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TIIE SCItANTOJS" TK1BUNE--WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1896.
GARBONDALE.
JRdT will ple not that advertl;
. toents. ord.ra for Job work, and Item for
publication loft at the establishment 01
BhanAon Co., newsdealer. North Main
tract, will rcaiv prompt attention; 01
nc open from S a, m. to 10 p. m-1
MR. BRENNAN HONORED.
Creient Clubs Bnnquct at the Harri
sod lloase.
The members of the Crescent club
assembled on Monday evening for a
banquet nt the Harrison house In hon
or of I. M. Brennan. who is about to
take his departure for his old home
in Ireland, where he will spend the win
ter. A bountiful repast hud been pro
vlded by Landlord Monohan. After
the banquet, came the social enter
tainment beginning with a double quar
tette by the Crescents.
W. J. Bergan, president of the club,
presided as tuastniaster, and In a grace
ful manner Introduced the speakers.
Frank D. Collins was called to respond
to a toast relating to the topic of
'Banqueting." Then came the speech
of M. F. Moran In response to the
toast "Athletics." He showed the in
terest taken by the club In athletic
sports and illustrated his subject In a
witty manner. P. F. Clifford was call
ed to Illustrate the subject of "Patri
otism" and delivered a very earnest
address, reviewing Irish history from
the earliest times. The toastmaster. In
a few well chosen words, then Intro
duced their honored gueBt, Mayor
O'Neill, who was greeted with loud
applause. The speaker complimented
the club upon their progress In all that
constitutes a well organized society,
affording opportunities for honest en
joyment and Improvement. His ad
dress was eloquent and practical and
received warm applause. Mr. Bergan,
In behalf of the club, then expressed the
heartfelt wishes of the members for
brother, Mr. Brennan, that he might
enjoy the sacred associations of his old
home, and the reunion of mother and
son after years of separation.
Mr. Brennan expressed his thanks In
a brief address and spoke of his live
years' membership in the club. The
Crescent quartette snng "How can I
bear to leave thee." After the banquet
the members and their guests enjoyed
a social season at the club room.
Lecture 11 y Dr. Reed nnrns.
The Cycle club room has been en
gaged for the meeting of the Medical
society on Friday evening. Dr. Heed
Burns, of Scranton, will address the
members and their friends. The sub
ject will be the "Healing of Wounds."
and the lecture will prove of eat
value to surgeons and physicians. Dr.
Burns has had a large number of views
taken illustrating his subject, which
will be shown with a stereoptlcon. Af
ter the lecture refreshments will be
served and a social gathering will be
enjoyed.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NOTES.
The postponed social of the alumni
of Wood's Business college will be held
In the college rooms Friday evening.
The Odd Fellows' Hall association,
which was to hnve met Monday even
ing, has been postponed until Monday
evening of next week.
Mrs. J. A. Keynolds and her guest,
Mrs. B. T. Burns, of Elkdale, will go
to Scranton today, where they will
visit Mrs. N. E. Bice.
Stephens & Tucker, the Salem ave
nue grocers, have closed a deal f- the
purchase of the stock and business of
Thomas Levison. Mr. Levlson will
spend the winter In the South, where
he Is Interested In lumber land.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Barry Kowlson have
returned from a visit with friends in
Scranton.
Miss Kathryn Barrett has accepted
ft position in the store of M. Levene,
on North Main street.
J. Harry Bryden, of West Plttaton,
spent yesterday In this city.
Simon Spangenburg, of Eighth ave
nue, is ill.
Thomas Newcombe is 111 with typhoid
fever.
J. B. Shannon Is on a business trip
to New York city.
Miss Leone Farnam, of Green Ridge,
has returned home after visiting with
friends In town.
Dr. Fletcher removed a cataract from
the right eye of John J. Jones on Mon
day. The operation was successful.
Miss Grace Smith spent yesterday in
Scranton.
H. S. Bolton Is on a business trip to
New York city.
Mrs. Daniel Farrell Is visiting friends
In Plttston.
