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avenue. Within these and like sacred precincts elsewhere, the answer to the question, Who's who? must be given before entrance is permitted. Once within them one would doubt if society existed elsewhere.

A matter-of-fact damsel asked a bright, jolly girl who danced every night, if she were not tired of going so much into society. "Why," she replied, "I can't do that, I only go to parties." Are all the people worth knowing or marrying limited to a certain set? A rag-picker who carried her rags on her back congratulated herself on the marriage of her daughter to a man who carried his rags in a hand-cart.

There is no single feature of American uppishness which gives more occasion for alarm than this desire to move in upper circles. It destroys simplicity, underrates home life, makes us look down on average people and value opinion as an expression of some special person rather than as of worth

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