Show thighs essay 1 which he tells what Is knows and does not know about society Is a great invention As to when it started in business where for I 1 am in as agno ranco as most of those who claim to have read up on the subject the design in the first instance was doubt less the establishment ot a of things in which as much nature as possible could be extracted from the victim and as great a percenta 9 of deception and display distilled di stille a into film what is hereid said about him has reference also to her iu this case he ern braces her a very com men occurrence well weve got it anyway that It strikes but bits everywhere the old infer and feeble who might naturally be supposed to have outgrown the in firmi ties of youth coming in for their abare ibare of the business like the ful and giddy even those who seem to have no ipe cial object in causing themselves to be so distorted that mother nature know them honest and homely follows like the writer of this article have not acon il emitted to escape and it really takes up nearly all of ones time to pro himself from appearing unsophisticated and behind the age te amount of annoyance and in convenience the tant above the ago of 21 years exclusive of indians not taxed and those who have nothing to tax will undergo to avoid any aphea ance of keenness ve enness and to assume the of one who has passed through the society refinery and come out at the right end is wonderful oe would be if it so nearly universo a 1 I 1 observed on one occasion such a nice man meeting a couple of lady friends he had a larg a bundle presumably his witolo new dr ass on his left arm and his cane was carried in his right band to raise his hat to them with his right hand with ids cane dangling in it would hays teen bad form and to have shifted it to the other would have been extremely outre it not to some extent de J ure and it ended in his dropping fits pre clous burden it burst open got soiled and he got something else abert be reached home but lie got the list off now this person was gnp a sensible citizen and bad never committed an wore that I 1 know of the only thing I 1 ever heard of derogatory to him was that lie had served a term in the lee but what of that if I 1 were on a jury which was trying a man for a crime and no other evidence could be produced tl n that he had been in the would refuse to convict although others might be as perverse as myself and thus hang tb 0 jury instead 1 the accused but wit a t could be thought of him after that little episode to raise ones haton meeting a lady ac is A graceful thing to do one which if it be properly done Is calculated to promote friendship and likel pleasant feelings afterward the hat lifter is a married man wl I 1 ile the lady 13 young and band aal the fellows wife gets to bear of the ran faction with the ments and additions act is performer per formel with the utmost impunity and immunity it Is a poor compliment to the fair friends for the one not so fair to fan dergo what the person re erred to did on that occasion it was equivalent to saying to them boti got sense erio u gh to see how heavily I 1 am emba d and aloo how entirely impracticable a for me to extend the customary politeness and so ot course y 0 a take the will for the ded and let me air w h owanda ab ohno I 1 will have to make A sacrifice of com mou sense and even decency to cause you to understand that I 1 am in society up to my neck and know all the ropes that about the way of it another annoyance to those whose occupation causes them to deal largel y concrete facts when such can be found is the iniquitous custom some society people hake of sending notes of invitation or the like to friends and putting a string of capital letters at the end of them the notes not the I 1 got one once and at the end of the document were the cabalistic characters P V R it have been exactly the to show my ignorance of society by asking anybody what chef ant and I 1 almost studied myself into the provo asylum 60 called trying to get it through the citadel of my imagination bui it come such explanations as some people very rich and san Pete Valley It allway 11 were plausible enough but seem to fit I 1 had to give it up finally and dont know but I 1 am as wil off the latest indignity of this kind per petru ted on me was in ogden shortly after arrival here I 1 received a scented missive in the words and figures fol lowing to wit mr essay would you be so kind as to form one of a pleasant party at this ey ening very truly f P 0 13 11 letters worry me so much I 1 took them to mean ri ease com e soon I 1 11 and hastened to comply hastily on my other collar and amoo thing out mhd remains of a once head af hair I 1 adjourned to the place designated but I 1 was doomed to dis there was no one at home taking this as a simple of will ale into 1 I beat a lasty retreat I 1 afterward learned from a friend who was present that the affair cam 0 off and they had a glorious time but that it was bad form to come before 10 V in I 1 then asked him w z in I 1 PC S meant an I 1 received the yet altogether ous information that it was please como sober 11 yours socially X I 1 1 I 4 1 I 1 11 |