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Show Caste at a Discount. The Courier-Journal in an article on social distinctions dis-tinctions says that it "is getting to be a serious matter. It is destroying all recognition of patient merit. Unlike in countries where there are established estab-lished classes, and where there are unbroken friendships throughout life, a man's intimacy with friends is not proof against such a paltry thing a.s tho dilTerenco between a plug hat and the baser styles. What becomes of a good record if disaster overtakes the family? Where are the memories of the grand old days, twenty years ago, when the lordly head of the family entertained a great circlo of friends ? The gueata of those goldon days may ride now behind carriages of trumped up crests and monograms, and bo cut by the members ol that household whose prosperity they thon touted. Society the world over is hollow enough, and this is natural, but it in a problem whether this feverish civilization civi-lization that has Bprung up since the war has not made- permanent some odious features of American life. There is no other society like- it, and the number of male idiots of an ob-ncuro ob-ncuro origin who owo tailor bills iu daily increasing." |