The daily sentinel., 1908-02-04
HINTS TO THE
SOCIALLY IGNORANT

l
Again a letter comes to pickles"
to know things about society and an
other of its ways
Dear Pickles:
.Is it socially incorrect to show
any demonstration of approval when
you are attending social functions? :?
The impulse is to show surprise and
admiration, or disgust, and should l.
| MAG"
| To begin with, don't be Mag" If
you ever hope to "get in" Be Marg-
uerite or Margaret.
| Yes, it is wrong Marguerite to
show surprise or approval and never
dIsapprove, II you would get to the
| top for there are things one meets
very high up in society that one must
prepare for-by not ever disapprov-
| ing of any of the small things further
down the line.
Can you imagine a big bug at a
dinner saying: what bully soup!"
Nav va can't" or MY. but l am
wild about this piece of meat" or
"Is this watercress around this
salad?" Perish the thought! The only
demonstration is perhaps a little
handling over of the fork or spoon
and an expression that says: Il have
eaten it many times ere this, but
can do it again because 1t Is palat-
able" Sometimes one of the reals"
even eats all but two pieces of the
salad, but as rule there is half left
Half left, means that you are good
|enough to associate with the others.
three quarters left, means that you
are quite a superior person, while
merely tasting the food put before
you, means that you are a regular
three time winner and used to sail
ing on yachts
At a dinner not long since a per-
fectly good peach was served as
desert. but it had an artistic bit of
stem in it and green leaf.
The peach was ice cream and the
leaf was cloth. The new member of
the set looked fearfully at the thing
and decided not to make any DEM
onstration because of her ignorance
SO she pretended not to want the
peach.
81 don't care for peaches" she
said as she looked pleasant and smil-
ed at the one setting next to her. The
person addressed tilted her nose to
the disgust angle, and she, the dis
gusted one, while looking her scorn
showed that she was eligible to the
real set by eating hers, leaf and all.
She wasn't going to run the risk of
letting the others think she was
ignorant and she wasn't sure the leaf
was artificial. so down 1t went where
1t gave her as many pains as she took
| to eat 1t.
Oh. it is all big bluff anyway.
The woman who puts a lot of bum
lace and ribbon over an old waist
that was spotted and soiled and
makes it appear new and stylish. is
worth as much, face value, as one
who has the new one II the secrev
doesn't get out.
Plenty of wet goods and plenty OF
dry goods make the real society
Someone had the audacity to say that
Pueblo didn't have any real society
because everybody in Pueblo works
and a man who goes to work in the
morning is not real society. Should
the man have been called audacious ?
Is there cause for the city to rejoice
or to complain?
4 There is real society in every
locality and sometimes 1t is one thing
and sometimes another. 1t depends
upon the locality High society In
Podunk hangs the wash out or
Monday and steams over the ironing
board on Tuesday and cooks and
hands around ham and eggs at break
fast time. High society in Astorvillt
eats grape fruit (at fifteen per, tool
for breakfast at IL o'clock and get.
out of its superfluous clothes after {
o'clock and dons diamonds while peo
pie in black and white run about
here and there and everywhere call
ing in gentle voices. THE carriage
awaits" Tea is served, Madame
and your bath Is ready"
You hear so much more of the so
ciety women than of the social lions
When a man gets old-old enough t
know better-he usually gets out Il
is then referred to as dear old dad.
or father" or perhaps, not referre,
: to at all except on the first of eacl
month.
little stanza about what par
father plays was written by Lev
Mawkins and it's this:
Everybody works poor father
He tolls for the dough all day.
Then the Con man comes and lift
1t,
Isn't he an easy jay?
Mother raises hades,
u From early morn till dark.
Everybody works poor father.
: The good old easy mark.
,l No Margaret Cor Marguerite), ap
pear used to things even IL you hav'
, to eat what was meant for show. Th.
: pain from eating the thing is no
= nearly SO dangerous or so great "A
/ the one from appearing social,
Ignorant in the Pueb,.
/ Chieftain.
Dry cleaning. We do 1t. At price
that are right. Telephone Black 662