Hon. Samuel S. Jones has returned
from a trip to Harrisburg.
H. S. Singer, esq., has returned to
xmcw rork city.
Gabriel Pugliano has gone to New
jrorK on business.
J. Goldstein, of Binghamton, who
purchased the stock of the Boston Va
rlety store, will make this city his per
manent nome.
Thomas Ollmartln, of Cottage street,
is seriously ill.
Mrs. Patrick Brown and daughter
spent Monday m town.
Mrs. G. O. Kagler has returned from
a visit with friends In Scranton.
John Hanson, of Seventh avenue, a
prominent contractor and builder, of
this city, and Mrs. Ann Woody were
quietly married yesterday morning at
St. Kose church by the Kev. T. F. Cof
fey.
Misses Bridget and Ann Hart have
returned from a visit to New Xork
city.
DALTON.
The special services in the Methodist
Episcopal church which have been car
ried on for the paBt three weeks, nre
to be continued the present week. The
meetings are well attended.
Rev. H. H. Wilbur, of Factoryvllle.
conducted a very Interesting service
at the Young Men's Christian associa
tlon rooms last Sunday afternoon.
These services are becoming more In
teresting, and all young men of this
vicinity are urgently invited to attend
tnern.
The entertainment which was to have
been given by the pupils of the Graded
school on Thanksgiving evening, was
postponed Indefinitely on account of
the meetings being held j,n the Metho
dlst Episcopal church.
Miss Bertha Santee, Mr. Arthur Hor-
ton, students at Wyoming seminary,
nnd Mr. Stanley Steveiv. of Wilkes-
Burre, spent Sunday at Kev. J. B. San-
lee a.
Miss Rosa Santee has returned home
from Ithaca, N. Y., to spend the win
ter.
Mrs. A. Ball, who has been spending
CARPETS
FOR FALL TRADE
All the latest, from a 20c In
grain to the beat Wilton.
Oil Cloths and Linoleums, all
widths and prices.
Window Shades and Curtains,
all the latest novelties.
Fancy Rocking Chairs, uphol.
atftted ill nlll.h tnnatrv cult kiiM.
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atelle. Also a flue collection of
coorjier seats, ana our price al
ways the lowest.
J, SCOTT US,
fctntti, Vail Papers and Draperlei
111 UCKIWaKM ml
week In Scranton, returned home
yesterday.
Our local sportsmen have organised
a gun club. H. N. Dean has been elect
ed president and C. M. Btreeter, secre
tary and treasurer. The club already
consists of twelve members and some
others expect to Joint It. A rifle range
will be laid out on the lane of o. w.
Mason and regular meetings for rifle
practice will be held Saturday after
noons. FOREST C1TV.
V. I Teterson. J. J. Walker and R.
E. Randall visited the fire departments
at Plttston, Taylor and Scranton on
Saturday. The Hillside Fire company
expects to purchase a new hose wagon
In the near future. The above nameu
gentlemen were appointed to visit the
different departments mentioned above
with a view of purchasing the latest
and best apparatus in use.
Mr. A. E. H. Wheeler, of Jackson, Is
Visiting relatives in the borough.
A team belonging to Mr. Howard
JohnB ran away on Delaware street on
Tuesday morning. No serious damage
was done.
Fred Jennings, one of The Tribune
carriers, is unable to attend to his
duties on account of sickness.
Mr. Fred Piatt, accompanied the Hill
side surveyors here on Friday, for the
purpose of staking out a lot suitable
for the erection of a new electric light
plant. The plot chosen Is situated on
South Hudson street behind what is
commonly known as the "old rock
dump." Work will be commenced on
the foundations In a few days. The
work of putting in poles will be com
menced tomorrow and Mr. Piatt ex
pects to have the poles In position and
the wires placed on them in the course
of two weeks.
Commencing Dec. 14. the Enterprise
Hose company will hold a Rainbow fair
and social in the Davis' opera house. A
number of valuable articles will be dis
posed of. The fair will commence on
the 14th and will be continued until
the 19th.
