The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-19
LittIe GentIefolks.


Little GentIefOlks.
gentleman" she began, thought
"What does that mean, Ralph %
know. The teacher said it was
hat 1t sounds, a man who is gentle
ce in his ways, polite to the girls
Id women, and$never says rude
nor tries to cheat in croquet or
3s. Is that all, auntie ?"
doesn't all lie in being gentle, :"
ID the old lady, "nor yet in being
teel man, as some folks think it
1t is more than being kind and
or nice in manners or clothes,
l they all belong to it. tits, first
to be a man-manly. At the
I the notion of a gentleman lies
a Of being strong, useful, pro
man; and nothing else has the
it to make a gentleman. In the
ne, when the world was divided
go classes, gentles and common
there were very strict lines for
mer."
j., if 1 could only find them now p
Ralph. "The rules to make a
oan Are they written any
BY were never written, that I know
: they were handed down from
0 son, and never laws were obeyed
lily as these. We know enough
i to be sure that the standard of
eman in those days did not in
Kings differ from what it should
ny. And there is no reason why
BOY should not carry in his heart
less code of honor as a plumed
)red Knight of st. John"
re are no knights now," said
q little sadly.
not so sure Of that. Things go
king, nowadays, more than by
:; but they call for the same
y qualities Of courage and endur-
at rode forth with spear and crest
field of battle. What do you
as knights first duty? To fight
true cross. The next was to serve
lg and country. Mr.. Ralph's
s the same to-day-always be-
in God and His truth, and,
you believe in it and cannot
working for it and defending it.
the day of your death there will
ething to do for your country.
list watch, that bad principles do
ep in, or bad men get control, and
lst count no tax of time OF money
eat to keep things what they
be for you and those who come
Oh. This will be your work be-
any years, even If you never have
out with rife and saber to really
as your brothers had to. When
zen or careless men say, as they
wing now about many things,
is not exactly what ought to be
it is not doing fairly by what we
to protect, but it is the easiest
get along, there must be one
0 say, No, the right way is the
in the end, and the only way, if
lly my little Ralph, larger grown.
Ntter if you are only one for the
Say your word as becomes a
The rest may see it and be
led; but, at least, you will have
heart and your conscience clean.
he knights vow was to succor all
were oppressed, to right all wrongs
b he came across, and to help all
stood in need. If a knight came
/ any deed of cruelty or injustice, he
d not say, It's no affair of mine-I
It Interfere. [ may get into trouble
t and get hurt. 1t was his particu-
to interfere, and, when he
q creature tortured, or found cap
in prison unlawfully, or knew of in
offered to woman, a child's inner
ce taken from it, or child stolen
4 it's parents, as happened in those
Il days, he was dis8raced if he did
so at once, with his good lance and
men, and set things right. What he
not strong enough to do he besought
brother knights to aid him in doing;
to refuse this appeal would have
a knight his honors and his sover.
Is favor.
For a man to draw back from danger
y called 10 it, was a disgrace; to tel
was deep disgrace /; to take a bride
low himself to be influenced by feal
avor was to be unworthy the spurs
wore, and the society OF othel
gifts. [ don't see why you coulC
be little Knight of st. John, Ralph.
Vide drake.