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IMPOLITENESS THAT IS
CREASING IN ENGLAND,
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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
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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
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solid
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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.
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asked,
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them tapsoio
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Wn in
that night, though | say it
young an’ mood loo }
black as a crow, an’ hair thic
but when thoy ms
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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
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afar up
living
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after their
cave-dweliers coul
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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
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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
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Everyday Life In a Georgia City.
pide of his mother, Mary Ball, and
related to him on the side of his sister Eliza
bets, who fuarried Fielding Lewis There
can be found here in Atlanta gentlemen
who are descended from Jonathan Edwards,
the great theologian and first president of
Princeton, and who are therefore of the
same blool as the brilliant and daring
Aaron Burr. Woe can find here, also, the
descendants of Lady Godiva, the heroine of
one of Tennyson's favorite poems Ming.
men whose ancestors battled against each
other in the wars of the Roses; crossed
words when the English met the Beots on
Flodden Field ; butchered one another under
the nicknames of Round-Head and Cavalier
and wrestiod in a death grapple on many a
gory field in Fence and Germany. But
time bas wiped out all differences and a
look alike and think alike — Atlanta Con-
stitution,
A Smart Young Amateur Catcher.
Ball players in Pittsburg are talkin
about the smart young catcher of an any
teur club, who was remarkable for catching
many batsmen out off foul tips, even when
the bat didn’t seem to strike within three or
four inches of the ball. An investigation
revealed that the catcher had a gum band
attached to his glove, and when he desired
to foul out a man be would raise the band
with one finger, and when the ball passed
under the bat release i The band would
soap against the glove, and all within bear
ing would hear a supposed foul Sip. — Chl
cago Herald
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