Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — Ill-Mannered English Dowagers. [ARTICLE]

Ill-Mannered English Dowagers.

A writer in an English newspaper has uttered a wail concerning the degeneracy of the age, says the now York Sun, and cites examples ot the great falling off in manners in what are generally called in Great Britain the upper circles to prove it. If naif ho says is true he makes out a very good case. He asserts that in London ball-rooms one finds the chaperons, ladies often of mature years, struggling for seats like so many foot-ball men in a scramble. He objects t> what he call: “their calm insolence and their tricks and devices to get the better of one another.” He alleges that a couple of dowagers will, when seated on each side of a third, talk across her for an hour cr more so eagerly that their chins almost meet in front of the sufferer. Dowagers have offended him seriously. The critic notices the recent stringent rules at the Queen’s drawing-rooms, and says that they were necessary. Nothing milder, in his opinion, wou d check the crowding and pushing which have now converted the scene of a great state ceremonial int > a lively beargarden. Then there is the ill-mannered chrtter with which occupants of stalls and boxes at the theaters interrupt the performance. This censor of public manners tindi that the most hopeless feature is the behavior of the rising generation.

•U’Bd'Bp UJ sfofl UB >|.IUUIV The first American boys who visited Japan were set ashore with great ceremony near the city of Yeddo, or Tokio, on Thursday, July 14, 1t53. They woie the uniform of the United States navy, and every gilt button and buckle was polished till it shone like gold. They carried between them a large square enve ore of scarlet cloth, containing two beautiful round Ijoxes made of gold, each box inclosed in a larger box of rosewood, witjr locks, hinges, and mountings all trade of pure gold. Each of the gold bcxes contained a letter to the Emperor of Japan, beautifully written on vellum and not folded, butSoound in pure silk velvet. To each letter the great seal of the United States was attached with cords of interwoven gold and silk,with oendent gold tassels. The names of these hoys are not known to the writer, but it would not be surprising if some young American should to the Young People. “My father was one of heee boys.’—Harper's Young People.