Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-01-07
THE BRAINY SNOB.
Women In the Front Rank In This
Character.

| class" says Samuel McChord CrotherS
in the Atlantic Monthly, sis able to
talk of Botticelli. But she has no right
TO look down upon her husband as an
inferior creature because he supposes
that Botticelli is one of q certain kind
of pickles He may have some things
which she has not, and they may be
| fully as important"
True enough, they may be fully as
important but 1t would be hard to get
our lady who goes TO the art class to
realize this fact. This is because of
no conscious perversity on her part.
but rather because her judgments are
irretrievably based on a certain little
round of standards of her own max
ing
When she meets n person for the
first time she performs much the
same operation that merchant does
when he checks off n bill of goods.
She looks him over and decides wheth-
er he tallles up with the items on the
bill of her perfectly satisfactory and
sufficiently cultured person. and If he
does all well and good. If not, If he
pronounces bas-relief with an "s' or
thinks that Puccini is the name of
new cheese-scratch goes the pencil.
and the newcomer Is marked "hope,
less" Hopeless he may be as far as
grand opera and mural decorations are
concerned. These seem important to
the good lady of the art class, but
they are not the only important things
in the world, and this is just where
her Judgment is a bit warped. BY
dint of constant attendance upon the
art class and much examining up on
Italian opera and French drama she
has become fairly well Informed upon
these matters, but that does not war
rant her for indulGinG in sort of in
tellectual snobbiShness which is as
detestable as the stuckupishness of
the little girl whose father has just
mortgaged his house to buy an auto
mobile.
In so doing she merely betrays her
ignorance of the value and impor-
tance of the other fellows knowl-
edge, and you may rest assured that
I'm some particular branch of knowl-
edge your ignorant doll is as prof
cient as she is in the things she by
her own verdict has pronounced all i'm
portant
Saved by a Glove Button.
At one of the Mouson slate quarries
n derrick man stood on the brink Of
one of the great chasms from which
the slate rock is hosted. His duty
was to catch hold of the big hook de
pending from the end of the boom as
it swung over the bank and attach 1t
to the crate to be sent back into the
pit. Standing upon the very edge he
reached out to catch the nook which
danglcd near him. 1t was winter, and
lie wore thick buckskin gloves. The
hook slipped from him as he leaned
out. but caught into the fastening of
the glove. The swing Of the great
boom took him off his feet in an in
stant and carried him out into giddy
space, with his life depending on the
glove holding fast. His whole weight
was hung on that button. and there
was a clear 175 feet Of space between
him and the floor Of the rock below.
The moments that passed before the
boom could be swung back over the
bank seemed like hours TO him. but he
got there at last safe and sound.-Lon.
don Mail.
The Frenchman Looked Innocent.
Some time since, in n fremont street
store III Boston, Il nervous little
Frenchman brushed against n pretty
trifle of vase ware valued at about
SI4 and succeeded in getting several
score more pieces out OF it than had
gone into it's making. The foOrwalkcr
led the abashed Partisan aside and
politely explained that the broken vase
must be paid for. Monsieur fetched
handful of small silver and copper,
mostly foreign, from his pocket when
he was told the value of the trifle.
Mon Dieu," cried the Partisan, 40
francs" At this he took out his bill
book and discovered n fifty dollar ex-
press draft, which the fioorwalker in
stantly seized upon, to the unspeak-
able horror of It's owner
After deducting the value of the
vase the former handed the man his
change and dismissed him with floor
walkers blessing. The express draft
reached the bank in due time, with
four others as fraudulent, but the vol
atile little Frenchman had departed
southwark with the swallows.-Bohe-
mian Magazine.
MADE A BIG HIT.