The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-22
perfect man than he is, in America. I
showed that there is more capability il

perfect man than he is in America. II
showed that there is more capability in
him for improvement than we have, de,
veloped. It is conclusive evidence that
there is a vast amount Of good mental
ground lying fallow, wasting or running
to noxious weeds, in the negro. 1t is as
well to say it right here-despite their
many ignorances, their conceit and their
improyidence and inertness, the average
Liberian Is in most ways immessurably
superior to the average American negro,
and those at Sierra Leone are as far
above him in requirements as the clouds
ARE above the earth. In the social re.
finements the better classes of colored
people there seem perfect. In one
thing. I could notice distinctly the
thres degrees of progression, as ;illustra-
ted by the English Colony negro, the
Liberian negro, and the American
negro
THE oBsERyANCEs OF TABLE Ell
-, .QUETTE. ,e.5N.
This, is q small matter at first sight,
but it tells story when looked into.
HistofY viii show that in proportion as
men have become civilized they have
paid more and more attention 10 the little
.niceties and daintinesses that redeem the
taking of food from the: dncleanlyf and
disgusting obedience to Necessity and e.
ierefse of. gluttony Of the savage to the
apleasurable, graceful and cleanly indul-
eence: IN asfuxury of the wel-bred Euro
Dean or American. It, is very we'll TO
spout Bnrns; but eyens the most. iaha
universal social. equality lunatic would
find sc difficult to realize that the man
s.Nbo, sits pposite, who makes of his
mouth ans;open sepulchre in which he
intefs all Of his feelings, seasibilities and
intellectual Developments, shoveis in J
them huge and indiscrimihate masses s0f
food:wit6 his knife and gulps his wineas
if it we're dose Of medicine, il 9 man
for q that. Peoples style of eating is
generally a fair Indication of their pro-
.gress in civilization. The Bushman eats
his fish half raw with his. hands; the
Chinsman conveys it neatly and deftly
to his mouth with chopsticks; the Eng
lishman carefully, and as deftly, scoops"
it in with silver fork. These are the
three degrees. Il don't mean to say chat
a man is unciviiized unless he eats his
fishswith q bit Of bread and q, fork, but
the civilized man, however he does han
dlelhis food, does it cleanly. Iellitnet
in Gath, publish it not in the streets of
Askalon, but. almost every, meal I took
while on African soil was in company
with colored people. A man, and es-
-pecially newspaper reporter, has, from
policy and >decency both, to subordinate
hisprejudices aud habits to politeness.
besides which - c3;t
,"We can live without knowledge; what is
. knowledge but grisyipg? llit
We can live without hope; what is hope
but deceiving?
We can 'nvewithout love; what is love but
repining?. rfj.r
lBut WHARF As the man who niiye without
dining 4il
I can safely asseverate that he isn't in
my boots at any rate. The correctness
iof tKeqdotation is not youched fos.1a kIts
the only part g 'Lucille,p If it. is "Lu-
icille,,n that ever impressed me much.")
But the Sierra Leone people display q
spontaneous and unconscious scrupulous-
ness regarding the observance of all
points Of abfe etiquette, such as is hard
~ seen in the best American households,
and puts ahshabitnal.sitteria hotel tables
-to. diligently recalling the precepts in
culcated in his youth regarding the
proper manipulation of table furniWre,
&c. The Liberians are apparently mich
Iless enlightened s0ns this subject, and
seemed, with one or two exceptions, to
pay little attention 'toit,l while The Azors
people had each their own original and
.untrammelled style, the main object
seeming to be the consumption of the
greatest possible amount of food in the
least possible time. Almost everybody,
both in Sierra Leone and Liberia, had
,claret at dinner, and there was usually q
glass Of sherry Of Madeira rendered be-
fore Or after the meal.
Z. g TRADE wITH THE sOITTH.