Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1875 — Civility Meets With Civility. [ARTICLE]

Civility Meets With Civility.

In New York, where I tad frequently to make inquiries of pashers : by, I observed that the courtesy with Which they were answered was uot surpassed by the pofj'tessewith which a stranger’s appeals are usually responded to in the streets of Paris. A'young Englishman with whom I was acquainted was never weary of inveighing against the coarseness and unaccommodating spirit of “the Yankees,” which my own experience warranted me in discrediting. We drove together one morning in a cab to Salem, a pretty town about twelve miles from Boston, and were frequently under the necessity of applying to those we met, or to persons living on the roadside, for information or assistance in regard to the harness or vehicle in which we were embarked. In every instance the readiest and most obliging answers were given, and the most efficient help afforded. On each several occasion I appealed to my fellowtraveler: Waat will you say of that man?” “ Oh, that one was civil enough.” The next? “ Yes, he was very well.” Another? “ He was one of the better sort.’k Another and another to at least naif a dozen cases, in which he finally reconciled himself to his persistency of depreciation by the general remark: “ Ah, you have the luck to hit upon the good ones!” The simple fact being that civility meets with civility.— -William O'. Macready. When two young hearts that beat as one attend divine services in the evening, it is bashfulness that leads them to select a seat in the most obscure pew under the gallery.— Brooklyn Argue.