Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — Public Politeness. [ARTICLE]

Public Politeness.

oming up town, and entered the vhich five elegantly-dressed and ng women were sitting on each They might be the lady paof some society. There was • another person on each side, one of those women moved to ax for me, and I rode a mile or ile these ten women—l do not —declined to give me a seat, as 1 have done any moment withv or crowding. The most of re probably mothers. But as ict of good manners—that is, ess, which is simply the law ss—was not in the breast of 3 ten, what is to be expeoted of Iren ? They cannot teach what not know, and, as they know ,f politeness, their children will to the omnibus again fora saminners, I opened the door to ae other day, when a boy took r > of mv holding it open, i and took the only vacant seat, lat he got the start of me and eat. This was young America The great Athenian philosothat democracy has the found- ~ re principle that one man is as another, if not a little better. / wise men have insisted that goverment tends to destroy for superiors and deference to lich are essential elements of mners. “In honor preferring or,” is the inspired religion of fc one of the highest virtues. It here there is no virtue. And iy the politest nations are the . nor that it is impossible to get ud power, and all that, with rs of a pig. The very trait of which the “gintleman who • rint” exhibits when he foot into the trough to keep iy while he eats, is the trait of o suoceed in getting much Jut there is a better way. And iy that has few walking in it, y of ours. Joston Girl in Chicago, iat I am very far from Boston, that I am many miles nearer iat separates civilization from of savages. And into these olitudes I have brought a volerbert Spencer to refresh and mind. He always fascinates; >ct of his being still unmarried fching to do with it, for you s i re is a halo surrounding the; which marriage utterly debs in most philosophical ques- < useless to ask why this is so.: ily observe the working of the a, but not its cause. But ’ Spencer I never tire. His ideas > her life are so consoling—the ont frond? an “indefinite, inhomogeneity to a definite, heterogeneity.” What could r more conclusive ? Perhaps te mind might be staggered by d combination of polysyllables, o are cultivated can appreciate • 3 significance of a definite, heterogeneity. His ideas of ever, are not extravagantly ch romance. Suppose that a tender eyes and ravfen-hued having seated himself by your id tenderly take yoiir hand in ten assure in fervent tones that ;ious ot a molecular change in ar nerve matter of his system, comitant is love, and that you .ernal object which has caused Would an ice bath be more An hysterical woman would lift ‘up her voice and shriek ■ wonder that Herbert Spencer - to the age of sixty without