Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-07

NEW YORK, June 1.-The other night
went to see play, in which were in
troduced two people, who arc very ia
miliar to anybody who goes much into
general society. They were husband
and wife, and belong to that innumer-
able class who pose for Appearances
Who will live on tea and toast that
fine gown may be possessed, vino refuse
to pay their servants that they may go
to Lady Plush's reception in carriage,
who push and strive in every direction
to retain a so.called position in society,
while they believed that the world is
deceived The world, my friend, is
funny one, u frivolous one, but the
world is by no means fool. 1t knows
these people as well as you or do; 1t
reads them like a book, and in time it
discovers all their petty, miserable de-
vices and laughs at them, although in
the laugh there is sort of scornful APP
proval. 1t is the approval which the
world always gives to what is called
making the best of anything; because,
the people who make the best of any
thing don't make the world suffer any,
inasmuch as it only sees the agreeable
aide.
TRADEsMEN's TOOLS IN SOCIETY.
The world will laugh at the Poor-but-
Prouds who gain percentage from the
tradespeople by taking their friends TO
them, who get cheap rates from the
hotel keepers by recommending their
house, who are always being para
graphed in the paper, because, in some
way or other, they can do favor, or
get an invitation for the society writer.
l meet Mrs. Poor-but-Proud, and she
gushes over me, and asks me where |
am going. She is Immediately dressed,
and when tell her that | am looking
for bonnet, she insists Oh taking me
tirst to her milllner. | am not over
pleased with the bonnets, but the MILL.
ner tiatters me, and SO does my kindly
friend, and the end of the story Is that
l buy bonnet that do not want, and
realize, later in the day, that off my
purchase Mrs. Poor but-Proud has
gained 10 per cent, have been made
fool of, and am the unhappy possessor
of an unbecoming hat.
Going down the street bow to some.
body. My companion asks me who it
is; | tell her, and later in the day, if she
happens to meet that same woman, she
introduces herself, using my name, and
manages, if possible, to draw this gentle
gudgeon into one of her nets, and gain
from her just what she may desire.
When the dark days come she manages
to get little money, as does the woman
in the play, by writing fashion article
and introducing the names Of the swell
dressmakers and milliners, or she and
her husband retreat into all unfashion-
able neighborhood, while they have 1t
announced that they have gone to
Switzerland for the summer.
WHAT A LIFE 1T MUST BE?
Pretense, pretense, pretense from the
very beginning to the end. The hus-
band offers a rich man cigar and tells
him the name of the brand, advising
him TO buy them and use his name,
The same little game goes on with some
champagne, some brandy, the mans
clothes, and even if he is invited to play
game Of cards he can tell who manu-.
features the best pack of cards, or stack
OF chips, and advises his host to get
some from there, or let him send him
some as u sample. You think there are
not many people like that? ASK any
fashionable milliner or dressmaker
ANI' WY lhay NV Iell you VINO
they are, but If you so out much, or
watch the newspapers closely, you will
have no trouble IN discovering them.
HOW CAN THESE PEOPLE DE HAPPY?
And are they? After all, sometimes l
wonder if they are much better than the
poor wretch who is sent to the peniten.
tiary for stealing few dollars. As the
years go on and the Poor Prouds are
discovered, and the gudgeons they try
TO catch grow fewer and fewer, they
lose their good-tempered ways and too
often drift into writing malicious para
graphs for low sheets, or, reaching the
last stage in a career such as theirs,
practice the frightful art of blackmail,
You can 60 into the most fashionable
restaurant in New York any night, and
sitting at one of the tables you will see
man who has gone through all the
stages of his career and
REACHED THE BLACKMAIL PERIOD,
Fortunately he has never married,
Perhaps this is what makes him all the
more willing to be brutal to woman.
Men abhor MIN, and yet there are men
who are afraid of him. He is the asso.
ciate of the lowest sort OF men and
women, from whom he learns much;
and vel he manages to dress well, and
be seen in some good houses, because he
is connected with two, or three good
families. lie hears the story OF the mis-.
take some girl has made, and the folly
some boy has committed. lie comes
down on them, and they, being toe
young to hand the case, as it should be
over to the police, pay him little some
thing, as much as they can scrape to-
gether, and from that time on he owns
them body and SOUL He is pleasant in
his manners; he is agreeable to looh
uponi he is always well dressed, and vel
don't believe there is anything too bat
in the shape of hereafter for that man
de has ruined more men and women
he has made more miserable lives thar
are ever dreamed of; and, worse than al
THIS, he has made these very people LOSE
their belief in everything, for they SC,
him going along apparently happy, ap
parently having good time, and We
living life that is too frightful almos
10 believe. And yet it is true.
THE MAN WHO WORKS UP SCANDALS.
| wonder how long it is going to last
am one of the people who believe tina
retribution certainly comes, not onl,
here, but hereafter, and that we SUITE
in this world for what we do, as well a
in the nextg wonder what he think
about when he is alone? l wonder /
lie likes to be alone? / should not i'm
agine that he would, or that he would
ike to stop and think about the lives h.
has ruined, or the sort Of fellow he ha
made of himself. He was probably no
bad to begin with, and the chances arr
hat he became what he is simply from
The desire to dress, to drive, to 90 and Il
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