Why did she treat Willits--drunken vulgarian as he was--differently from the way she had treated him?
An English vulgarian is often hushed into silence by the presence of his social superior; an American vulgarian either recognises none such or tries to prove himself as good as you by being unnecessarily grob.
It is only the boor who demands a savoury and a roast of equal bulk; it is only the vulgarian who wishes as much of his paper occupied by brutal prize-fights or vapid "personals" as by important political information or literary criticism.
Such a mistake stamps one as a vulgarianor an ignoramus.
His social standing is so firm that a jostle, or even a push from a vulgarian who chances to pass his way, can not disturb him.
As said in another chapter, a well-bred person always lives within the walls of his personal reserve, a vulgarian has no walls--or at least none that do not collapse at the slightest touch.
Then there is the vulgarian of fulsome compliment: "Why are you so beautiful?
Only a vulgarian talks ceaselessly about how much this or that cost him.
But because a tiara is beautiful at a ball, or a spray of feathers, or a high comb, or another ornament, does not mean that all of these should be put on together and worn in a restaurant; which is just what the vulgarian would do.
I must, however, observe that the interesting young gentleman to whom I allude did not seem to be more pleased with the conversation and conduct of this vulgarian than myself.
Letter from Texas and a Little Vulgarian in a Red Hat .
Letter from Texas and a Little Vulgarian in a Red Hat.
