Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1910 — He Lacked Repose. [ARTICLE]

He Lacked Repose.

Mrs. William Ellis Corey, In the foyer of New York's Millionaires' theater, compared metropolitan with provincial manners. manners,” she said, “are distinguished by repose. Provincial manners are noisy. When I think of the naive provincial girl in the calm and cultivated society of Paris, London ,or New York, I am irresistibly reminded of a little Chicago boy. To polish the provincial girl is Just as hard as }t was to put a polish on Hte Chicago lad. It was Christmas tii}e, and a Urge and distinguished party was invited to the boy’s house for dinner. He was drilled in manners for the occasion. He was especially warned to be silent “ ‘Promise not to speak till you are asked a question,’ said his mother. And this the boy solemnly promised .to do. “At dinner he was full of curiosity and animation, turning big interested eyes on eyery face, and the fish course had arrived without a word or sound from him. By that time, however, his patience was exhausted, and he cried to his mother peevishly: “ ’Say, mamma, when are yon going to start to-questioning mej* ”