El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-27
Little BObbie and His Pa
Article In the Paper Gets Started on
the -Four Hundred and Society
in General.
BY William z. kirk

IT. HIS is a awful interesting arukel
in the paper today sed Ma TO
Pa last mite. It was wrote BY a
man MANNED Martin, & it tells about
the danger Of beeing a soshial blum
der-er. He says that the newly rich
is a menace to the 400
Is that a fack. sed Pa. dident
know that anything cud be a menace
10 the 400, Pa sed, bekaus I always
thought folks had to know something
beefoar thay beecaim alarmed at any
thing. What else does Mister Martin
say?
He says that a reel member OF so
ciety, IN giving a dinner is awful
careful to have all the peepul that she
invites be congeenyul to each other.
He says that thare is nothing 50 dis
tressing to society as a mixed crowd
at a dinner.
I agree with him thare, sed Ma.
shall newer fergit the mite you had
that im-prOmptco dinner & invited Kid
Broad & sum show gurls & introduced
them to Mister & MiSSus Blake Of the
as mixed as any crowd that ever saw,
sed Ma, & was mOar than glad wen
the last guest had went away from
the feest-
IA, Ha, sed Pa, 7 remember that
party That was wen I used to hit it
up a Httel, wasent it, That sure was
a mixed gathering, but II I reemem-
Der rite, Sed Pa, it was MissuS Blake
& not old Blakey that wanted to go
hoam- He seemed to talk quite a in
rerest IN the show gurls that mite, the
old rascal I suppose thay was the
first live ones he had ever saw, too.
That IS one buty about a mixed party,
"a sed- Everybody at a mixed party
knows moar after the party has broak
up than thay knew befoar the party.
Now take a cOngeenyul party OF the
Hersr ar ~
Every one Of them knows what the
others know, Wich maiks them con-
geenyul so thay set around & main
tain the polite silence which is always
thing nOar to say
Mister Martin says that It Is bad
form to use such words as wealthy
& elegant homelys" sed Ma
Mister Martin is raving, sed Pa.
What in the world is wrong about
using the word 'homely7' It seems
to me that Mister Gray, who rote the
Elegy, used the word "homely' and
nobody seemed TO think it was bad
FORM eether. I suppose he used bad
form wen he rote The path OF glory
leads but 10 the grave, sed Pa Maybe
he used bad form. but wish cud b1v
a cuppel Of bushels Of that kind OF
bad FORM If I cud, sed Pa, wud
make a present of Il to the 400
What else does this Mister Martin
say?
He says a keen sense OF humor
helps the members OF the 4c0 to be
patient with the soshia1 bIunderers
that are knocking at the gate between
them & good society.
Well, well. sed Pa. II one OF the
members OF the 400 had q keen sense
Of humOr he would hand in his resig-
nation & be a regular man. Jest as his
old grandpa had been beefoar him.
You can't have very keen sense OF
humor & 60 along changing yure
clothes 10 times z day ven reel men
are out In thare rough suites bilding
& doing the work OF men. ssd Pa.
Imagine Abraham Linkun or Oliver
Cromwell stopping 10 times a day to
change thare clothes, sed Pa
am sorry you doant agree with
Mister Martin, sed Ma I have often
thought that I Wud like to get into
the 400. bet I Wud know enuff to
have peepul at my dinner parties. that
was congeenyul.