The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-06-10
IDAHO WORLD.
N0RTEFRN MANNERS IN THE SOUTH

MRS. d6ET1eC OeoCueE SCOW0S o"
TOMS Cabin, an own sister to the Rev. henry
Ward Beecher, gives the following sketcn ID
the Hearth and Home, of May LIST, OF the man
ners of tourists from from the North VINO nave
visited at and about her residence IN florida.
She says:
The Americans are the greatest travelling
nation in the world. 49,
srt;cla thew are. and are to be, in their essen.
t;aI habits. migratory race, and people Will
;ndoe of them much as they appear on the road;
for this reason it is to BE- regretted that when
thew mack their trunks for travelling they 80 Of
ten leave their ordinary good manners at home
with their superHuOus dresses. In other words,
It is to be regretted that people will allow
themselves when travelling, in extremes OF rude
ness and impertinence, which they would never
dream of perpetrating in the usual routine OF
good society. We have seen those who had
the air and manners of persons accustomed TO
move in good society, in certain respects VINO
yet appeared, when travelling, to be inspired
by sort of hilarious contempt for ordinary
decencies and proprieties, similar to that OF
grammar school-boys and college students when
off upon q lark.
We have seen great dealof this il. manners
on the part of both English and American peo-
Die while travelling in Europe. We nave seen
n party of 90 called gentlemen and ladies' OF the
Anglo Saxon race, armed with murray req
guide-bOoks, cooly going the rounds OF Catn-
Olic church, calling to each other IN auaiole
tones, criticlsing pictures and enunclating
scraps of history, while the most solemn serVl-
ces of the church were going on, and the inves-
LEGATIONS have been conducted by pushing over,
and through, and among wOrshippers, kneellng
in what thew considered the most solemn act
of their religion.
Granted that this devotion is On indolatrous
one. and that we know q more excellent way,
still does not the Apostles principle, ''Be court
eous," have some application in case like
this And does not the Italian who tolerates
these insults in spirit of gentleness and court
eous forbearance, prove himself 30 far forth,
the better Christian of the two!
Living where we do in Florida, just now, we
happen to be in State that has come to be
declared tramping ground for tourists. A great
deal has been said and written about Florida,
and the tide of fashion brings this way cease
less food of people, muny of whom, we regret
to say, in packing their trunks, have LETT out
that very pleasant article we alluded to, which
alone can make people agreeable and welcome
wherever they 60. The native F1orldians,
(sometimes called Crackers) while IN many
respects they live in great roughness and SIM
plicity, are, 80 far as we have observed them,
people of essential good manners. Go to see
them in their own homes, and you are always
kindly received. The best they have to give in
the house is offered freely. If you are belated
and must spend the night in q cabin, the only
bed will be freely vacated to the stranger. In
the same manner, if he calls to see yeu, he Is
simple and quiet; be confdes in your hospitali-
ty and good Intentions; he asks no impairment
questions, and goes his way in time, and does
not print any account of what ne has seen IN
paper We have never been in native Flori-
dams house without being offered something
as an expression of good will and kindness
most commonly glass of good milk, and flow
ers; and we must say that we are little
ashamed to put our Floridan friends alongside
many of the so-caled cultivated people who
are manifesting themselves to US from the
North.
We have the good or ill-fortune to live in an
orange grove but fifteen miles above Jackson
vile. Our family has had opportunity to make
some observations not very creditable to Nor
therR civilization.
Let us imagine ourselves now to be persons
in q country residence On the North rlver-say
at Peekskill or F;shkll-would it be consider
ed the thing to have an excursion party landed
opposite to you. and come up in full force and
take possession of the grounds opposite your
house, and thence send investigating parties to
look into the windows of your house, on the
north, on the south, on the east, and on the
west, shouting backward and forward to each
other any interior discoveries which they may
have made in these researches2 Yet this has
been practised in our case by parties of enter
prising tourists. An invalid gentleman reading
in the veranda is reused by the sight OF three
or four female noses fattened against the win
dow panes of his bed-chamber, apparently dis
cussing his private arrangements there. Rous
ing himself, he goes forth and requests the fair
inspectors to leave. They are indignant at his
want of politeness, and inform him that if Mrs
Stowe were there they would be treated very
differently. They have read Mrs. Stoves wri
tings, and heard the Rev. Henry Ward Beech
er preach, and if this does not give them IT,
tie to look into every window of the house
they should like to know what would
Then it is not very pleasant, retired as the
family usually are to the most secluded portions
of the house on these occasions, to hear the
various opinions shouted backward and for.
ward-as, for example, II don't see as this is
so very much of place after all; nothing here
but the orange grove, and the live oaks, and
the river view. It don't seem to me / should
want to live here"
Courteous reader, this last declaration was
the only pleasing one that caught our ear. Now
az the family habitually residing in the house