Miss Jessie Long, of Scranton, re
turned home yesterday after a two
weeks' visit with her sister, Mrs. M. D.
Evans.
OLYP1IANT.
J. J. Salman's young generation of
comedians will present "A scene in the
Old Twin Shaft" at the Father Mathew
Opera house Saturday night. An af
ter piece entitled "An Electric Shock"
will be produced.
Miss Nellie Curran. of Scranton, Is
the guest of Miss Mary Carbine.
The Club of '9" will hold their sec
and annual social in their rooms on
New Years' night. Extensive prepara
tions are being made for the event.
N. L, Kennedy returned Monday to
resume his studies at Wyoming Sem
inary, after spending the week with his
parents on the West Side.
Miss Mamie Saltry, of Providence, Is
visiting relatives at this place.
Mrs. C. O. Sutton and sister. Miss
Lou Hughes, have returned home after
a visit with their parents at Wyom
ing. Mr. nnd Mrs. Edward Mahonry have
returned to their home In Owego, after
spending the past week with Dr. and
Mrs. A. F. Crans.
Mrs. John MrT.oughlin spent yester
day at Green Ridge visiting relatives.
TAYLOR.
A special meeting of the scholars and
choir of the Methodist Episcopal church
will be held In the' lecture room of the
church on Friday evening of this week
for the purpose of organizing a cantata
which wlil be held on Christmas eve.
The Christmas day eisteddfod, which
will be conducted In Weber's rink un
der the auspices of the Anthracite Glee
club, is attracting widespread interest.
There will be competitions for a party
of mixed voices, chorus for juvenile
choir, quartette, duet, soprano, tenor,
and baritone solos, solos for children
under fifteen years of age. There will
also be competitions in recitations, fe
males as well as males. The outlook is
very favorable, as they expect as high
as five choirs to compete on the chief
competition. The secretary Is Morgan
B. Morgans, Main street. Admission,
single session, 35 cents, and (or the
season, 50 cents.
Mr. Thomas Carey, of Scranton, was
a Taylor visitor yesterday.
Thomas Jones and William Richards
are making arrangements to cross the
briny ocean.
The Taylor Water company are bus
ily engaged digging trenches for the
water mains through Grove street.
puiceblkg.
Loretta. the S-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Lark, of Carmalt
Blreet.ls 111 of typhoid fever.
The Priceburg social and dancing
class met last Monday evening with
increased membership. This is some
thing new in the line of enjoyment
and pastime for our young folks and
Messrs. McLaughlin and Kane are to
be complimented for the excellent man
ner In which it is conducted. Class
meets each Monday evening In Smith's
music hall.
Master John Cooper, of Albert street,
Is suffering from an attack of diph
theria. The grand festival and fair of the
Eagle Hose company. No. 1, will com
mence Dec. 18, and close on Christmas
eve. A door prize will be given each
evening. Admission ten cents.
MINOOKA.
Grocer Higglns was a business caller
In Plalnsville yesterday.
The cold wave of the past few days
has covered the new pond In a way that
pleases our enthusiastic skaters.
Miss Mamie Cahlll. of Plttston vis
ited friends In this place yesterday.
The Independents conducted a well
attended dance at Taylor rink last
evening.
Martin MeCrea Is dangerously ill.
DISINFECTED KISSES.
Scicnco Comes to the Aid of Love and
Takes the Sting Out of Pleasure.
From the St. Louis Republic.
The gratitude of lovers is due Dr.
Hurty, of the Indiana state board of
health, for extricating the sting of fear
from the kiss of love.
Scientists have been trying to dis
courage the pleasant practice of sip
ping the nectar from the lips of love
and beauty by intimating that mixed
with the honey were swarms of horrid
bacteria that were likely to give the
sippers any kind of an old thing in
the way of complaints from a bad cold
to a case of diphtheria.
Although we believe that there arp
lovers who will tell the scientists and
their bacteria to go to blazes and will
take theic nectar at the risk of ufe and
limb, yet the information is disturb
ing and tends to embitter the honey
and take the edge off the relish. Theru
is a fly In the precious ointment of
love's delight, and the courts of sweet
dalliance are haunted by the specters
of the sick room.
