Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1919 — Good Manners—No Man Can Resist Their Influence Is Assertion of Authority [ARTICLE]

Good Manners—No Man Can Resist Their Influence Is Assertion of Authority

The power of manners is incessant — an element as unconcealable as fire. The nobility cannot in any country be i disguised, and no more in a republic or a democracy than in a kingdom. No man can resist their influence. There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that, if a person have them, he or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, wealth or genius. Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.has not the trouble of earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess. We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition to the boarding school, to the riding school, to the ballroom, or wheresoever they can come intq acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex; where they might learn address, and see it near at hand. The power of a woman of fashion to lead, and also to daupt and repel, derives from their belief that she knows resources and behavior not known to them; but when these her secret, the*- learn “to confront her, and recover their self-possession.— Ralph Waldo Emerson.