Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1927, Page 51

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.—GRAVURE SECTION—DECEMBER 25, 1927, S c————————————————————— ST T Bigger and Better Snobs BY W. E. Hill. (Copyright, 1928 by the Chicago Tribune Syndieatey Noblesse oblige. These ladies of the old school would walk a mile for a title. Any old title, be it ever so humble, is something in these over- democratic United States Some people are snobbish from the very highest motives, let it be understood They just have to have something to The Adolf Flickzeibers are not quite in with the right suburban set. but, thanks to little Totsy. their only child. th ope to crash through shortly. Mrs. Flickzeiber has a fency to say “I had went” and “he done.” which has been a stumbling block, even though she cut the wrong people and bowed sweetly to the right ones. But Totsy will be able to get in with the right childr papa and The highbrow humor. Charles has a rarefied sense 7 £ look up to. and here it is! mama will follow of humor. He is very offish with those lowlifes who take . their comic moments too broadly. Just at the moment Charles is overhearing a comic lowbrow telling a second ditto not to eat too much turkcy on Christmas day, and not to let Santa Claus hand him any wooden money, ha, ha, ha. and Charles i< feeling snobbisher by the minute. d to be calle landed gentry, trying to be real hale »w with a member of the farming proletariat. He should have known better, because farmhands are very snobbish and superior about city folks, and that's why so many city people come away from a vaca tion on the farm with terrible inferiority complexes Mrs. Marie Smyth Gobang, the lovely Paris divorcee (nee Minnie Smith back ir Campello, Mass.), seldom visits the old home town. Marie is very hard boiled (par- boiled, some say) and prides herseli on being so, and when any members of the Smith family cross her path Marie up and cuts 'em dead. It pains Marie dreadfully to seem snobbish, but the Smith family are late Victorian, and, besides, says Marie, “I hate stupid people!” E] Nelson MeNasty s one of those transatlantu ¥ she as perfectly sstounded st the number of com won Amenicans on board the ship and simply won't have voth them Cuts them night and left with vare and s a wonder they lhve 1o see another day “hurope) says Mre McNasty, “has such calture, hut America dear dear! While not exactly a snob, Mrs. Clara Giltmore draws the line at “Hey, what m ‘ell d'you mean parking this junk heap here? You're certam people, and she 15 bringimg up her danghter Margie 1o do gonna get a ticket, young tellal” Trathe cops are very snobbish and delight hkewise A frosty bow and no more s enough for those people in hghhatting those low people who drive around e cheap cars that raule who have so far forgotten themselves as to be without o sizeable and creak. A Hispano or a Rolls can get away with nest to manslaughter mcofie but try at with vour old Lizewe and see what happens TN “\‘wfl 11y i P AT NN ) : (e