The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-05-06
80 81 socIErY.


The Ideal Standard which All Desire co
There is one universal nbition among
people of every social grade, and each
has its standards that represent this
ambition Each social grade has its
conception Of what II is TO be q lady or
gentleman Every locality seems to
have It's own ideal OF what is permissi-
bic and what is not There is a town
in Texas, a community made up Of peo-
pie who have euigrated from the north,
and who worked years before they be
gan to entertain A wealthy New
Yorker and his wife went down to visit
a relative, one of these settlers who de
cided to give the visitors a dinner The
New Yorker was very genial and com
pluionahie5 and his wife very afEable.
The Texans who had their own stand
ards OF conveutiouality, felt somewhat
uneasy lest these did not reach the
standards of the people who represent
ed to them the highest social opportu-
mites The rich man was troubled
with dyspepsia, and his wife kept
close watch on him at the table. Ice
cream was served with the dinner, and
the wife protested to him under her
breath against his eating it. When she
found he could not be convinced, she
said: ''Well, if you VIII have it. do put
some brandy on it; that may save YOU
from illness" The rich man did pour
brandy over his ice-crcam, and whom
about to apologize he glanced about
the table to see people on each side
OF the table deluging their ice-cream
with brandy! This calls TO mind an in
cident in q country town in New En-
gland, One OF the young merchants of
the place, who was considered a most
desirable parti, and who had been the
recipient OF many courtesies from the
heads of families where there We're
daughters, chose "a bride from large
city After his engagement was an
nOunced the social prominence of his
bride in the city in which she lived was
constantly referred to by his family,
until the curiosity of these simple viii
layers was aroused to the highest pitch,
and they really would not have been
surprised had the bride appeared with
one OF the much-tallzed-of crowns on
her head and wearing a court mantle
She proved to be an atfable girl with
out any of the characteristics that
would indicate familiarity with the
-four hundred beg pardon with the
lone hundred and hftyl" Shortly after
her appearance as "a bride there was a
public dinner given to celebrate his
JorLcal event connected with the his
tory of the nation, and the young mer-
chant and his bride were among the
O.
ton to the simple people to whom a
roast and a dessert represented all-sufli-
cheney IN that direction. When the cups
OF bouillon were placed by the imported
walters in front OF the guests, the
young bride, on whom many eyes We're
turned for direction and guidance,
calmly leaned forward, picked up the
sugar-tongs and dropped two humps in
to her cup, asked for the cream, which
the well trained waiter Immediately
brought her, and a liberal quantity of
the fluid went into her cup. Her nus
band closely followed her example.
They stirred the sugar and cream vigor-
ously into the bouillou, and then took
a liberal mOuthfuI of the mixture.
Shades of their ancestors! what exc
Pressions passed over their facesl The
husband looked at her with a perfectly
helpless expression as ne swallowed the
dose which she could not swallow, but
used her napkin to dispose of, asking,
in an agOnized tone OF voice; 'What
was that?'' while she responded: 81
dent know; / thought il was tear
When one looked al the elaborate white
satin dress, with its fall of expensive
lace, and all the other accessories of q
toilette that represented expenditure
of money, the question of just what
kind OF civilization that woman repre-,
sented was raised in the observer
mind--Christian Union.