Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-07-28
THE EUROPEAN HOG.
The Nature or the Beast as Seen by
jackson Jarves.

JACKSON O8EVes.
From the New York Tribune. So
| A long experience of Italv had giyer
Mr.. Jarves lavish material for these Ugh,
yet careful sketches in his book, "Ital-
ian Rambles." HIS displays a quick OBJ
servation and keen appreciation OF
national and social diyersities; and his
records of country sauntering, if little
heavy, are lightened by many neat and
truthful pictures. A chapter on old and
new world manners in suggestive and
anecdotical. Mr.. Jarves credits the pipe,
cigar, and cigarette with an unduly act
i've agency in the growth of bad man
ners, and holds:that a decisive test of
the modern gentleman in his willing.
ness to refrain from smoking in consid-
Grafton of the health and comfort of an
other. Selfishness in this matter shows
itself much less in Italy, he
declares, than elsewhere, because
amenity of manners and respe ct of rights
are still the social law. Some of the in
stances which records of bad manners in
smokers are at once amusing and exas-
peratiug. II have known" he SAYS "a
German of high rank, with his daughter,
| insist on using his pipe in ladies COM
partment in a railway carriage where he
had no right even to enter, despite the
representations of the lady occupants,
who finally were compelled to call on
| the guard to request him to 60 into the
smoking carriage. AS this occurred in
Italy the suffering ladies had their re-
dress. But the daughter of the titled
boor, as be left, angrily exclaimed:
'See what you have done to my poor
papa; you have made him leave his
place to smoke away from me-"
San American lady has given me
still stronger illustration III point with
in her experience. Some friends of
hers, ladies of much culture and genial
manners, speaking German well, were
in the same railway earT;sge near Baden
with titled German, who began to use
his pipe. One of the ladies being made
sick by it, her companion politely beg
ged him to desist, at least until they
could change their seats. Looking at
the speaker with contemptuous brutal
ity, the aristocratic rutlian replied:
"make her sick, does it? Then let her
die; women who can't bear smoke ought
to-" SWinburne, who abhOrs tobacco
with the zeal of man to whom it Is Il
poisonous nuisance, and avoids it when
possible, on entering q certain club, and
trying in vain to find room free from
smokers, at last apostrophised in his
wrath the unconscious offenders i'll this
fashion: Games l. was knave, a tyrant.
fool, q liar, and coward; but love
him; worship him; because he slit the
throat of that blackguard, Raleigh, who
invented filthy smoking Bad manners
uaro not IN the side Of tho Smokers
this time, but we regret that there
could not have been a Swinburne with
the American ladies, to have made a
lively time for his mightiness the Ger
man blackguard."
Mr.. Jarves INDUCES also in anecdotes
of American and English rudeness.
Among those dealing with the waste
loving Briton is this: the feeling which
gives rise at home in British circles to
contempt for those of different social
stratum is apt to be intensified when di
rected toward foreigners. A young
American lady of my acquaintance,
bearing family name we'll known in
the English aristocracy, while sitting at
table dhote dinner in Switzerland,
next to party of English tourists, heard
one of the ladies, who had read her
name on the hotel register, refe rring to
herself, ask her companion! is she the
Hon. Miss--of Lon1onp No. was
the reply in pointed contemptuous
tone; she's only an American knowing
and intending that her remark would be
overheard by the lady herself. To give
greater sting to the gratuitious impertl-
hence, another added: 'You know no
American goes into good society in Lon
dom" # FJI b..