Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1914 — Social Courtesy. [ARTICLE]

Social Courtesy.

If we quarreled with all the people* who abuse us behind our backs, and began to tear their eyes out as soon as* we set ours on them, what a life It would be, and when should we have any quiet? Abuse me and 1 will abuse* you; but let us be friends when wej meet. Have not we all entered a« dozen rooms, and been sure, from the: countenances of the amiable persons' present that they had been discussing: our little peculiarities, perhaps as wej were on the stairs? Was our visit*, therefore, the less agreeable? Did we quarrel and say hard words to one another's facet? No —we wait tin soma* of our dear friends take their leave* and then comes our turn. My back is* st my neighbor's service; as soon sat that la turned Ist him make what* faces he thinks proper; hot when ww meet we grin and shake hand. Ilka, well-bred folk, to whom clean linen tar not more necessary than a cleans sweet looking countenance and * nicely gotup smile for company. t