Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1892-10-02 | Page 17 | Efforts to Define Vanity

EFFORTS TO DEFINE VANITY This is from the London TidBUs A few weeks ago we offered a prize of two guineas for the best definition of vanity The winning definition is oonoonOO uoo The rosecolored spectacles through which we view ourselves 0000 000 00 The following are some of the definitions defini-tions sent in The minimum of egg and the maximum of cackle A merciful provision of nature whereby fools are satisfied with their folly The peacocks tail of humanity A grain of sand convinced that it is a mountain The gilded robes in which ignorance wraps itself Selfesteem caricatured The incurable 1 affection WhICh unfortunately un-fortunately blinds us all A small i with a big dot Tho difference between a fools estimate of bis own value and the estimates of the world at large Pride in a state of effervescence An overdraft on ones personal account at the Bank of SelfEsteem The caricature of true ambitionregret able in great men laughable in small men