The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-19

put into a handsome setting. But its true value is there and wben freed from the dross of it's environ. ment, polished and brought to the light, it sends out it's beautifully seintillating, sparkling beams, an or nament to society. Even if never mt into a handsome setting, it is appre. ciated for it's true value by con. 1ossieur who will instantly recognize the pure gem, passing by the inferior ones that, perhaps, have an elaborate. rich or gaudy setting.
 Of course, you catch the gist of. this-that purely refined people pre. fer for associates well-bred peonle even though hampered with poverty to those who have the handsome setting (wealta and fine homes) hut lack something that marks the caste of We're de We're"
 Good breeding need never 20 beg. ging for admiration. It commands re. spect and homage as magnet draws steel.
 So, the truly elegant people aeed not be discouraged because they can not entertain lavishly, etc Their po- sition in society is assured just as ,s that of old pioneer families of good lineage. It is the newly rich, the SO. cially ambitious ones ''drying to break into society" who. having. Der haps, ancestry of indifferent, not to say disagreeable, quality, often with lavish and frequent entertaining buy their way into coveted social prom thence. Well, they pay the price for what they get out of it.
 There is a great deal of this in the so-caled smart set" in every town where money is more valued than culture. It is such serious thing. too, to these self-same smart set ters' that if the society editor should inadvertently omit the name of Mrs. Pushing from those present at the party of Mrs. Good Standing, she'd acquire a lifelong enemy.
 The phone of the society editor |
 
 out" is demanded Or, she phones to the office and tells the manager that | she has seen the society editor do | some improper thing in public,' etc, but asked to give her name, refuses. | This revenge is retaliation with a | baleful venom in it. Luckily, the | editors understand such things and l set it down as an act of vengeance | on the part of some small-souled in. dividual whom the society editor un. Intentionally offended
 Acquired good breeding is not to be underrated. It proves the value of education and advances civi!iza- tion, adding culture to society in gen. eral It speaks well for the one who has surmounted the difficulties of birth and environment, perhaps toll, ing alone fin the night while others . slept, to acquire knowledge and cul- 1 ture; then. like the water-lily. rising | from out the slime and mire to blos som into lovehness, a blessing to some gloomy place
 Now, as to limitations of good breeding. Better be an imitator of good things than doer of evil. , Maybe the next generation will pro ! duce some descendants who will 1 cease initiating and try to acquire. ! After a few more generations. may | be evolved descendants of innate good breeding. for, if we are to be- lieve the Bible story of Adam and Eve, all of us have the same starting point in ancestry. The difference in the old families and the new families being that shown between the wild rose as the cultivated hot house variety. One has had genera tions or centuries of culture while the other is in its wild state. But, the wild rose of today may become the cultivated rose of some future generation.
 Echoes of the Teachers Associa'