Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-07
DUDES AND TRAMPS.
Sam Jonoo Considers Thcir Char
 actors Closely Identified.
He Styles One wart on the Nose or so- cIety, the Other Corn on Its Tocs-Iiow to Get Rid
 of Them.
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begging used to be calamity. It is now becoming that one is an honor and the other a profession. For the last few years l have been greatly inter ested in the two classes, the dude and the tramp To the common eye tue farthest apart of all classes, but to me closest together. In appearance they differ widely, in character they come close together.
 The dude is socictys idler, his whole mind and life is absorbed in dress. He lounges in the easy chairs of the social clubs, ornaments the par Tor and the ballroom, and lives off his kin. By society he is considered a re- spected idlcr and decent drunlsard and higli-toned debauchee and respectable gambler. He dresses in the latest style, drinks only at the club and takes the finest drinks. He gambles on the most respectable plans, and pnrsues his lecheroas life is what some call the tony places His highest ambition is to have good time.
 As see his real character, though he walks in the highest circles of society, he is low, vicious character. He de- rrands his bread and clothing by his sonship in the home, He begs his money on the same ground. and with his money and his clothing he buys his high position in an empty and goddess society. His real character is that of loathsome sronger and sinful idler and criminal gambler and debauchee. He is the white sepulcher, beautiful with out, but within full of rottenness and dead men sbones.
 a The tramp like the dude is man of leisure and an illcr by choice. He bcgs at the homes of society as the dude begs at his own home. The one stands at the door, the other sits in the arm chair in the family room. The tramp bcgs his clothing from the homes of so- ciety like the dude bcgs his clothing from his own home, the one taking what is given without selection, the other demanding right to make the most fastidious choices.
 The tramp spends his leisure hours with the idlcrs of the slums or rcclines in the sunshine by the roadside, the dude spends his leisure with the idlers of society and lounging in the velvet CudlTS OI Juc CluD TOOIHS. HC' tIdulp shoots craps, the dude plays progress sive euchrc. The tramp drinks the old red liquor, the dude drinks fine wines. The tramp breaks the Sabbath by loung ing with his vile companions in some city slum, or playing craps with group of his kind by the roadside; the dude breaks the Sabbath by buggy driving with the thoughtless and wicked, or lounging with his kind in the club rooms. The tramp has the odor of the slums, the dude the odor of the richest perfume. The tramp and the dude meet together on the plain of the idler, the beggar, the drunkard and the gam bier. --
 The dude is wart on the nose of so- ciety, the tramp is corn on its toes. While the dude and the tramp in my mind run. so close together in the above, there are things in which they are widely different The tramp is friendless in all circles, the dude is toasted as socicty's favorite The dude is given palm as societys finest pro- gressive euchre player, the tramp is given thirty days as the slums gam bier. The dude as he lolls in the club room and parlor is toasted as society's honored gentleman of leisure, and the tramp as he rests. upon the dry goods box and the cold cdrbing of the streets is arrested for vagrancy. The dude is welcome in every parlor the tramp is driven from every door. The dude is regarded as society's highest specimen, the tramp as the lowest stratum.
 How shall we get rid of the dude and the tramp. these useless suckers on our body? The dude question might be easily settled. The tramp question is more difficult one. If every father and mother, however rich they may be, would take the reins in their own hands, as God has commanded, and see to it, first of all, that their boy gets a 6rst-class qualification for some busi- ness of life, and then see to it that he enters that position and earns his own bread, there would be fewer skeletons in the closets of the palaces.
 Our rich homes that have prospered in business have kept their money from the great benevolences of the world and have bought through ticket to hell for the boys, by society's air line with par Tor and buffet cars attached. The men who have charge of the great businesses of this world to-day are the men who were raised to work The men who have charge of the prison cells and the stripes are the men who were raised to idleness. Honest sweat is the medicine that will cure society of the social excrescences called the dude. This honest toil must be provided, while the parents of our boys and society must be revolutionized on the question of the honorableness of honest toll and the utter disgrace of idleness.
 \ As for the tramp, every community 4 ahould have n wOrlxhouse with conn