TR BRITISH BAD MANNERS. 3 en IMPOLITENESS THAT IS CREASING IN ENGLAND, ———— THE IN* Lack of Reverence and Respect to Age, Sex and Celebrity—Disregard of the Proprieties— Woman's Want of Cour tesy—Irreverent Sons. We have so persistently and generally abused the manners and customs of every foreign nation in turn that we have estab- lished by deduction a reputation for polite- ness, or “form,” as we are pleased to call it, which those foreign nations who take us on our own showing have for a long time ac cepted without protest. Gradually, how- ever, their blinded eyes are opening to a conviction that we are straying further and further every year from that code of cour- tesy, deference, and regard which, far from being hypocritical or stilted, is based on real simplicity, reason, and good nature, and adds so much to the charm of society and pleasantness of familiar intercourse. Roughness and independence are not the most marked features of the present state of social decadence, a curt abruptness of speech and brusquerie of manner which to the looker on is almost impertinent and often aggressive, We have reduced to a minimum the out ward manifestations of reverence and re- spect to age, sex, or celebrity; we have dis- carded every formula which takes away the brutality of the short “yes” or *“no;” and to exonerate ourselves from a reproach of incivility we declare the appeilations of “sir? and “madam”to be excessively vulgar, making common politeness an attribute of the lower ordera “Allright,” as an affirm- ative is the usual rejoinder between young men and girls, just as “I say“ is the common form of interjection and appeal “Come along” is a favorite mode of request- ing a young lady to stand up for a dance or to adjourn to tennis, even after first formal introduction. IMPOLITENESS LADIES, The courteous raising of the hat which a Fregchman never refuses even to a shop- keafor on entering her premises, if she bo a woman or other women are preseat, is al most unknown to the Englishnian of the upper classes; his Linger gows up to the brim of his hat sometimes and a brisk nod is all the acknowledgment he vouchsafes to =o lady's recognition wen she passes him in the street; if she stops to address him, he almost invariably remains covered while shaking hands with her, and is as often as not the one who takes leave first In drawing rooms and at table, gentlemen re- main sitting while ladies stand, and allow themselves to be spoken to without rising from their chairs, and they also suffer the ladies to ring bells and pick up things from the floor without; offering any assistance At the stalls of the opera a duke sat » whole evening nursing bis leg in so une- quivocal a fashion that his foot nearly re- posed in the lap of his neighbor, who had to drag ber skirts away from the contact. The prince of Wales will enter his box at the play and take his place before the princess of Wales and her lady in waiting are seated ; he will then lean forward on both elbows, over the cushioned ledge, staring at the house with his opera glass, and appar ently entirely ignore their presence. Very young men, mere lads just gazetted to some crack regiment, will loll in front of white-haired gentlemen at a party or con- cert, and utterly obstruct any view of what is going on, without a word ot apol- ogy or attempt to get out of the way. Women are so remiss themselves in the most ordinary forms of good breeding that they have imperilied their right to claim it from the other sex, and they submit calmly to bave their male companions stuoke while escorting them or driving with them. Not one could give the answer which the French woman quietly, innocently returned to the man who in a railway carriage asked ber before lighting his cigar if smokes incom- moded her. “I do not know,” she replied, “for no one has ever smoked whare | was” In their utter disregard of the feelings and prejudices of others they forget their own dignity and abjure the teachings of their education. Not only will they talk and laugh unrestrainediy while a song or reci tation is going on in a crowded assembly, to the discomfiture of the performer and the annoyance of the hostess, but before ils conclusion they will noisily make their exit THE TREATMENT OF GUESTS Dinner parties are no longer social gather. ings on a neutral ground for polished con. versation and the interchange for wit and humor, but are merely the paying off of scores and debts, the checking off of invita tions regardless of community in tastes The guests know on what terms they are asked. They are paired with careless in difference as to their relative aflinities or antipathies, and they are not expected to stay more than twenty minutes after the repast is over. Precedence of rank alone retains its prestige, and certainly bas no connection, however remote, with polite ness. The wife or widow of an illustrious statesman, of a man prominent in art and literature, will be relegated behind her young daughter who has received a title by marriage. The inane lordling, the peer of yesterday, just out of his Eton jacket, is taken in by the mistress of the house to the exclusion of a distinguished foreigner. This being a recognized custom in England, it may not, perhaps, come under the heading of absolute incivility, but the fact remains that the English of the upper classes are la- mentably ignorant of the primary rules of etiquette and courtesy, any infraction of which would seern elsowheres an insult wo good breeding aud the mark of » want of