San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-19

which is not the most attractive
out Of the market, that is out of
sight. Still there must be tina t
which is inferior, and this is where
the strawberry box gets in its dir
ty work, when 1t palms off the half
ripe and musty berries in the bot
tom of the box for the same fruit
that is on top. There are good,
better and best. Grades in every
thing. This is inevitable. To ac-
cept this is only honest, to swear
that the good is best is not neces-
sary and it is not honest. The evil
is not that all the berries are not
as good as those on the top but that
they are represented as being so.
Blessed is that man who in his
business honestly shows the grade
of the whole strawberry box.
But it Is not in the business
world that the worst evils OF the
strawberry box develop. 1t is in
the social and the domestic and
the religious world that the evil is
most marked, not forgetting a
peep into that hell on earth, the
political world. For big berries on
top and low down set OF scrubby
fruit underneath and q false bot
tom in the box, there is nothing
this side of the Styx can be
mentioned in the same day
with the political strawberry box.
From the first layer that is put in
around the table of some secret
caucus chamber, until the last big
red berry Is laid in the middle Of
the top in the convention, there is
only deception and false pretense
in the political box. This is so
notorious that no one expects any,
thing else, and honesty fees from
participation in political deal as
quaker shuns a game Of stud
poker. Beloved this box is rot
ton. Will it ever be any better?
Who may tell.
The social berry box is greatly
in evidence. Here it is that the
art Of putting the best on top is
carried to perfection, for il the big
gest berries are not red enough
then they are painted. The pre-
tension Of the full, luscious, beauty
Of the top Of the box is only fully
matched by the hollowness of the
under side and the messly character
of the fruit in the under layers.
Society is built upon the founda-
ton OF insincerity. 1t claims on
its outside, upon its upper layers,
truthfulness, purity, faith, conf
dence, uprlghtness, justice, hui
mainly, kindness, affection, benevo.
lence; turn up the box and I'M
derneath the rich ripe upper layer
you find deception, impurity,
distrust, unbelief, crookedness,
injustice, cruelty, hate, envy,
jealousy. Upon its under side you
find only hollowness and fraud,
a solemn mockery of the promise
on the beautiful upper surface.
Be not deceived thereby.
The particular deception of tn is
social case is that Of the pairing
boxes. Take couple, old or
young, it matters not perhaps the
older the worse. From the hour
that theiry9houghts set toward one
another they figure for points,
maneuvre to deceive. With a
painstaking that would win
heaven were it spent in Guilt
avting the virtues, they unblush-
ingly lay themselves out to fool
the other fellow. Every defect Of
character is carefully covered up.
Every semblance of a virtue is
brushed out and painted to look its
prettiest and then put on top
Viewed from the top that mstri-
monial berry box is a perfection.
Viewed from the bottom 1t is only
half size and awfully "swunk."
Examined from within, a careful
analysis Of its contents made, it
Ia the unparalleled deception of the
ages.
He permits no side of his real
self to come to the front that could
by any possible means make an
unfavorable impression. She ditto
His priyate debaucheries, his