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STAND UP, YE SOCIAL LIONS

Mrs. Peattie Arragins the Sickly
From That Sin From
Nature's Rule.

A Few Clear Cut Expressions Regarding
Omaha's Society in Common with
That of Everyone

The San Francisco Argonaut, the other day, printed a London letter on the subject of the manners of the society young man of London. It was a severe but probably a just arrangement. It says:

The germ of unhappiness in marriage. I behave to consist entirely in their utter laxity not to any the brutality, of modern manners. In fact, they shine by their abusers. Beyond the mechanical fact that a man lifts his hat to a lady in the street, or gets up when she leaves the room, what distressing acts of [roiteness?] is the guilty of the smart nineteenth century young man thinks he confers a favor on his hostess if be accepts her levitation to dinner, generally keeping her waiting for the answer as long as the possibly can, in case something more agreeable might happen to turn up. If he goes to a dance he takes very good cure net to arrive till supper time, completely ignoring the smiling faced, nicely gowned young ladies who are anxiously awaiting his advent. He wisely avoids asking the opinion daughters of the house to dance as lie abhors absence of beauty—looks upon it, indeed, as a personal insult—selects a few of the prettiest young married women for the recipients of his favors, lounges away an hour in a sitting room, fakes a couple of turns in a waltz, settles himself down to an excellent supper (for the smart young man never visits a house where he is not quite sure of the excellence of the cook and the wine) and walks home jauntily in the morning air, with overcome thrown around and hat poised at the back of the hand, in the serene confidence that he has passed a well spent evening

Should some misguided person venture to introduce a young lady to him, however [?] or attractive, he promptly after the formality of presentation, tures on his [henigrand?] walks away

"Such check!" he matters under his breath, "to introduce a girl to me when I know such heaps of them already"

Astocardleiving after dinner or parties he considers that an exploded relic of the past. His presence at the entertainment was honer enough, and any further acknowledgment be leaves to the struggling young man who is not yet smart enough to be uncivil A friend of mine, a mother and hostess herself half-fainting with heat and fatigue once, inlier cariy days of chaperonage, whispered to he daughter "Tell your partner i should like to go down to the' To which the well trained damsel promptly responded "Mamma, if I wore to tell him that, he would never ask me to dance again!' So the patient mother had to wait until some grizzly bearded friend of youth, in attendance on his own daughter, took pity on her loneliness and offered her his arm

Many and bitter are the experiences of chaperons, they must smile and smile ever on the fastidious young men, and tempt them with good dinners and invitations to the theater and opera, content to be relegated into solitude and silence themselves With the matronly robe, an elderly woman puts on utter imperviousness to all the natural sensitiveness of a woman If she is wise and effaces herself utterly and is content with the distant bow from the men she has so generously entertained, she may have the satisfaction of knowing that her pitty daughters dance and enjoy their balls.

It will not do for Americans to set this down as an exclusive definition of London society, and to thank heaven that we are not as they are for, by the most incontestibly correct evidence, our own society is no better, Mr. Ward MC Allister, writing is the Sunday World of New York, says that society is the gay, fashionable element from the upper 10,000. He assures us taht it must have larger proportions than mere wealth confers. It must have strife, and contention, and jealousy, and envy to be brilliant, It's motto is, "I go you one better." That is, if a society man gives dinner, all other society men must give a better one if a society woman appears splendidly dressed, gil other society women must possess a proper envy and appear yet more richly attired. I his is brilliancy—so Mr. Mc Allister says—and society. it is safe to believe that he has not been trying to be satirical. He has, indeed, been historically accurate, Society, which owes its cohesiveness to a love of fashion, is as it has been described above.

When one touches upon Omaha society, one touches a tender point. There are so many person in it who are there almost by force of circumstances, and whose hearts are warm, and their lives pure and useful in spite of their connection with a body that aspires to be purely fashionable, that one hesitates to relapse into unkind generalizations. Omaha society, for the very reason that it is yet new, flexible, and unformed, it not contained in the version vices of its kind. But it already possesses much of which there is cause to be ashamed.

The manners of many of the young men here are no better than those described in the London letter quoted above, it is a well known fact, and one hears it whispered everywhere, that hardly echo of the parties and balls of the winter has been a success, owing the facing the young men would not dance, nor talk, nor pay attention to the young ladies, nor do anth8ing that a gentleman is expected to do on a Gaia occasion. They have stood around the dorrs in stupid groups, looking cynical—or trying to do so— and discussing without much interest, the relative charms of the young ladies who, arrayed for their approval, and launched out into society for their [sidurrment?], have endeavored in vain to make themselves attractive

STAND UP, YE SOCIAL LIONS

Mrs. Peattie Arragins the Sickly
From That Sin From
Nature's Rule.

