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...week or two ahead of anybody else; his cigar-boxes and wine-bottles had the most recherche labels in the world; and his mantel-piece was covered with autograph portraits of the leading theatrical celebrities of the day. But with all this magnificence, Smith knew absolutely nothing. His tailor sent him his clothes, and he hardly knew how they were cut. He could n't tell the difference between cider and champagne, - much less between a real Havana and a domestic descendant of old sogers. He positively was not sure whether Signora Murfini of the Howard Athenaeum was really...
...people whom his self-respect and pride will permit him to regard with nothing but contempt. The degradation involved in a peaceful struggle for dollars and cents with your fellow-man is, however, hardly equal to the humiliation of a life-long squabble with your butcher and your tailor, and of a constant sense of your inability to meet the demands of those importunate tradesmen; and before you determine that you are too good to work, you will do well to assure yourself that you are provided with means enough to employ workmen...
Such is the ideal scrub. Many a good fellow, whose purse will not permit him to choose his tailor, is wrongfully confounded with him. Many a man who swells with as much self-satisfaction as the fabulous frog is nearer to him than he ever imagined. Many approach him more or less nearly at one point or another, but a scrub is a perfect scrub only when he is physically, mentally, and morally in need of a good scrubbing...
...discriminating eye selects the tall and mature, - red siders are as good as red tickets in some cases, - and the lucky ones pass in, and the little men and late-comers are left in the cold. Our first care is to get our costume, of course from the tailor. But lo! when we ask our neighbor to tie our sandals, a sober "grind" confronts us in tights. Then we gather before the glass, and apply the blacking and rouge. Our helmets and lances are supplied, and we are ready for the drill. Coming down the mountain-side is particularly trying...