The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-19

tations because OF some peculiar reputation
acquired in the serious walks of life, hutthsse
men are unusual. The two lines are usually
entirely distinct from one another. Would
you, IL you had an important lawsuit, EN-
ploy az your attorney lawyer who had a
great reputation as a society man because
of that reputation Hardly. Then, IL you
were giving ball or dinner party why
should you invite man to 10 because OF his
reputation as a lawyerl The lawyer has
his place in the world and the society man
has bis, aud it is probable that the lawyer
gets less abuse from the society man be-
cause of his success than the society man
gets from the lawyer.
But il may be put on another ground, too,
because the man who is not good Is often
successful in getting invitations where a
good man fails. OF course notoriously and
positively bad man must be excluded from
invitations. 1t is not pleasant to have him
around. He might steal or murder or even
do worse but repectably bad man, IL the
expression may be used, is not barred from
invitations at all. The world Of the ball
room does not set itself up as tribunal to
judge candidates for admission upon moral
grounds, and here again there is
some reason IN the position IL takes when
the people who choose a deacon in the
church insist that they must have good
man; that is natural, but if they should in
sist upon having society man also that
would be goingout Of their province. Sim
ilsrly society has no business to insist that
man should be good before Ii will extend
him invitations.
WHAT A MAN MUST BE.
Then what on earth Ia the mystery which
gets man invitationsi 1t is not goodness
it is not brains or success, or even
money. Money, it must be re-
marked, psrenthetically. has good
deal to do with 1t, and especially Ia house
holds, but ID il not everything in the case Of
a single man, especially where 1t is not SO
much as to make a man one ia a million
The mystery is simple enough-a man to be
much invited must be swell, nothing more
nor less. IL he doei not know how TO he a
swell then he stands small chance of max
ing himself thoroughly acceptable TO the So
cietY that spells It's name with a capital s
and owns the earth, according to its own
idea.
But how can a man be a swelll Will a
fine tailor and many clothes of the latest
cut make a man a swell2 Not at all. There
are some of the biggest swells in the coun-
try who are decidedly carelessly dressed
Nevertheless a swell ought TO be we'll
dressed-not to say particularly we'll
dressed. Is it necessary for a man TO have
a valet TO be a swell? If 10 were there
would be very few swells in America, for
there are few men who keep Wallets
Still. a valet does undoubtedly add to
the sweetness of SWELL Must man be O
loafer and live off of his income to be a
swell? There are nine swells that work for
a living to one that does not, and yet 1t is a
thing that adds TO a swell to have nothing
to do but to perfect his style. Must man
have a horse and cart to be swelll .. no.
More swells go on foot than drive, although
a swell who has horses has the advantage
over swells who have not. The subject Of
how to be q swell Is too vast for the present
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