Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1885 — Everyday Politeness. [ARTICLE]

Everyday Politeness.

It is astonishing how many people there are in the world who do not know intuitively what common politeness dictates; but still more astonishing how many there are who, knowing what it dictates, do not seem to reflect that in discarding the rules of politeness they indirectly sacrifice tHemselves by ignoring rules deduced for the comfort of all from the experience of mankind; for the purpose, first of all, to prevent mankind treading on each other’s toes, and then, in the higher grade, to make their pathway through life pleasant. Trifles, it is said, make np the sum of life; but, paradoxically, nothing is, therefore, a trifle that goes to make up a sum which, for the most favored of mortals, may, indeed# be in excess of his deserts, but which is for any one never absolutely great. It is only by making the fund of comfort. a great tontine that men, women, and children can secure the full amount of whatever life has in it of possible enjoyment. — Philadelphia, Telegraph. '