The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-11-03
MODEST MANNERS IN SCHOOL
4% GIRLS.

Under this heading j. Mahony frees
his mind in the October number of the
Chicago Schoolnsaster. We are not great
admirers of his style of expression, but
there is so much of the real school girl in
it that we feel constrained to place it be-
fore our readers He says -561
can article by Gail Hamilton, on the,
pronounce manners of our pu blic-school
girls, or young ladies, as they would call
o themselves, came recently to orr notice.
The talented writer. with masculine force
and feminine delicacy aud sense of pro
priety, dwelt upon the boisterous conduct
and glib conversation of such blossoms of
our system of public instruction as ride
back and forth in horse-cars and other
public conveyances. We sincerely wish
that the same article could be inserted in
all the school reading books throughout
the Union. It would have much more
weight with the misses than lnnumerable
lectures from their mothers and teachers,
to whose discourses on propriety the
damsels too often listen as they do to
thunder-because they are obliged to do
so. Such insertions, however, being i'm
practicable, the best we can do for the
thoughtless ones is to follow the course
of Gail Hamilton's ideas on the subject as
far as they coincide with our own ex
perience. The authoress justly observes
that woman's first duty is to be lady :;
and that the education which enables
female to calculate an eclipse, to solve a
problem IN algebra, or to show by severe
logic the difference between tweedle- dunn
and tweedle- dee, is worse than thrown
away upon one whose conversation and
manners attract the attention, and merit
the disapproval CT the most illiterate OBJ.
server. .ts2asa9ga ase@s
"We do not wish to use forcible
language, but the department of many
of our young ladies of the public schools
is, to say the least, a little peculiar when
they take possession of a portion ola Car
on their way to and from their institu-
tions of learning. No matter who. or
how many happened to be present; in
the presence of the Prince of Wales or
Handy Andy, of a judge or o ditch-dig
ger, their chatter concerning themselves
their opinions their acquaintance. and
expectations goes on Just the same. Their
teachers and students come in for an un-
usual share of their polite exposition.
"Never did a gang OF medical students
90 at subject with more elan, than do
these dissect the poor victims of school
girl criticism; and the scalpel of the sur.
geon is dull indeed in comparison with
the tongue-cieaving of a bevy of bloom
ing, book. loaded, young damsels. A fain
idea of their public performances may be
gained from the following snatches of
Conversation carried on in the loudest
tones and with selfcomplacency equal to
the effigy of Punch as tobacco sign +:
How do you like Mr.. Fairman, Fanny
sOh, adore him Fanny replies. 8
think he's horrid,' proclaims the first
speaker; can't bear old bachelors any
howp Il think Mr.. Swells is splendid,
he's so manly and careless in his actions,
and indifferent In his manner towards all
the girls I'd like to bring him down, l
tell your But he's so rakish looking,
Clssyr Il don't care Cissy replies, with
a spurt; Il like rakish looking men, and
ALWAYS did What do you think of
Miss Blarney?' another inquiries. ooh!
she's good enough, but SO soft, and so
sweet on Mr.. Fairman, that it makes one
sick to watch her. Say, Tilda, did you
hear the good joke got off on Mr.. Baine
to-day?' No, Molly; what was its' why,
he asked me if my curls were false, and
said, Shoe fly don't bodder met Wasn't
that good? First rate, Molly
"All this is delivered in the hearing
and for the benefit of the grinning con-
ductor and The ogling fop, the sneering
cynic, and the prowling reprobate, the
bewildered Teuton, who exclaims: Mem
Colt! was fur Fraulein! and the aston
ished Paddy, who whispers to neigh
Dor: Thin gurls havn't purity manners,
wild all their eddication;' and our pub
lie schools are judged accordingly.
1.-THE writer of this has seen strange
vicisstudes of life hardship and power
t. forced him into queer company. As
an apprentice to trade, he worked in an
atmosphere of swearing until he dreamt
profanity and calculated oaths inyolun-
tarlly. He has met railroad men, canal
men, and hackmen; he has waved
4h~o,,c,h on Irish riot. and pronounced