But Dr. Hurty has shown how all of
these spectres may be driven away and
mortal men may again revel in the
sweets of the ruby Up, as they did in
the old days when ignorance was bliss.
He says all that is necessary to make
kissing healthful is to carfeully wash
the mouth with a disinfectant before
indulgence In the luxury.
This simplifies matters for lovers. All
they need to do Is to make free use of
disinfectants and they can hit the ilps
as often as they please. Of course, the
first question when a man calls on his
sweet love will be, "Have you disinfect
ed?" and if the answer Is mutually
satisfactory and we presume if it is
not a bottle of disinfectant will be han
dythen carbolized lips may meet car
bolized lips In a dream of bacterlalers
bliss.
Thus romance, with the aid of science,
survives, somewhat battered, but alive,
the march of progress.
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
The Doinjs f a Swindler With a $10
Check.
VERDICT OF A JURY CAUSES INSANITY
A Few Conatr Haps and .Mishaps.
Railroad Dots Along the LineThe
The Cabinet Makers favor Mr.
Grow Tor Secretary of the Interior.
Discussion at the Farmer' Iti
tute. Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, Dae. 1. On Thanks
giving Day a young man named H.
Hetfeld. alias H. Conun. arrived In
town, and, calling at the Presbyterian
parsonage, represented to the pabtor,
Kev. D. I. Sutterland. that he was a
"converted Jew," nnd was endeavoring
to get froi.i New York, where he had
been employed, to Buffalo, where .-e
resided. Ho proved himself an excel
lent Hebiew scholar, and out of pity
the reverend gentleman boarded him at
a hotel for two days, while he "heard
from Buffalo." On Saturday morning
there came to Hetfeld, In care of the
clergyman, a telegram, stating that
funds had been sent him by mall. In a
few hours a letter followed, enclosing a
$10 check. The letter thanned Mr. Sut
terland for his kindness and gave Het
feld some good advice. Without en
dorsement of course the check was
valueless, but Mr. Sutterland accom
panied the young man to the City Na
tional bank, where he endorsed the
check, which was cashed. Hetfeld was
told by Mr. Sutterland, In the pres
ence of the bank olllcers, that if he
proved to be a swindler he would be
placed behind prison bars. In the
meantime the Buffalo bank upon which
the check was drawn was wired, and
soon the answer came that the maker
of the check had no funds to hM credit.
Hetfeld eluded the vigilance of Mr.
Sutttrlund and walked to Great Bend,
nine miles distant, where he was ar
rested by Officer Storebach, of Susque
hanna, us he was purchasing a ticket
for Binghamton. He was brought to
this place and locked up. He was
brought before Justice Williams on
Monday, when he made a confession.
In collusion with his wife, who In
Buffalo, he has been swindling clergy
men and others throughout the coun
try. He wrote the letter and fo-"ed
the check. In default of ball he wa
on Monday taken to th? county jail nt
Montrose by Chief McMahon to await
the action of the grand Jury.
WHO CAN HE BE?
The Binghamton Herald Is author
ity for the statement that "Susque
hanna contains a newspaper man who
has a national reputation for writing
stories of the most imaginative sort.
It is said he takes opium and has
dreams from the effects of the drug,
and when he comes to himself again
places on paper the wild fancies that
Hashed through his brain while he was
under the Inlluence of the opiate. The
originality and improbability of the
stories make them interesting reading."
WHAT A VEKDICT DID.
William Moon, of Liberty township,
whose suit against that township for
damages, occupied the attention of our
county court for several duys, has be
come Insane In consequence of the ver
dict, wnich was against him. He
drove off and unprotected embankment
and received permanent Injuries of a
serious nature.
COUNTY HAPS AND MISHAPS.
Great Bend has two quarantined
cases of diphtheria.
It is said that there are ten candi
dates for county medical pension ex
aminer. The olilce is worth from $4U0
to $6U0 per year.
