The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-19

That is all very well when you have an
unusual name and enjoy unusual pres
ttge, but If your name be Smith" or
Brown" and you are just plain lady and
gentleman. you may not indulge In the
newest wrinkle and must be happy in
the consciousness of dignity and good
sense.
should say TO the debutante who asked
about her cards that for the first season
her name should be engraved on her
mothers card. or on that of the person
who acts as her chaperone.
Snobbery. says the New York Tribune.
may truly be said to be rampant in New
York from the horse show 70 Ash Wednes-
day, which widely divergent occasions
nave become by common consent the ac-
knowiedged Alpha and Omega of the So
eial season, the latter being now observed
for different reasons by most denomina-
tons, and welcomed as a convenient place
to cry Haiti in the pace which would
otherwise probably kill, and certainly ex-
hauSt During little over a fourth of
the year snobbery, as has already been
said, reigns supreme, and seems to our
shame be II spoken, to be the motive pow
er of our social machinery. Americans.
however, are nothing if not adaptive; the
season of dances and dinners
once over, their effects cease
anu tHe STRIVING matrOn ana
the ambitious girl, and-for men are quite
as worldly wise and scheming as the fem
mime portion of the communicates tuft-
hunting youth and the selfish clubman,
seem TO fall naturally once more into other
and better channels of living. The striv-
ings, failures and the heart-burnings of
Vanity Fair are all forgotten-until next
season.
How hate Mrs. Apexr' exclaimed a
aafa trae " =
my entire existence this winterI'
why, you do not know her, do you?''
| queried her friend astonished at the out
burst.
mo; that is just the reason" admitted
the other. IT am not asked to one of her
| functions and it makes me disguised at
everything"
But I thought you went out so much
and had such a lovely time" persisted her
puzzled and less worldly wise companion.
"Oh, they are all second-rate," snapped
the disconnected beauty contempuously.
land I hate them because they are not
the things l want"
This kicking against the pricks of life
may sound childish but how many of US
| do 1t? How many sensible intelligent per
sons are CALLED and fretted almost beyond
| endurance In Vanity Fair by similar and
| equally puerile causes?
Il who am not of the elect and have no
! ambitions in that direction" remarked
| society girl find II very amusing to
watch the struggle that so many people
make.
1T was simply delightful the other day
| to hear Mrs. Tantalus bring into her con-
versation each smart place she had been
| to- as if it all came naturally into our
| conversation, although knew well
enough that she began on subjects that
would enable her TO bring in her trumphs,
| little imagining that 1 knew what poor
| triumphs they were, and that the invita-
| ton she had worked and struggled for
meant nothing but a bare recognition, and
did not admit her to the inner circle after
all
What pace ii is during the season.
| she began, and how impossible 1t is to
see anything of ones friends have had
a cold ever since the rs dance. You know
1t was a very small affair. and the con-
sequence was We had more dancing than
was good for us
"a minute later she managed to drag
dance No into the dialogue. This was
somewhat more difficult, and it required
| little amount of skill TO steer the talk
into the direction she wished. She began
on the new skirts. and how difficult the
long clinging garments were to manage.
! the yards and yards of ruffling that were
used to hold out gown properly, how
! awkward it was to have them trodden up-
! on. and how (here was her opportunity at
Mrs. Tiptop's bali a stupid, careless part
ner had completely wound himself up bv
| catching a stitch in his shoe button. and
| unripping the entire length The invita-
| lions she had in prospective at fine houses
were also skillfully alluded to- and, final
! w. after she had fired all her great guns
she took her leave, leaving me greatly i'm
pressed, it is true, but hardly in the way
she imagined
ut is one of the curious phases of our
! humanity that we are so powerfully
| swayed by such puerile considerat tons
| that the man whose intellect has amassed
a fortune and controlled large and power
| fun interests should deem the acquisition
| of a barely acknowledged position in So
| ciety so aI-important, or that an intelli-
| gent woman who has beautiful home
| lovely children and a devoted husband
| should devote her time and energies to
pursuing the ignis fatuus which leads her
such an undiguihed dance, and often
leaves her in the Slough of Despond. But
SO 1t is; we are followers after vain phan-
TOMS and all TOO often drop the substance
for the shadow"
The man had been absent from New
| York for a number Of years. During his
absence, says the New York Sun, many
| changes ndd taken place. some OF ms
friends had moved away and some had
died. Though he had taken the New York
papers pretty regularly, he had not kept
up with those friends of his as he should
have done Consequently, now and then
some one of them that he thought dead
and buried and forgotten came up to him
and shook him by the hand
Such shocks had the effect of giving him
! nervous prostra ton, or near.y; and they
were of such frequent occurrence that his
| health not only became undermined, bur
he ultimately arrived at the conclusion
that all his friends were yet alive
One evening he called upon a woman
friend who was living at a hotel Ar
rived at her rooms. he found her sur
rounded by crowd of people, but he fin