Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1919 — LETTERS FROM OUR READERS [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Why Is It Thus? The Democrat is in reecipt of the following communication from a reader, a woman of advancing years: “Why are men not so good mannered as they used to be? Formerly no gentleman smoked in any assemblage where there .-were ladis, but now it is impossible to get near enough to hear the band or to enjoy the movies without getting smoke in your face from half a dozen sources:, pipe, cigar and cigarette, all mixed. “Is the reason found in the fact (if it is a fact) that women, by their free and easy behavior, have forfeited the deference unen used to accord them or have men become so essentially selfish that they regard no one’s comfort but their own? I wonder and wonder, and still wonder, but it does not abate the nuisance.”