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Show STEEL DUTTONS. They Witty lt.tort ii?7n Italian Ijidy of Uuilltr. f The prejuilices in favor of nobility I nro very strong In Italy, and though family connections nro prized fco highly high-ly there, no man seems ashamed If ho lm.no family to bonst. In "Glimpses f Italian Boclety" tho author says that t,ho wns astonished to henr n well-bred well-bred clergyman Ray (frnvoly to afrlond, also n innn eminent for talents and fortune: "Yes, there is n grand invitation at melt n place to-night, but I don't go hectiuio 1 nm not n gentleman; and the master doMred I would lot you know that It was for no other reason that you had not n card, too, my good friend, for it la nn Invitation for liono but peoplo of fashion, you soo." At nil this no ono stnres, no one lnughs; nnd It li nccepted ns tho proper thine. A woman of quality, near whom I eat at tho Ono ball llragadln mado In honor of the season, Inquired how I had passed tho morning. I named i-ewrul churches I lind looked Into, particularly Hint which thoy esteem beyond the rest ns a favorite work of Pnllndlo, and culled the Redontoro. "You do very right," wild sho, "to look at our churches, ns you hnro none In Hugliind, I know; but, then, you ha v.i t.o ninny other Uno things, such charming steel buttons, for example," pre&slntf my baud to show that sho meant no offense. |
