Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1881 — Social Definitions. [ARTICLE]
Social Definitions.
'A privileged person—Or_e who is so much a savage when thwarted that civilized persons avoid thwarting him. A practical man—One whose judgment is not distracted by the power of seeing far before him. A good-tempered man—One who is so free from feeling himself as not to be disagreeably affected by the absence of it in others. Nice people—People who always behave like other people. A popular man—One who is so boldly vulgar that the timidly vulgar admire him. A domestic woman—A woman like a domestic. A New England pastor called upon one of his deacons with whom he was at a variance, and, with an air of great solemnity, said: “ Brother, it is a shame that this quarrel of ours should bring scandal upon the church. I have prayed earnestly for guidanoe in the matter, and-have come to the conclusion that you must give in, for I cannot.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. Do not waste your money for every new rem edy advertised to cure a cough, when you know that Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup has stood th e popular test for thirty years. Price 25 cents.
