Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-26
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E'Bostons Herald

4 INTO d-COnslOmeFat6 E1aSSftn6 Vitak organs
Iof the body, while the Chinese bandages
and cramps are only guilty OF inducing a
Physical toddle through life. But-the men
j tai and-spiritualt oddle the conceit OF Our
Set imparts to it's practitioners implies
| an unspeakably more deplorable malfor-
| nation
This brusque ejaculation on the part of
| a professor, who made one of q group of
half dozen men and women talking to-
| gether the other evening on the porch of
| a seaside boarding house. was called out
| by the sighting remark launched by a
lady of the group at q fellow boarder,
| in reality a very excellent ana intelligent
young woman: ''Oh. she does not belong
TO our set"' Forthwith the offending fling
wrought on the professor-who, by the
way. was suspected of tender feeling for
Fthe rejected young woman-like the tradi-
| tional red flag on a bull, inducing a vio-
| lent below. an instantaneous lowering OF
head ana horns and so furious a charge
| that for moment the astounded lady
fairly recoiled before it.
| Soon, however she bristled up in def
| anee, and. as she was a very tight little
body, conscientiously narrow-minded and
bigoted, socially and religiously. stood
Nsomanfully to her guns Yes. mean
just what 1 say" she began. Il don't
want to associate with people who don't
belong to our set. have my own pro-
nounced views, never TO be altered, on
manners, Dress social distinctions. the
persons / wish TO recognize, the proper
| church connections | desire to cherish,
! and do not wish TO come III contact with
| those who entertain different views, and
| who, for all 1 know, may speak depreciat-
ingly even of bishops and of our holy
| liturgy. 1t is necessary TO keep the breed
pure and the only way TO do it IS to
carefully avoid association with such as
! have not enjoyed the superior social and
religious privileges we We're born into.
| Would you not take the same stand. pro-
| fessor, If you owned a Gordon setter or
| a blooded horse? Would you permit any
mongrels around the kennel or stable?
| From this last fling, it was evident that
| bad blood was up on either side, and that,
as the professors department was natural
| history and biology the irate lady was
| clearly determined to carry the war
| straight into Africa. Her views on the
| origin of species-animal. social or ecole-
| siastical-were as clear cut as all her
other views Species were outright. orig
! inal creations, ordained never to commin-
gle Darwin she regarded as a hereto
of the blacklist dye. The omnpotent ana
| omniscient Creator had from the founda-
ton made her set" Just what IL was, and
had pronounced it d distinct species that
was to persist lin saecuIa saeculorum,"
! never mongrel school teacher or grocer
Unitarian being suffered to cross the
| breed.
BY this time It began TO look as though
fierce battle We're on, had not a very
mild-mannered clergyman-not, however,
without q trace Of irony In his makeup
| interposed. You must admit, professor"
he began that people naturally divide
into groups, in accordance with their es-
peciaI ideas and tastes The young who
like to dance and frisk form one set; those
who like to sail sail; those who like to
gossip seek the company Of such as have
rich repertory Of gossip and those who
are fond of ceremonial religion. the soS>a
ETY. of such as are equally addicted with
themselves to candles as lights TO the feet
and lamps to the path. You surely would
not object TO anyone, Ike myself, who
gets seasick even IN rocking chair. re-
plying to an invitation from a set OF lusty
fellows just off for a sail on a tossing,
white cap day. 'Thankee. gentlemen. 1
don't belong to your set"
Here the lady whose fling had kindled
the original fire bridled up and was over
heard to calculate, Gossip. candles, sea-
sicl1ness?'e
THAT depends entirely" replied the pro-
I fessor, "on how modest or cocklofty the
spirit in which you gave the answer. IL
because you happen to have a queezy
stomach you should make gastric idol
of its queeziness which all others are
bound to burn incense before, and should
pronounce YOU set-that is. the set who
cannot keep a meal Of victuals where It
| ought to be-beings Of infinitely more
! etherealized sensibilites than the coarse
and brutalized creatures who are good
| for a stout hunk of cheese and big slice
! Of salt pork, though the waves are storm
| ing the weIl1in, why, then, | should feel
| you We're presumins entirely too much
| upon the peristaltic idiosyncTasies of your
| own elect stomach and bile. I've seen just
| such fellows on an ocean steamer"
Sets are all we'll enough" went on the
| professor, so long as they simply pro-
mote good fellowship and do not degener-
! ate into breeding places of bigotry. ar
| rogance conceit and narrow mindedness.
| But too often they are as bad as tho
castles In India. which destroy all sense
| of common humanity. a man that would
sooner die than eat morsel OF another
mans food had better die, for the broad,
prfrnal human nature in him is already
dead. But il is worse vet with the man
| who refuses to partake with relish Of a
m0rsel Of another's creed or politics or
| social status, or IS too queezy 20 keep on
| his stomach any diet of ideas that differ
! from his own. / never in my life was in
| a summer boarding house where / did not
! see great deal Of downright brutality
praeticed on modest, kindly. excellent
people-especially on young women by
other young women"
At this point the irate lady, doubly in
| censed at what she considered a degrad-
ing comparison Of her views with heather
Bengal caste superstitions. seasIckness
and salt pork, drew of in "A hu1
Neither was l." responded the clergy
man. II took a hand IN this talk simply
because l was afraid a rumpus was brew
ing, but now that the high pricstess of
| Our Set has fobled her tents Ike the
Arabs, I would say pIumply that am
one with you on every point 7 came to
! this place for refreshments simply because.