Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-08-26
PIAZZA TALKS.
Three Cougenial Spirits Discuss the I'm
gentle Art OF Snubbing.

gentle Art of Snubbing.
my dear" said the Dear Old Lady to
the Bright Girl, II noticed two young
sslrls, newcomt rs. who went down TO tnc
soii grodna,' tbs m'rEihs' VINO ''
they - =.
ii don't now. aunty; no one seems TO
know They look rather nice,
.What did they dor asked the Clever
toward the corner of the piazza where
the Dear Old Lady sat in state.
They sat a while and looked on. anc
then went away, answered the brigh'
Interesting record. My question meant
What did you do with them?'
'oh. nothing at all In fact said i'd IL LIE
Bright girl. who is nothing II not FRANK
II think We snubbed them.
MAY | ask why?'
you may ask. but can't give reason
were outsiders. we knew nothing. about
them and thought nothing about them =
80 YOU treated them as If you knew
all about them. and the all was totally
bad. You girls are worse than the law
which treats person as innocent until
he's found guilty.
Now Mrs. Brownsmith. you're snub-
bing me-
"Oh. no: I'm not doing anything nearly
so ill bred as that. But I'm threatening
to lecture you, which is almost equalIy
You lecture her, Mrs. Silvercrown. II II
can be proved that she really snubbed
the poor little strangers. .
1T was very unchriStian. my dear, ii
YOU did" said ,-e Dear Old Lady.
No. aunty. | don't want your lecture
II isn't severe enough. and | know 1t all
Hy nSa' hS m oanded MTs IF y"u give
me Il sharp talk on snubbins, for | don I
really mean to snub any one. But people
do il, you know and it $ contagious a
like to have your ideas on that subject.
VERY we'll Zen: we'll divide the lee
int SprOnilE
an old fashioned sermon. And first we ii
take the high ground that snubbing Is
unchrstian and unchartabe. and II
leave that branch of the subject to your
aunt and pass on at once to secondly.
which is-that snu5binS is Vulgar
"Eut wait: ca YOU make a distinction
and say unnecessary snuhbing? Surely
IL, : an ..bsoIuIe necessity at times.
The snub which is necessary. my
dearly beloved. is SO rare that We can ai-
ford to leave it out of the question 1t
is true that intrusive persons have To be
slightly -weil-,!isc0uraged. but It can
easily come short of actual snubbinS
il; enough to say. Let courtesy be the
first rule-everywhere and with every
onc-and tue rest Will take care or itself
The snub is the ha!mark Of the snob
If to protect your social standing you are
obliged to use 50 ContemptIuie shield
the said social standing is itself con-
tcmptib.c
Dear ne. You can lecture" said the
Dear Old Lady. smiling.
II hope so, when the subject is one
that so nearly concerns the difference be
tween true breeding and fa.se pretcn-
sions. If is true that people do II. as
you said, let us not go over to the vulgar
majority. bat SHOW our quality by our
unfailiu. courtesy. If we have any quail
ity it can endure unharmed any sort OF
temporary contact. and can only be in
jured from w.thin-by arrogance and
sham.
The Dear old Lady nodded her head
approVingly. That's an excellent lee
ture. she said. I've gone through life
without, snubhins reop!c. unless they first
world ever thought less of me for treat
ing folks as if they We're human beings.
But you don't mean to say. Auniy,
claimed the Bright Girl
''Oh, dear me, yes" said the Dear Old
Lady. You know, you meet some people
For fear you'u think their not
'swclls. put in the Bright Girl:
Washington if it didn't bring credentials
from the Sons Of the Revolution" Sale
the Clever Woman. And that brings me
to my thirdly: That snubbing is bad pol
icy. Its a fearful risk. in fact, il you
don't know whom you are trying To put
to death socially. | knew woman at
a summer resort-a woman whose social
reputation was based solely upon her
practice of the ungentle art of snubbinS
She was approached by a modest LOOKING,
girl with some simple request. anG
afterward the girl naturally acknow
lodged the semi-ac"uaintace with a pass
ing bow. The woman looked up and down
ami everywhere to avoid these Saluta-
tons. as if to say: Really. YOU are pre-
Stunning upon very slight ground of aC-
quaintance. The girl took the hint and
avoided her. Afterward this amiabe
woman discovered She had snub5cd one
of the lions of the season. one day tn"
girl was presented to the rash snubber
with the question. Have you met Mrs
blank? The girl kept her right hand at
her side, bowed coldly, and remarked: i
have not that pleasure in a ton" which
sufficiently indicated a refusal 10 accept
that pleasure. Then she turned away and
it vas Mrs Blank, $ turn to look in vain
for passing nod.
'Nerv coed" said the Bright Girl 'I
see Nnu believe in renTisas. however,
Socially. yes: roprisals are inevitable
1t all amounts to this, that the woman
sure of her own position snubs no one but
the Snuhher.
'rharks 4or the lecture, III 90 ut once
and overwhelm tn" two strange girls
with g"lfsticks ana candy and-ycs. Tlt
introduce them to our Only Man.-Ncu