Hallstead hns a newly-organized Cos
mopolitan Building and Loan associa
tion. Near Great Bend, two Lawsville
hunters in two days killed forty-five
partridges.
Messrs. Charles L. Crook, Richard A.
Barber and John Maynard are candi
dates for the Hallstead postmastership.
"And there are others."
The Susquehanna county Pomona
Grange will meet in Springviile on
Wednesday nnd Thursday next.
And now New Mill'ord has the weath
er signal service. She ought to have
many other desirable things. One of
the prettiest villages in Northern Penn
sylvania, for years she has endured a
series of business disasters of various
kinds, enough to discourage any com
munity. And still her people never say
die, but continue hopeful of better
duys ahead. May she Boon realize
them!
UA1LROAD DOTS.
Delaware and Hudson Conductor
Kenwnrthy, of Carbondale, who lost a
leg at Forest City on Thursday. Is
gradually recovering from his injuries.
A large delegation of Susquehanna
railroad men were In Cnrbondnle on
Sunday, attending the union meeting
of the Brotherhood.
Some engineers on the Delaware div
ision of the Eri3 have forty days to
their credit In November.
Every rnilrond organization In Sus
quehanna is In a llouriahini condition.
PURELY POLITICAL.
Our State Senator lion E. B. Har
drnbergh, wrote to the Philadelphia
Times on Thanksgiving day: "My
thanks are due because I nm not a
candidate for the 1'nlted States senate
nnd nm not likely to be."
After the political cyclone. Brier
Haines, of the Honesdale Independent,
rises from the wreckage of "ruined
hopes nnd blasted ambitions," safe in
the possesion of the postotflce for his
new building. All things to those who
wait!
Some of the cabinet makers hnve ar
ranged to place our own Golusha A.
Grow In the ofllce of secretary of the
Interior. The major might do worse.
Wayne county's forcnv.st politician,
the unique Sarah I'lrich Kelly, files her
claims for a cabinet position. Give a
fut job to Sarah by all means. Then
perhaps dear old Wayne will stop vo
ciferating year in and year out for a
congressman.
HOME EVENTS.
The funeral of Mrs. Charles Woodruff,
an old und esteemed resident, occurred
from the family residence on Sunday
afternoon.
A lodge of the Daughters of Rebekah
will be instituted on Saturday evening,
with over one hundred charter mem
bers. Carl Weirs, formerly of Susquehanna,
son of Master Mechanic C. P. .els.
of the Erie's shops, In Hornellsviae, is
with the Cuban army, assisting In
working a Gatling gun.
The national board of underwriters
has offered a reward of $200 for the
conviction of the parties who recently
fired the barn of Frank Andrews, on
the Ooakland side of the river.
In Herrick Center on Thursday last,
by Rev. T. J. Vaughn, Dr. A. L. Craft
and Miss Clara Patterson were united
in marrluge. The bride was until re
cently a popular teacher In the Susque
hanna graded schools.
Can It be possible that Susquehanna's
postal telegraph station Is sidetracxed
somewhere? So soon done for, what
was it begun for?
The Dolawnre and Hudson and the
Erie coal trains arc keeping the Jeffer
son branch rails red hut.
OTHER THINGS.
In New York, recently, In the Princeton-Yale
foot ball game, the public
paid $47,153,50 to see twenty-two shock
headed young men kick a pig skin
through the mud for a brief period.
And yet some people tell about the
terrible stringency of the money market.
THE OLD WAY
Of Treating Dyspepsia and Indices,
tioa by Dieting a Earburona and
I elek Oar.
We say the old way. but really It Is
a very common une at present time and
many dysepUcs and physicians as well
consider the first step to take In at
tempting to cure indigestion is to diet,
either by selecting certain foods and
rejecting others or to greatly diminish
the quantity usually taken, in other
words the starvation plan is by many
supposed to be the first essential.
The almost certain failure of the star
vation cure for dysepsla has been
proven time and acain, but still the
moment Dyspepsia makes its appear
ance a course of dieting is at once
advised.
