The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-11-02

sisted by money minus pedigree, is eX-
tremely irritat ng to one largely endowed
with the one and too scantily with the
other No one can forget the signs visible
of this sruh when he has once seen-or
fclt-them: the gradually chilling tone,
the cold, slightly scor tful, but well-bre,l
glance, long and steady. which in Il vulgar
person would transfer itself into Il stare;
these have gradually Il Melusa-lke effect,
and render the recipient silent AMI stony.
This is of course the snub social. which
is also effected in other ways. To see
the names of ones friends on the lists of
guests at Il party given by one whom be-
fore you had innocently SUI posed to be
your friend, Yourself uninvitcd; to have a
companion snatched from your side at a
club meeting or rece .tion to be introduc
ed to a lion and yourself left standing
forlOrn; to have these same club members
drop in repeatedly on business but forever
forget their card-cases; to have one to
whom you have been introduced time and
reception, or tea. and never know you on
the street, are other types OF the snub So
cial which she who has once experienced
them can ne -cr for re-. Tie sub social
is sometimes, rightly or wrongly, known
as the snu5 fe.nniae, from the fac. that
men do not often make use of it.
Roget's Thesaurus, always the refuge of
the amateur, gives a nlmber of syIo-
nymeS for snuh, which point to wide use
of the word
The first, ito shorten or stunt, refers
of coure to the social growth which is so
suddenly blightcd snd stunted by the
chilling frost of my ladys frown. Hin
der alludes to the hindrancc of friend
snip and that of advancement. business,
political, or social, brought about by the
sudden forgetfulneSs of a friend or a con
stituency.
TO cast "A slur on, to put out OF coun-
tenance, to take down Il peg or two, to
make one sing small and to ''tlabbergast'
phrases of about the same meaning. be-
token Il descent on the part of the snub-
ber, and hint-especially that mysterious
"flabbergast" that the art of snubbing is
not restricted to the four hundred, but is
practised in wider and less aristocratic
circles as well. The next synonyme, blus-
ter applies to the snubher when he is not
well-bred and attempts t. accomplish his
end by coarser and less diplomatic means
ITO intimidatc. to browbeat. or to ride
roughshod over refer to my lady'S stare,
and suggest the lorgnettc which when
used Skifully leaves a sting behind.
There are those who intimate that any
one who willingly and Intentionally de-
scends to Stub cannot again ascend to his
former heights; in other words if it is
possible for such one to lower him self
he is lowered.
She who nips off the end of brittle
courtesy" says DR.. Holmes, "as one breaks
the tip of an icclc, to bestow upon those
whom she ought cordially and kindly to
recognize, proclams the fact that she
comes not merely of low blood, but of bad
blood. Consciousness of unquestioned
position makes people gracious III proper
measure to all, but if woman puts on
airs with her real equals she has some
thing about herself or her family she is
of, or ought to be-"
But what of him or her who snubs?
Even if the snub is deserved, as the dict
ionarv admits that it sometimes is, is he
Or she any the better for administering it.
The insolent, the upstart, the parvenue,
will be punished at last with your inter
vention; they cannot iniure, though they
may annoy you; while upon the innocent
YOU have inflicted never healing wound.
he who contemplateS snubbing, even
5hough repeated aggravations have made
t seem justitiable will do we'll to stop
ong enough to calculate the effects both
IN the giver and on the receiver of the
Magazine.