Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — GOOD MANNERS. [ARTICLE]

GOOD MANNERS.

Not to Bo Pat On and Off Like ClotMng, Says Amber. Good manners are not put on and of! like varying fashions; they are the essential, everyday clothing of the soul, and should be liable to no fluctuations of season, time or place. There are certain things that show ill-breeding, 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 “ing," 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 lady. The boy or man who slouches in his gait, chews and expectorates in public places, ogles women on the street, swears without cause, retails smutty jokes, calls his father the “old man,* and makes fun of his mother’s religion, though he wears broadcloth and sprays himself with the ehoioest perfumery, will never pass muster in the ranks *vf gentlemen. True ladyhood is as discernible as the plumage of a bird or the fragrance of a flower. All the jackdaw* sh 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 of shams and hypocrisy, a low voice, quiet dress, -in absolute refusal to join 'ln the-laugh that causes the diecomflture ot a fellow creature, make up the *«■»« .'oda of good mauuers the world o»er.