Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-24
LIVING ON YOUR WITS

Occupation Which Is Said To Be Be-
 coming More and More Popular.
 Living on your wits in New York is daily becoming more and more pro- fessional study. There are many in- dividuals floating about that town, of gentle birth, fine education and excel lent manners, who are unable to earn an ordinary living, either because they were not taught how, or because their ancestral supply of inherited wealth has run dry. Work they cannot do, and even if they were willing it is not likely they could render any employer services satisfactory enough to pay them salary on which they might continue living as gentlemen. Be ginning at the bottom of the ladder on a $10-per-week clerkship proposi- tion is, of course, absurd, after man has passed the twenty-fifth milestone one the highway of life
 Hence their is no other choice for them than putting their inventiveness to work, and somehow or other manage to continue to move in The set where they belong, or at least give out the impression that they are still within the sacred portals Two new ways of grafting on society have just come to light. The first grafter is known as the "tally-ho terror.'' His method of procedure consists of ingratiating himself into the confidence of some of the wealthy club members and talking the pleasures of tally-hoing to them with sufficient repitition to make them interested, says the New York core spondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. When a coaching trip finally has been decided upon, with MT Smooth as the host presumptiye, he makes all the pre- parations. The sWeIIest turnout, the finest horses and the best-liveried groom are in front of the club at the hour of the start En tour then stop at every road house, and the identity of the well known members of the party is such that the landlord offers no objections when he is told by the high muck-a-muck to ssend him the bill.' On their return home the party is profuse in thanks for the splendid time to the supposed host.
 About week later the "tally-ho ter ror'' calls on every member of the par, ty, presenting him with a bill ranging from $50 to $100 as his share of the expense of the trip. Called upon for an explanation, he says, Sm1l1ngly, with an air of tired superiority, that he naturally supposed they all under stood that it was 3 commonwealth plan" affair, everybody to share alike, etc. Very sorry, but-well, he gets the money, and there you are. The other game Is worked by inference and wltll camera. It thrives best in Newport. You are alone, and you stroll about in the casino of that resort, and you want to get into the inner circles, but don't know anybody. What to do2 Watch for grouping of celebrated ladies and gentlemen who are being photographed, and as the mansis about to press the button quietly saunter up and get in the picture, even if it is on the edge. By repeating this process a dozen times or more, and showing pictures of your- self in ten orptwelye different groups of real people, il. will not be hard to
 make ordinary people believe that you are one of the select, will it? And, 1T you are, will hot your credit increase in proportion? One man last summer is said to have made such success Of this plan that he is now on the top rung of a brilliant social career, with no prospect of falling of. Newark Sunday Call.