All this is radically wrong. It Is
foolish and unscientific to recommend
dieting or starvation to a man suffering
from Dyspepsia, because Indigestion
Itself starves every organ and every
nerve and every fibre in the Itody.
What the Dyspeptic wants Is abun
dant nutrition, which means plenty of
good, wholesome, well-cooked food and
something to nssist the weak stomach
to digest It. This is exnetly the pur
pose for which Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
lets are adapted and this is the method
by which they cure the worst cases of
Dyspepsia, in other words the patient
gets plenty of wholesome food and Stu
art's Dyspepsia Tablets digest it for
him. In this way the system is nour
ished and the overworked stomach rest
ed, because the tnblets will digest the
food whether the stomach works or not.
na of these tablets will digest 3,000
grains of meat or eggs.
our druggist will tell you that Stu
art's Dyspepsia Tablets is the purest
and safe st remedy sold for stomach
trcubles und every trial makes one
more friend for this excellent prepara
tion. Sold at Mots, for full sized puck
age at all drug stores.
Clergymen Inform us that the "ad
vance agent of properity" has already
arrived, and is gringing In the weld
ings. In the language of the evangel
ist, "let the good work go on."
Thanks to the new marriage law In
York state, Pennsylvania couples no
longer sneak across the line and get
tied on the dead quiet, at Job rates.
Rev. Ace is holding revlvul meetings
In Brooklyn, this county. The rever
end gentleman is probably never called
"Mr. One Spot."
COWS TAILS AND SKUNKS.
Over In Canton, the recent Farmers'
Institute discussed the very Important
question, whether the length of the
bone in the cow's tail indicates the
length of time she will be In milk.
Instances were related wh.'re the best
milkers In an entire herd were picKed
out by a stranger, who Judged quite
largely by the tail. This settled, J.
Benson Wright, in speaking of skunks,
advanced the opinion that they were
the farmer's friends; that their food
was of grubs, wire worms, etc., and
that the average farmer could better
afford to suffer the occasional loss of
an egg than to have the skunks for
sake the farm. This opinion was con
curred in by others who hud noted the
habits of the little animal. In other
words, the skunk is the farmer's
strongest friend.
MERELY MENTIONED.
Sign all of the pustolllce petitions.
It requires little time and labor and
you will make fast friends of all the
candidates. It's a good deal like giv
ing away something that doesn't be
long to you. You get a reputation for
generosity and it doesn't cost you any
thing. This reminds us that we wouldn't
give a picayune or a petition as long
as a ladder, signed bv Tom, Did. and
Harry, if we didn't have a pull to go
with it. It would be worse than a
talless kite.
The writer knows a man who de
sired to be postmaster. Upon ins peti
tion were the names of about thr?e
fourth of the residents of the town,
Democrats and Republicans the chair
man of the county committee, the edi
tor of the county paper of his party, a
justice of the state supreme court, the
the chairman of the state committee,
etc., and so forth. Another man had
the watermelon. And so it goes,
a pull. The man with the pull carvc-d
the names of a few business r.'.en and
The Lehigh Valley road has aban
doned the experiment in the use of
soft coal for the locomotives of pas
senger trains. The Lehigh's standing
advertisement "No Dust, No Cinders,"
again means something. Through pas
sengers hate soft coal as the devil
hatts holy water. Whitney,
AMERICAN MANNERS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is claimed by many perxons that In
the hiirlyburly of this wurkailo) wo"lil
of ours ihe American man Is fast losing
h!s obl-t Imp courtesy of manner. The
extreme tension upon which the business
of Ihe country Is carried on. they elulin,
prevents men from paying the name at
tention to the little niceties of life which
they have clone in the past. While this
is doubtless true of many men, our crlll. s
seem to have made a mistake in ualnif the
word "m:ii;ncts" Instead of "ceremony,"
There is no question that the Americans
It U often difficult to convince peo
ple their blond is impure, until dread
ful carbuncles, abscesses, boils, scrof
ula or suit rheum, tiro painful proof of
the fact. It is wisdom now, fir when
ever there is any indication of
blood, to tnko Hood's Ssirsapanlla, and
prevent Mich eruptions iintl suffering.
