Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17
Railway Manners.

Aches and pains and indigestion and dis
tastes OF every kind and degree seem TO
be IN invaluable boon for travellers and IN
eXhaustess spring of conversation.
Charles Lambs friend, who broke his
long silence with the declaration, when
he saw the apple-dumplings. "Them's
tn jockeys for me- is reproduced in ev-
cry way. A grave fellow passenger, un-
der cover of conversation with his neigh
Dor, informs the company that he cannot
understand how people can eat trpe. He
can never eat tripe, and never could His
stomach always seems to revolt against it,
and always did. Once he ale piece of
tripe without knowing it, and he had IN
awful time in consequence. lie thought
his very 1t is ilrcsistably ludiclous.
But the fellow takes the company into the
conlidl nee of his stomach with all the
gravity of man who is imparting inter |
esting information. Or young woman
suddenly founces in her seat and throws
up her arms, and exclaims TO her fellow
travellers, through IL companion. "Did
you ever sec anything so hotP I'm sti-
fling. Can't you open this Window
Whew! whew! Oh dear! its dreadful.
isn't it? Its always ST. in these cars. My!
its awfnlH On one occasion, when this
kind of Il remark has been made at some
length for the ediiicalion of the company,
II voice WAS head from the other end Of
The ear, " Yps'm. it's awful But let's try
to bear up. faint no;hin 10 the suffer-
ms of the eally Christians" A general
laugh followed, and nothing further was
heard from that young woman.
These il-mannrrs in public are II form
of selfshnpss and vanity. The essence of
good manners is kind thoughtGulness of
others. The man who goes 10 his room
in hotel stamping and talking through IL
corridor, slHmmng his door, and tlinging
his b00,s heavily down upon the floor is
merely brulally selfish. lie is not aware
that he owes duties to other people who
will he affected by his conduct He does
not think that he rulely awakens some
one TO whom sleep is Indispensable, and
whom he has no right TO disturb Hay
don's picture OF the man in the chop-housp
waiting for the Times, which his neighbor
has hell for an hour, and is evidently bent
upon holding until he has read AL the adj
vellisemcnts, is an illustration Of this COM
mon stlislness.
The talk and conduct in the cars are
generally signs of vanity or morbid self
consciousness. A well-brrd man ke, ps
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-travelers
must sllale her fondness for them. If Mrs
P, with her vivid sense of Mr.. P---'s pc
cularitits and Of her fine house and equi-
page. could only once know how supreme
ly unimportant any individual is, how well
the world Jared before Mr.. P arrived,
and how unshoeked the universe will be
by his departure. she would be a modest
and well-mannered woman
That knowledge, indeed, would be Il
general corrective Of manners. A certain
kind of personal conceit often accompan-
les undeniable superiority. There are
men, like Lord Calham, who like to have
their going and coming regarded as
events, to move with IL pompouS hustle,
and to be constantly recognized AS great
men. But if they could only know ii,
that very taste is constantly accounted to
them for weakness, and their influence is
just so far lessened.-Haaper'S Nagazjnc.