BALL-ROOM SNOBS.
A neat j>iece of snobbery was exhibited by some members of the would-be bon ton at a ball in Tauranga the other day. Two couples were standing as if waiting for some others to join them in order to complete the set. At length two other couples stood up. But th# first-comers sniffed the air with their patrician noses, and, after a hasty consultation, retired to their seats, leaving the others to realise the slight and the depth of local snobbery at the same time. Naturally the couples so offensively treated felt much hurt, and the husband of one of the ladies on his return instituted inquiries, vhich resulted in two apologies— -one given readily and frankly, the other after an attempted evasion and a denial of the circumstances. The airs which some upstarts, who imagine themselves superior to their neighbours, give themselves in second-rate society are enough to make a cat laugh.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 167, 24 November 1883, Page 3
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155BALL-ROOM SNOBS. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 167, 24 November 1883, Page 3
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