"I 1iad a dreadful carbuncle abscess,
red, fiery, fierce and sore. The doctor at
tended me over seven weeks. When the
abscess broke, the pains wero terriblc.and
I thought I should not live through it. I
heard and read bo much about Hood's
Earsaparilla, that I decided to take It, and
my husband, who was suffering with
boils, took it also. It soon purified our
built tne up and restored my health bo
that, although the doctor said I would
not bo able to work hard, I have since
done the work for 20 people. Hood's Snr
saparilla cured my husband cf the bolls,
and we regard it a wonderful medicine.'1
Mrs. Anna Petkhson, Latimer, Kauaaa.
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1.
liji r!ii curcliverplKensytotake,
nOOa S KlIIS easy to operate, cents.
Imp
fiiioocl
THE DICKSON MANUFACTURINGCO
SCRANTON AND WILKES-BAR RC PA, Manufacturer of
Locomotives. Stationary Engines, Boilers,
KQlSTIKu tO POIN6 MACHINERY.
are as a race using less ceremony in their
social Intercourse now than they have
in the past; but that their manners are
degenerating admits of a doubt, Cere
monial Is almost altogether matter of lo
cality, differing In different places. That
which would be considered the proper
thing in one plxce would be conspicuous
In another. The Innate good manners
which denote a perfect gentleman' are
found everywhere. The farther away wa
get in our Boeial development from a
monarchical court and Its custom the less
ceremonial we nnd: In Its place are to he
found simplicity and absence of form,
through which true politeness shines us
brightly as ever.
However, this abandonment of eere
monlul has In a Kreat measure made It
very diltlcult to apply any fixed standard
of manners, or to Kay that the omission
or commission of any particular act
proves a person to have been ill-bred.
Wc are now far more apt to go to the
other extreme and condemn as "b.id
form" that which was once considered
essential in a well-bred man or woman.
This disuse of ceremonial comes from
the American theory that all men are
created equal; for In the European coun
tries, which are governed by a very re
strictive uoVleiy, the deference to titular
superiors is the vary foundation of the
soeial code and this code permits an a.--reogance
to supiiosed Inferiors which
would never be tolerated In this country.
In our pronounced democracy such a show
of respect would be considered as "toady
ing." Another cause of th,1 decline of the lit
tle courtesies is the advent of the type
known as the "New Woman." who, glory
ing In her newly found Independence,
scorns the helping hnnd of her escort as
being childish and weak. After having
been snubbed several times n man natur
ally doei not olTer that which is so evi
dently not wanted.
The advent of women Into business life
would naturally have a tendency to do
away with much of the formalism of
clden tisie.i; but If a poll could be t:itcn
nf ail Ihe stenographers and office clerks
it nilfiht be easily shown that they are
treated with the same pollieivss which it
is the custom of every American man to
show toward a woman, whether lu Ids
employ or not. The truest pi,lHiiess end
chivalry are not always clothed in the
most polished exterior. It does not al
ways take fine clothes and a mind (tiled
with the small things of life to make a
true gentleman.
As the control of society has passed
out of the hands of the few who hud the
leisure to devote to the cultivation of
ceremonial, and as in this country there
Is no stigma on being "in trade," man
ners are not a neee.Jsary adjunct to
soeial success. They have not, however,
been neglected; In a certain way they
are more Important now than they have
ever been In the past, because those who
have sprung from the ranks and achieved
wealth quickly, without having either
birth or breeding at the start, are anxious
to acquire a seeming familiarity with the
customs and usages of polite society, and
to be recognized as being on an equality
with those possessing them. Thus upon
caretul Investigation one comes to tho
conclusion that as a race the American
people are Just as careful of their man
ners as they have ever been, but that as
we have grown older as a nation nnd
farthtr from the customs which our an
cestors brought from monarchlal coun
tries the ceremonial fashioned after court
practices has fallen Into disuse.
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