162          SOCLETY AS I HAVE FOUND IT.

loving hearts in the garb of fashion as out
of it. A thorough acquaintance with the
world enables them to distinoruish the wheat
from the chaff, so that all the good work they
do is done with knowledge and effect. The
world could not dispense with it. Fashion
selects its own votaries. You will see cer¬
tain members of a family born to it, as it
were, others of the same family with none
of its attributes. You can give no explana¬
tion of this ; " One is taken, the other left."
Such and such a man or woman are cited
as having been always fashionable. The
talent of and for society develops itself just
as does the talent for art.