He doesn't want his visage to "_cream and mantle as a standing pond_" as Shakespeare aptly puts it--therefore the windows of his thinking department are kept open for refreshing draughts from the outside.

He reasons that always there are new guests, new faces, new things to talk about at the banquet board of life.
[Illustration: _Taking on Local Color_] And here is the point--if men who carry on the great industries of the world find a way to keep themselves democratic surely men of less importance should be able to do the same?
The snob is about as offensive a person as could be described.

He is usually a hypocrite or an ignoramus--sometimes both.

His pomposity is naturally repellent.

We easily become accustomed to dodging such characters.