education. The attitude of sons to their parents borders on the unfilial; the name of “lather” and “mother is relegated to the nursery; the almost insuiting +p. thets of “governor,” “pater,” “mater,” take their place, and the juveniles never allude to their elders other wise than the oll man, the Jid woman The softest couch, the cosiest corner is taken by the children; their parents are kept waiting without compunction, and lit tie or no regard is paid to any injunction or recommendation, especially when stran- gors are present, only eliciting a balf-rebell- ious, half-contemptuous protest. With other courtesies the art of listening has disappeared. Few persons abstain from interruption, from the introduction of topics alien to the one under discussion, and from point blank contradiction. Elderly people are, to use a colloquialistn, “shut up,” and no pretense is made of trying to be agreeable to thetn in return for the open- handed hospitality they dispense. ii the hosts shunt many their the guests seem to forget entirely that have any. ~M. de 8. London Tir bo or York Sun, The Dunkard Colony in Kansas Of the twenty original families in the Dunkard colony, Norton county, Kansas, only five remain, They are rolling up “wealth. The colony now covers a territory of eight square miles. Each farmer has an a io have 200 acres A windmill may be seen on nearly every farm. Exchange, Jus husitét of morocco Js restored by Sis. nishing white an egg applied ERB RIPONEE. a heii A MUNCHAUSEN OF '40. Traveling In a Land of Solid Gold of » Young Male. he third '40er began: “I was by myself, too, when I struck it big. One day I was prospectin’ through an open country, an’ traveled on ’till after night, tryin’ to find water, At last I rode over a ridge, an’ noticed that my mules shoes kep’ clinkin’ against somethin’. I had a fine young mule. There was a ¥ alley at the bottom of the ridge and water. 1 went to sleep, and waked up when day begin to break, but rolled an’ slep’ again Nex’ hold my eyes open until I tried a long timo, there was such a glitter.” “Mica!” one of the party suggested “Gold, sir! Gold everywhere! I'd thrown part of my blanket over a chunk to make a piller; the chunk was gold, gold! The ridge I'd come over was old, solid gold. On ’tother side of the valley was mountaing of gold risin’ up an’ glitter- in' in ths sunshine had snow on the top, but was gold up to the snow. Fellers, that mountain looked like a picter. eatin’ days was over, when three men came up to me, two young men an’ man, Judgin’ from their couldn't gnderstand their talk—the 3 i but the ole solid ms-1 x3 i OF oung aot nell fellers wanted to kill ‘persuaded "em not ter. buttons on their clothes tapsoles of gold The man was gold pipe, with a blin'folded me an’ led mo awn) The narrator stopped and + retrospecting. “Wall, did they asked, “Seems to ma | listen them tapsoio “Was they “When 1 laid « mp me, | wv q 1 + BY od an’ hesltap lon 3 Sia WHE go: sw an’ heels fu long about it Wn in that night, though | say it young an’ mood loo } black as a crow, an’ hair thic but when thoy ms in left whl Fed DY was grLy An’ you: “lake it § “Wh nas becas “The old man rode it « Cave«Dwellers Not Ye It was generally thought that the c dwellers were an extinct race, but a Fry tourist in Sicily bas Sicily, not far from primitive abodes are still deep, parrow valley, called the Val d'lspi the traveler's attention is diverted from a pure, limpid stream, meandering amid flowers, meas and vines, to { of the hills, which are perforated with doors and windows, form the dwelling -piaces of the inks On examination it is found that the toes, dug from the testably the first Sicily. Th for anterior to since one Jdous not soe an) of the first notions not even the either circular o : writer founa viiag these ob Syracuse, where fnusa Ina a, thea p, rocky sides afar up living least i0¢ after their cave-dweliers coul OWIhors 1 thus be as the strongest fortress. Tho ceaded in winni these peopl pitality. Iie sa) goat's milk so g Val d'lspica yields in ancient Hybla, which towers + ouly three miles distance” due to the abundance of flowers and o matic vines which cloths the ro verdant valley, that might have the scone of the adventurs of Ban Fraucicco Chronicle “8 Of sory Nationnlities as Seca In Art In Paris there is an official list artists’ models, and their ngmber present year amounts to ities are Italians head the list the they constitute about a third self only supplies one haif what Italy plies. Uf French models in the Paris ios there are but 10. The Germans nu ber strong at 80, and there are tu Spanish girls, the same number of Teig $5 English, “0 Americans, 4 Portuguese and 1 Irish girl bave passed their majorit are young girls from Iv to Of course they do not gain hood exclusively by their sitting Most of thom are ballet girls—or to adopt their own definition, dramatic artista Then t forty dress makers, thirty manufacturers of artificial flowers, and the same number of milliners, while a large margin have n cupation. Of the 67] at least a third are fa miliar with the inside of prisons as a of the studios There are two sittings in each day —a morning and an afternoon. The morning is from 5 to 12; the evening from | toh, or from 2 to 6, and these sittings range in remuneration from 2 francs francs — Chicago Herald AS vm $68 TAA represented in this documnt i of whole + t » Paris stud- Nwigs, J Aviat $a rs rusirans, Of th All the oh 5 $4 O iivell on there are 3 0 00 well # . 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