Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1890 — GOOD MANNERS. [ARTICLE]

GOOD MANNERS.

Mae t» Be Put Ou and Off UMe OMtkp flay* Ambtr. Good manners are not put on and off like varying fashions; they are the essential, everyday clothing of the soul, and should be liable to no fluctuations of season, time or pi ace. There are oertain things that show 111-breedlng, and always will, until the bugle call of Gabriel sounds the reveille of the resurrection. The girl or woman who talks and laughs noisily in public places, drops the terminal of words ending in “tag," substitutes an “r“ for the final “w" In “fellow, ”. and makes use of that dreadful word “mash,” although she obeyed the standard book of etiquette to the letter, could never be mistaken for a 1 lady. The boy or mam wbo slouches in i his gait, chews and expectorates tfc pub- | Me places, ogles women on the street, ’ swears without cause, retails smutty 1 Jokes,' calls his father the “old man.* and makes fun of his mother’s religion, though he wears broadcloth and ffi>rtys I himself with the choicest perfumery, ! will never pass muster in the ranks of i gentlemen. True ladyhood is as discernible as the plumage of a bird or the fragrance of a flower. All the Jackdaws in the world might assert that they were orioles or cardinal birds; their feathers, to say nothing of their croak, would give them away every hour. Gentle, manners, willing service, fearless independence for the right, brave challenge es shams and hypocrisy, a low yoloe, I. quiet drees, an absolute refusal to min in the laugh that causes the discomfnptre of a fellow creature, make up the true code of good manners the world ovffir.