and ball rooms from g. 10 or IL
o'clock until midnight, l, 2, or o'clock in
the morning. 1t is a strange life indeed, and
II mas strange effects upon the people who fol-
low it.
what the masculine of a debuntante?" This
was the question that one of the chappies lust
described asked his companion after he had
received satisfactory reply to his inquiry
about dancing being good exercise.
"A darned fool - replied the other instantly
what! said chappie No. 1, 'you don't call
debutante a darned fool, do you?'
mo, of course not, said chappie No. @ 'sbut
he debutante-a fellow who comes out into
society regularly at a certain age, as girls do.
IS an ass. whom 'twere courtesy to term a
darned fool" All Of which tends to show that
cnapple NO. was not such a nonentity as he
appeared to be.
debutante is properly person withou. any
corresponding creation in the masculine sex,
LOT man becomes a society man gradually
whlie girl comes out at one fell swoop,
bursting her shell Of girlhood and appearing
young women who have been flying about in
society for some years. She gets as much at
tention, generally, the first year as she ever
gets Observation-Disclosures more and what a
remarkable thing 1t is, that, having been a little
girl up 70 the very moment before she came
out and became woman she nearly ALWAYS be-
haves herself well and carries her sudden honors
gracefully and without embarrassment If the
young brain gets little Hurried sometimes.
and the young head is carried little too high
In the air, 1t is no more than Is to be expected.
Imagine an ordinary subject in monarchy
suddenly placed upon the throne imagine a
RUSSIAN peasant suddenly made car, and YOU
have some idea of the sudden and high eleva-
ton which young girl who is beautiful at
talns after she has made her debut
DIFFERENT WITH MAN.
But with the man it is entirely different.
When he arrives at age when he may prop
erly go to the balls and parties of prowu-up
people he begins to be asked to them He Ia
very bashful and self-conscious. He makes
blunders all the time. His embarrassment is
often SO great that he sometimes doesn't 90 to a
party where he would like really to 90. He
has hard time generally. When he is at
party he receives little attention. The girls
prefer older men. 1t takes a year or two be-
fore he gets into the full swing of society and
before he enjoys it. No tea or german is given
MN when ne comes out he has no managing
mamma to maneuver so that he shall receive
all the attention possible, he is cast upon his
own resources and must make his own wav
After time he may develop into q bowling
swell and then the parlor petting that he gets
speedily turns his head for il can hardly he
questioned by anybody who has observed care
fully that the masculine society head Is lighter
than the feminine society head-that the howl
ing swell is more conceited than the belIe-that
ne has less brains and more affectations. He
Is very apt 70 become mcrcenary, to drop his
old friends, to become thoroughly unpopular
and not to care il he is SO.
SOME MORE cHAPpIE TALK
A little more chappie conversation NAV not
be amiss here. Said chappie No. l to chappie
No. 2:
.Going to the Blanks party, old MANI"
Eyes, guess SO" said chappie No. q
But thought you hated Mrs Blank"
$50 do. and abe hates ne, but don't mind
that. go to her parties an the same
Gan you reconcile that to your conscience,
chappie?" said chappie No. /.
my WHAT" said chappie No. q.
Chappie No. didn't stop to explain what
conscience is. for If a man hasn't got one he
can never understand a definition of one.
Chappie No. has, Of course a conscience. and
when the summer comes and he is not at anv
fashionable resort 1t asserts itself but in winter
during the season. 1t is pretty completely
muffled and its voice is very faint. 1t is gen.
orally SO with the man who is very ambitious
for society honors. The desire to be President
often causes public man to stoop to some ac-
ton which he would not otherwise commit. and
the desire for invitations frequently has q sim
liar influence upon the being whose whole
| nature is possessed with the desire to be a gem
uine bowling swell, and bowling swell usually
is nothing else, for there is no room
in him for anything else To sustain
| ones reputation in this particular re-
quires good deal of energy. or course,
there are instances Of great men who were