A Few Clear Cut Expressions Regarding
Omaha's Society in Common with
That of Everyone

The San Francisco Argonaut, the other day, printed a London letter on the subject of the manners of the society young man of London. It was a severe but probably a just arrangement. It says:

The germ of unhappiness in marriage. I behave to consist entirely in their utter laxity not to any the brutality, of modern manners. In fact, they shine by their abusers. Beyond the mechanical fact that a man lifts his hat to a lady in the street, or gets up when she leaves the room, what distressing acts of [roiteness?] is the guilty of the smart nineteenth century young man thinks he confers a favor on his hostess if be accepts her levitation to dinner, generally keeping her waiting for the answer as long as the possibly can, in case something more agreeable might happen to turn up. If he goes to a dance he takes very good cure net to arrive till supper time, completely ignoring the smiling faced, nicely gowned young ladies who are anxiously awaiting his advent. He wisely avoids asking the opinion daughters of the house to dance as lie abhors absence of beauty—looks upon it, indeed, as a personal insult—selects a few of the prettiest young married women for the recipients of his favors, lounges away an hour in a sitting room, fakes a couple of turns in a waltz, settles himself down to an excellent supper (for the smart young man never visits a house where he is not quite sure of the excellence of the cook and the wine) and walks home jauntily in the morning air, with overcome thrown around and hat poised at the back of the hand, in the serene confidence that he has passed a well spent evening

Should some misguided person venture to introduce a young lady to him, however [?] or attractive, he promptly after the formality of presentation, tures on his [henigrand?] walks away

"Such check!" he matters under his breath, "to introduce a girl to me when I know such heaps of them already"

Astocardleiving after dinner or parties he considers that an exploded relic of the past. His presence at the entertainment was honer enough, and any further acknowledgment be leaves to the struggling young man who is not yet smart enough to be uncivil A friend of mine, a mother and hostess herself half-fainting with heat and fatigue once, inlier cariy days of chaperonage, whispered to he daughter "Tell your partner i should like to go down to the' To which the well trained damsel promptly responded "Mamma, if I wore to tell him that, he would never ask me to dance again!' So the patient mother had to wait until some grizzly bearded friend of youth, in attendance on his own daughter, took pity on her loneliness and offered her his arm

Many and bitter are the experiences of chaperons, they must smile and smile ever on the fastidious young men, and tempt them with good dinners and invitations to the theater and opera, content to be relegated into solitude and silence themselves With the matronly robe, an elderly woman puts on utter imperviousness to all the natural sensitiveness of a woman If she is wise and effaces herself utterly and is content with the distant bow from the men she has so generously entertained, she may have the satisfaction of knowing that her pitty daughters dance and enjoy their balls.

It will not do for Americans to set this down as an exclusive definition of London society, and to thank heaven that we are not as they are for, by the most incontestibly correct evidence, our own society is no better, Mr. Ward MC Allister, writing is the Sunday World of New York, says that society is the gay, fashionable element from the upper 10,000. He assures us taht it must have larger proportions than mere wealth confers. It must have strife, and contention, and jealousy, and envy to be brilliant, It's motto is, "I go you one better." That is, if a society man gives dinner, all other society men must give a better one if a society woman appears splendidly dressed, gil other society women must possess a proper envy and appear yet more richly attired. I his is brilliancy—so Mr. Mc Allister says—and society. it is safe to believe that he has not been trying to be satirical. He has, indeed, been historically accurate, Society, which owes its cohesiveness to a love of fashion, is as it has been described above.

When one touches upon Omaha society, one touches a tender point. There are so many person in it who are there almost by force of circumstances, and whose hearts are warm, and their lives pure and useful in spite of their connection with a body that aspires to be purely fashionable, that one hesitates to relapse into unkind generalizations. Omaha society, for the very reason that it is yet new, flexible, and unformed, it not contained in the version vices of its kind. But it already possesses much of which there is cause to be ashamed.

The manners of many of the young men here are no better than those described in the London letter quoted above, it is a well known fact, and one hears it whispered everywhere, that hardly echo of the parties and balls of the winter has been a success, owing the facing the young men would not dance, nor talk, nor pay attention to the young ladies, nor do anth8ing that a gentleman is expected to do on a Gaia occasion. They have stood around the dorrs in stupid groups, looking cynical—or trying to do so— and discussing without much interest, the relative charms of the young ladies who, arrayed for their approval, and launched out into society for their [sidurrment?], have endeavored in vain to make themselves attractive