The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-02-02

| Aches and pains and indigesticns and
disasters of every kind and degree seem
| to be an invaluable boon for travellers
and an exhaustless spring of converse
ton. Charles Lambs friend, who
broke his long silence with the declara-
ton, when he saw the apple-dumplings,
''Them's the jockeys for me, is repro
duced in every way. A grave fellow
passenger, under cover Of conversation
with his neighbor, informs the company
that he cannot understand how people
can eat tripe. He can never eat tripe,
and never could. His stomach always
seemed to revolt at it, and always did.
Once he ate a piece of tripe without
knowing it, and he had an awful time in
consequence. He thought his very
1t is irresistably ludicrous. But the fell
low takes the company into the conf
dence of his stomach with all the gravi-
ty OF man who is imparting informa-
Mon. Or young woman suddenly
founces in her seat and throws up her
arms and exclaims to her fellow-tr
ers, through a companion, did you
ever know anything so hot? I'm
sitting. Can't you open this window?
Whew! whew! Oh dear it's dreadful,
isn't it? It's always so in these cars.
My! it's awfulr' On one occasion, when
this kind of remark had been made at
some length for the edification of the
company, voice was heard from the
other end of the car: "Yes'm it's awful.
But let's try to bear up. faint nothin'
to the sufferin's of the early Christians!'
A general laugh followed, and nothing
further was heard from that young
woman.
These ill-manners in public are a
form of selfshness and vanity. The es-
sence of good manners is a kind
thoughtfulness of others. The man
who goes to his room in hotel stamp
ing and talking through the corridor,
slamming his door, and singing his
~ brutality selfish. He is not aware
that he owes duties to other people who
will be affected by his conduct. He
does not think that he rudely awakens
some one to whom sleep is indespensi-
BILE, and whom he has no right to disturb.
Haydon's picture of the man in the
chop-house waiting for the Times, which
his neighbor has held for an hour, and
is evidently bent on holding until he has
read all the advertisements, is an illus
tration of this common selfishness. The
talk and conduct in the cars are gener-
ally signs of vanity or morbid self
Consciousness. A wsll-bred man keeps
his toothaches and headaches to himself,
and does not assume that strangers are
interested in his digestion. . A well-bred
woman keeps her children quiet and
does not assume that all her fellow
travellers must share her fondness for
them. II Mrs. P, with vivid
sense Of Mr.. P-'s peculiarities and
of her fine house and equipage, could
only once know how supremely unim-
portant any individual is, how well the
world Jared before Mr.. P arrived,
and how unshocked the universe will be
by his departure, she would be
modest and well-mannered woman.
That knowledge, indeed, would be
general corrective of manners. A certain
kind of personal conceit often accom-
panies undeniable superiority. There
are men, like Lord Chairman, who like
to have their goings and comings re-
garded as events, to move with
pompous hustle, and to be constantly
recognized as great men. But if they
could only know it, that very taste is
constantly accounted to them for weak
ness, and their influence is just SO far
lessened.-Harpe'''s Magazine.