Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — What Culture Means. [ARTICLE]

What Culture Means.

There is a mistaken idea that ‘‘culture” means to paint a little, to sing a little, to dance a little and to quote passages from late popular books. As a matter of fact, culture means nothing of the kind. Culture means mqstery over self—politeness, charity, fairness, good temper, good conduct. Culture is not a thing to make a display of. It is something to use so modestly that, people do .not discover all at once that you I have it.