Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
THE USEFULNESS OF SNoBS
GREAT MEN NEED THEM TO
PILE ON PRAISE.
They Are the Barometer of Success.
They Don't Come Around
Loser

From the London Penny Pictorial
There are all kinds OF snobs. There il
the snob who will snob around a titled
person. There is the snob who will snoE
around person OF wealth. There Is the
snob who will snob around a great artist
or a distinguished man of action.
1t must not be thought that snobs are
always people who have a false sense of
values. If you are a stout tenor who can
shout out a top c in the opera in Covent
Garden, you will find people who will be
extremely deferential to you because of
savages in distant parts of the earth. you
your eye If you are poet you will find
people who are only too delighted for
you to be rude to them.
The snob lives on snubs. snub quick
ems and livens up a snob. For snub
proves to him that you are really what he
thinks you area high and mighty on
the-top kind of person. You must never
by any chance make the mistake of treat.
ing the snOb as a person on an equal
footing with yourself. If you do, you
are lost. You will topple from your ped
estal.
Distant, careless notice. tempered with
snubs is the food on which ne thrives
when you are accepting his homage. l
don't mean that you must be rude to him
i'm a barbarous way. Be rude TO him In
q polite way. However, ii is better to be
rude at all. Still, l would recommend
polite rudeness. And ii your early train
ing has been such that polite rudeness is
not I'm your armOry, L would strongly au-
wise. you to go and take lessons In the
art from a peer who has inherited his
know
enough to come i'm out of the wet when 1t
rains, but you will find him a past mas
ter in the art of polite rudeness.
People Who Like Snobs.
Let no one think that the snob is not a
useful person Let no one think that the
great and the successful could do without
him. But for the snob, the great and the
successful person would perish from the
face of the earth For the great and the
successful thrive on tho mamma of praise
and Difference even as the snob thrives
upon snubs. A great man will sometimes
tell YOU how awful IL is to have to listen
TO praise. He will tell you how tired II
makes him. He will dilate upon the hne
time that a mere nobody has when COM
pared with the time that he. great and
we'll known man. has. He Will sigh Tor
the old days when people did not know
of his greatness. He will tell you this, but
INV advice to you is to listen sympathet-
lcaIIy to his statement and at the same
time to accept it with inward reserve. For
the great and distinguished person is but
talking through his hat.
one of the uses that snob serves is
that of a barometer. He is the register OF
YOUR success-you, the distinguished per-
son. When he comes around, you will
know that you have scored a bulls-eye. He
will never by any accident come round IL
YOU miss the target. So, when you see
him. brace up and gratefully wipe your
boots upon him. For his advent upon the
scene means that you have won in the
struggle.
A snob is a distinterested person.
Shovelfuls of Admiration.
For the snob does not want TO be
great himself He has no desire to wrest
the tiara from your distinguished brow.
lie does not even wish to bask I'm your
smiles. All that he wishes is to be near
you. lie is well rewarded If you throw
him a bone-I mean a look now and then.
And for this LOOK he will reward you
with shovelfuls of admiration. You say