The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-19

than tail among lions" said a philo-
sophie dame, who was making her plans
for the summer, and who, with her
family, was considering the pros and
cons of the various watering places.
AT Newport, we should be simply sub
merged, lost out OF sight, and it would
be continual struggle, as well as great
expense, to keep respectfully in the
swim. AT Bar Harbor or LenoX, one
feels one has, at least, an identity; but
even there, there are no end of people
who are better off, and consequently
smarter, and we should be units in d
crowd. Whereas, if go to A, or B, or
c, we would be leaders in way, and
the girls would, 1 think, have an in
fnitely better time"
To B. they went, therefore, took one
Of the largest houses and established
themselves with their retinue of ser
wants, horses, etc, for the season.
There is one thing that you must re-
member, girls continued this Mich
iavellian mamma. You must not make
yourselves common. The majority OF
these people are second rate, and you
must be careful not to form intimacies
that will be inconvenient next winter
in New York. The KS. and the US.
are we'll enough, you would better keep
with them altogether"
In this way the smart set at B.
was formed, and became very exclu-
sive, indeed, while those who composed
it tasted for the first time in their
lives the sweets of supremacy.
what airs these people assume"
exclaimed transient visitor to B., one
who in her turn considered that her
social position gave her a, right to
criticise. DO you mean to tell me it
is really the AS. and the KS. that are
spoken Of with such respect? How nice
for these poor things to feel themselves
SO grand, and how hard it will be to
give up all this Importance when they
go back to town. 1t is the funniest SEN
sation to feel myself patronized by
these people whom 1 really hardly
know. Mrs. A. rustled up to me the
other day with the suavity of Ouch
ess I am delighted to see you at B.
she said as if she owned the place.
You must come and lunch with me,
and I will ask some people to meet you.
OF course, the general society here is
very mixed, but there IS a very nice
inner circle when you get to know
them-although,' she continued conf
dentially, they are not exactly the set
that you and 1 are intimate with in New
York
You seem to know Mrs. A. very
WELL said an acquaintance [ had pick
ed up at the casino, with an obvious
increase of respect. for my position. I
chuckled to myself over the humor of
the whole thing" she continued, not
taking into consideration that phi
Nj orb oil toi
amount Of humor in looking at the var
ious ramifications of the matter from g
point of view which included her also
in the comical suggestiveness of the
situation. The snobs are many.
That the more one has the more one
wants is a fact too well known to need
comment, but it is odd to contrast the
discomfort of many young people who
have so much to make them happy
with the simple content and cheerful
ness of the great army of bread-win-
ners of their own age, whose lives GER
tainly must be full of hardship and
privation.
81 had. occasion" said a lady recent
~, Ito stop at just about the opening
hour at one of those mammoth estab-
lishments which supply, apparently,
every need of human life, and the en-
ployees of which must be numbered
by hundreds l was greatly struck by
the good humor, the cheerfulness of the
vast army of wage-earners, particular
~ the little cash girls. Their ready
alacrity to do little kindnesses to each
other, their smiling faces, no matter
how delicate looking or i'll clothed,
were most winning. I did not see one
gloomy, cross-looking, unhappy child.
What a sermon for my Children ]
thought, and what a comment upon
the nobility of labor for it is only the
idle who are disconnected and COM
planning
st have two young girls of Is in my
house." said good and benevolent
woman. Zone is CHEEKY and happy
and patient, pleased with the smallest
trif1e, grateful for the least kindness,
while it is taken as a matter of course
that her entire time, from morning I'M
til night, day after day. without ceas-
ing, should be devoted to the service
of others, without expecting either
thanks or favor The other, although
born with an equally good disposition,
is uncertain in her temper, lives a self
absorbed and therefore selfish life, and
is continually complaining because she
has not as many luXuries as certain
Of her friends. One of these girls is
housemaid and the other is my niece
I often think of the contrast between
them and wonder at the unfaillng good
humor and cheerfulness of the former"
With natural perversity young peo-
pie are apt to contrast their Got with
that of the small minority of those
more favored by fortune than them
selves, rather than with those of the far
greater class who have less, or, even
nothing, who are obliged to toll for
their daily sustenance, and from whom
they might we'll take a lesson in cher
full acquiescence in circumstances.
That clever old lady Queen Victoria,
does not object to bicycling, but the
prevailing costumes Of the fair riders
she simply loathes and has confessed
to a positive horror Of the rational
dress" which she has seen worn about
Windsor.
Her horror is justiiable, for in so far
as woman's bicycling dress approaches
the masculine it is detestable. Among
so-called smart" women it has been
decided that the most attractive cos
tune includes the well-cut skirt of mod
est length, the trinity belted Norfolk
Jacket and the laced boots that so
charnlingly clothe a slender foot and
ankle.
There are rumors from Paris that the
Greek waist is coming, that the fash
ionable dressmakers are giving their
customers to understand that their
ideals are changing, and that there is to
be no more tight lacing. This, If true,
must mean that there are to be not
able changes also in the cut and fash
ioning of gowns.
During the past winter and spring
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