The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-22
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.


"Snobisme"
A new word, this, or, at least, one
but recently looming on the linguistic
newspaper horizon.
Brought into play at the time of the
great Doucet art sale in Paris a few
weeks since.
While not a synonym of "snobbish-
ness" it still is kindred to it in mean
ing, relating to artistic, rather than
social snobbishness.
And the former is quite as rampant
as the latter.
You will find any number of people
copying after the culture of others
Quoting the same authorities, reading
the same books, pretending to like the
same music and pictures and poetry.
The artistic manner is harder, how
ever, to ape than the social.
1t is easy enough to pattern your
self on some social form and mold
yourself so closely tor ont that,
after time, you can't tell the diff
ference between the initiated and the
imitator.
You can always tell the common or
garden snob.
AT parties he, or she, possibly, will
always hold conspicuous converse
with the person they think it will be
to their social advantage to be seen
talking to.
1t is not matter of liking.
There is no object SO pitiable as the
snob.
He can rarely enjoy himself in the
channels grooved out for him by
nature.
He has to smirk and ordnance and
toady
Must laugh at Mr.. Great Mans old
moth-eaten jokes.
Endure Madam Great Lady's tales
about her operations.
Smart under the insults of Great
Man Jr
Swallow the snippy snubs Of Mad
emoiselle Great Lady.
Not one of whom he'd wipe his feet
on if not possessed of fat bank roll.
He's the most miserable object on
earth because he can't be natural.
Can't do anything he really likes. Has
to pretend and side-step and make be-
lieve and be bored to infinitude.
And don't think for moment the
snob is on the non-intellectual, non.
educated calendar.
| For one of the worst of the fifty
! seven varities is this last.
Just as ready to be time-server
| with an A. B.
To truckle to money with Masters
| degree.
To flatter and slobber with a Phi D.
| It's the breed that tells.
| But what a lot of meaningless and
chattering tommyrot is heard from
the snobisme.
How he carefully culls from other &
speech to adorn his.
Reads the critical reviews to know
what to say about the last new book
Finds out which way the winds
blowing artistically and sets his sail
accordingly.
| You will hear him rave over the
! Sistine Madonna, in instance, which
he never saw save in a Perry Print
and whose excellencies could not be
appreciated or known to him in ten
times ten thousand years-because
Madame Great Lady says she saw i,
in her last visit to Europe.
He will throw fit over Whistler
! because he thinks it's the thing tC
do. And then sneer at the work OF
some local Whistler, which in it's way
may be quite as remarkable as the
much over-rated master.
/ He will speak subtlely of Ibsen, al
! though he never saw an Ibsen play in
his life and shrug the shoulders over
! the lamentable condition of our one
night, second-company ridden burg.
! weren't they awful?" said a charm
ing lady to the writer the other day
referring to the stock company doing
penance at the Murray this summer.
mot at all awful-very good" re
piled the writer, much to the charm
ing lady's disgust.
The snobisme, too, is not without
! his streak of yellow.
| In order to Turkish up and be sure
|