Show SOCIAL pretenders S f the ways of social pretenders are always amusing and often ingenious the e q query u e r do y you know n 0 w th the ea S smythe m athe th ly alno aone kr hobsons 0 bs 0 n s a and d the reply e p ay oh h intimately why I 1 dined with them only two n nights ago are common everywhere though they deceive no DO one in england however there are special forms and devices which are particularly interesting an englishman tells 4 I 1 of a certain ingenious friend of his who when writing a letter invariably begins with dear duchess through this he lightly runs his pen and then proceeds below soberly with dear smith by means of this simple device he has contrived to advance himself considerably in lite life in the earlier days of my london career continues the englishman 1 I remember having been much impressed by an individual who was apparently patently ly acquainted with all the car arlage folk in town his hat bat was perpetually petua lly on the move no sooner had a carriage dashed past than he would bow at times casually remarking why theres lady baltimore what a charming woman she Is or ot otherwise berwise making some such airy comment on the situation As a 9 matter of fact he be was every bit as J complete a stranger to the lady as 1 I was myself I 1 groan when I 1 recall the numerous dinners and other expensive civilities I 1 wasted on this execrable old humbug in those innocent days another self belt advertiser had once and q once only boon been favored with a brief conversation with a prominent royal personage ever afterward he be invariably ad addressed dresse d every one aoe as sir occasionally casio caslo nally however co correcting himself and apologizing on oa the grounds of his long connection nith royalty still another individual contrives to enter upon his intimacy with great people immediately on learning of 0 their demise no sooner do the papers A an bounce that tile the right honorable the tha earl of Scatter more has departed this life than this fellow s straightaway tr alg ald y and adopts the late peer as a an n old i much lamented friend lie he thrives on these spurious post morten intimacies cies the most surprising scheme according to american Dot cottons IOns Is t that hat of mrs somerset cobbles a basell fascinating dating and ambitious little lady posses possessed of pretty eyes and a fixed det determination ermil to make her way up in the world dally for weeks did a smart art single colors an and d J brougham bearing the royal stamped with the royal crest display f itself at her door and dally daily tor or weeks JB did the enalo neighbors grind their alic f 6 secret teeth thereat somehow her k bribed S leaked out she had it appeared his nias fl bringing the coachman into tera carriage to do short duty ditty each e day outside her door |