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We cannot even see a man with a book without worrying over the effect it may have on him, and we would turn every critic into a sort of literary legislator. We try to compel good taste and the harmless word "culture" has already acquired a grim and horrid sound. On the lightest of matters we lay the heaviest of hands. At every point our indefatigable instructors would substitute a formula for a vital process. Our fancied obligations to these little formulas are for the most part the subject of this book, which is made up of certain news paper and magazine articles, edited and rear ranged. The topics discussed are transitory, but they are bound to recur, and the writings quoted are evanescent but they are of a kind that often returns.
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...glass do not even dazzle his landlady. Social triumphs are too esoteric over here. In general our dollared gentry are envied only for their dollars. Specialists in fashionable matters assume a range of information that does not exist. The details of the society columns are cabalistic to all but a few, and the good or bad effects of what is technically called fashionable example may not reach across the street. And yet there is always some one watching nervously to see if 90 THE FRIGHTENED MINORITY they drink more than they used to or play for higher stakes, or if the women are taking to cock tails or smoking cigarettes. If they find out anything they pass the word along, and straight way a flurried moralist will ask if there is any virtue left among our leisure classes. "Wealth and luxury have changed greatly the atmosphere of American life. " We are all in immediate dan ger of divorcing our wives and floating sinward on a flood of dry champagne. By the cockfights of our ancestors I...