Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — Giving Lessons in Politeness. [ARTICLE]

Giving Lessons in Politeness.

Hon. W. J. Hendricks, of Frankfort, Ky., tells the following: He was sitting in his office at Flemingsburg one day, when his collored ®fflce-boy came shufflingin with his hat on, singing, “Dar’s one mo’ ribber to cross.” He was impressed by the boy’s want of politeness, and said to him, “Look’ee here, sir, that’s no way to enter my office. You need a lesson in behavior. Now you take a seat in my chair, and act just as if you were proprietor—just as I do, and I will go out and come in just as you should do,’’whereupon he laid down hi« cigar and went out the door. In a moment he returned, and there sat Jim with his feet pitched up on the table, a copy of the revised statutes of the United States open in his lap and the half smoked cigar in his mouth, and his hat cocked down over one eye. The aesthetic teacher entered quietly with his hat in his hand, but had not fairly gotten in the room before Jim looked up and said: “Jack, you d—d rascal, pick up dat spittoon, clean it quick, and den come in heah, sah, and black my boots—do you heah?” Jim was kicked out, but very shortly afterwards reinstated.