Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-26
AT LAST.

hand when these names will no longer ar
ply, and when those who try to appl
them will thereby convict themselves O
ignorance and stupidity. The surest sigl
that New Haven is about to burst what
ever bonds have held it and take the ranl
to which 1t has been for some time full,
entitled is the feet that Society Gntelligen
compositor and lynx eyed proof reader
large s, please) Is being rapidly formed
here. Do not misunderstood us, gentl,
reader. Society has always existed in New
Haven. There has baya. large anG
healthy society here of people who have
had 10 work hard for their bread and
butter, but who could not pay
much attention to pink teas" because
they had to be scratching around go as tc
be able to get a little black or green tea to
| cheer themselves with. And there have
been some ''sets" of people here who want
| ed to have il understood that they were
not exactly like the main, hard working,
| good-natured common society of New Ha-
| ven. The "town- born" have stuck together
pretty we'll, and as one after another has
had to go under ground, where all "sets"
| and all society finally end, they have made
the most of what was left. Then there has
been 'set" distinguished for it's learning,
and for that nobility of soul and general
superiority which always go with deep
and true culture. And we have the
Historical Society. But there has been no
Society in New Haven, don't you knowl
No body of men and women separate in all
but living, eating, drinking, suffering,
sickness, desth and taxes from their fellow
beings. No body of men and women
whose natural, inherited or acquired su-
periority, clothes and manners would
make 1t plain, even to q near sighted per-
son, that they were really Society.
We are more than pleased to announce
that what has been New Haven's chief and
most conspicuous defect is to be remedied.
Indeed, it IS fast being remedied. By
process of natural and artificial selection
Society is being fast formed here. 1t is an
interesting process and can be watched
by philosopher with much the
same interest the naturalist feels in
watching the bursting Of the beau
tiful butterfly from the common,
dirty chryss'is. OF course the process has
it's paina. 1t cau]d net fairly be expected
that the birth Of Society ia New Haven
would be painless. There are ambitions
which cannot be satisfied. Everybody
can't belong to Society and there are some
who think they ought to who must, in the
interest of Society, be kept out. There are
riva!ries among those who are among the
chosen. They are human and they find
that even admission to Society is not ex-
actly like admission to Heaven. Families
are divided. In some cases it has been
found necessary to exclude the husband
from Society, while the wife is admitted,
and in the others the wife is left out. Such
things as these have to be done, don't you
know, If Society is to be Society.
But We are coming out all right, and it
will not do to take near views. Society
will soon be fully established in New
Haven, and nothing that has ever hap
pened to the place has been SO good for it
as this will be. The common people, who
are, as it were, only the baeis on which
Society rests, and who really exist for the
benefit of Society, will have something to
look up to. They can have an oppor-
tunity to see what culture, learning,
money, moral superiority and careful
attention to clothes and manners can do,
They will have something to worship, and
bow down to. Ard a few of them, who
get the idea early enough in life, may have
their lives sweetened and their toll cheered
by All honorable ambition for their chil-
dreD, or their children's children, if not for
themselves. Such can look back and see
where Society started from. They can
look forward aud hope. The hod carrier,
as he laboriously struggles up the long
ladder, can, if he will, think OF every
step that, If things go right, by and by
some of his descendants may be able to
enter Society. Hod-carriers' children have
done it. Even the street-cleaner may have
his disagreesble toll frightened by this
sweet hope and charming possibility. We
do not want to dangle any will O. the wisp
before anybody, but when we see what
has been done we feel warranted in reas-
onably encouraging lofty and honorable
ambition.
Let US all welcome the birth of Society
in New Haven, and rejoice in its growth.
1t doesn't need any support. 1t can and
will support itself. But we can and must
admire it and worship it. 1t will do great
things for the city and make it much bet
ter place to live in. 1t may also have an
important influence on the future of many.
1t has always bsen supposed that the
guardian of "the pesrly gates" was in
clined to look with special favor upon ap-
plicants for admission to the joys of Para
disc who were able to announce themselves
as from New Haven. Will he not be still
more kind when an applicant is able to say
that he is member of New Haven Society
or knows somebody who is7
And as for Hartford and Bridgeport they
are not in it, don't you know, catch the
| point, don't you see'