The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-26
GOOD-BREEDING.
Public Manners of Our People at the Cen
tennial.


Public Manners of Our People at the Cen
tennia1.
The manners and opinions Of the Wis
itors to the Exhibition furnish goo(
deal of interest In themselves. The oc
cupants of rolling chairs are unmistaka
bly, the objects of slight scorn to those
on foot, akin to the superciliousness o
early risers. And, notwithstanding
hundreds OF daily instances to the con
trary, the pedestrians are evidently per
suaded that everybody In chair is the
victim of some strange manning OF
malady, about which they cannot con,
ceal their curiosity. The interest taken
in any purchase by the bystanders is sc
intense as to be painful to the purchaser.
A ring forms Immediately round the
latter and the vendor, which increases
momentarily, until the transaction is
over, all hanging speechless on the dia-
logue between the two. When this is
carried on in a foreign language the
audience looks 1iscomfted and dis
pleased, as if baked of It's rights. A
lady acquaintance told me that Just as
her purchase was concluded and the
article replaced in the case. so that it
became indiStinguishable among it's fel-
lows, q stranger of her own sex arrived
on the scene, and, seeing that it was toe
late, logged her until they reached
secluded spot III one of the less-fre
quented departments. Then she &C.
costed her, in low voice: "Yor
bought something just now" eyes.
"What was it," But this inquisitive
ness is generally sympathetic. I wit
messed the sale of an Indian shawl,
which the buyer was anxious to see i.
folded aud tried on. A couple of good
natured young Englishmen, evidently
novices In playing shopman, were help
lessly pulling it hither and thither whel
very nice-looking, middIe-aged woman
with an ardent gaze, stepped up from
the circle, took it from their hands, CAV
it in trice the proper twist, and then
turning about, deity threw it over he
own shoulders, and stood there on e1
hibition until everybody concerned @
not concerned was satisfied. That so,
of readiness to oblige is a characteristic
of our country folk; bnt, both abroa
and at home, it renders us liable to
imposed upon by foreigners, which is
be observed at the Exhibition in Il
conduct of the attendants. A frieI
who has been at more than one of II
European exhibitions recognized in Sc
eral of the departments men whom !
had seen at Paris or Vienna, where tn,
had been civility itself. Under the
fuence of our good humored democra
they have become extremely impertine1
On the other hand, tine misconduct
ones own country people has mo
pungent power of annoyance than th
of any other; and it was almost intole
able to see them handling articles t,
most easily broken or soiled with tot
disregard of the placards, where OF
would suppose to the commonesJ consi
Grafton placards would be superfuou
I wish I could have felt certain that Il
person who raped and shook every 3
ticle in the Chinese annex was not fl
low countryman. Unfortunately, the
could be no doubt of the nationality
a pair, male and female, like the fir
sinners, who, having broken down t.
protecting rope, were spreading the1
selves in their dusty clothes on Il
Gobelin sofas in the French department
atlantic Monthly.