Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-20
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The people of Central America are
noted for their politeness. tits universal
The very idlers ofthe street never pass
alady without removing their hats, and
no servant goes to bed without Wishing
her employers good night. Dr.. F. C.
| Valentine, a physician of New York
who spent some time in Central Amer.
cawith his family, tells US lin The Man.
| hattan) why this is so. He saws, 'sthe
| prime study, and the only one in which
! all students are invariably perfect, in all
schools, is the Glass of Urbanity and
| Good-Manners. 1t occupies the first
| place in the curriculum Of all institu-
| sions OF learning, except in the schools
of medicine and law.
The textbook used is called Car
| rene's Manual of Urbanity and Good
Manners and the author has prepared
! a compendium of his work for the use of
schools of both sexes. Let us suppose
this study transferred to one of our
North American schools. Adopting the
Central American form of address, the
teacher would say
Young ladies and gentlemen of the
class of politeness will please to arise
They arise and bow to their teacher
end to each other.
Master Chester Smith. 3ou will kind
~ permit me to remark that your sow
| 1g not quite as low or as dignifiea as
should be that of an hidalgo of the old
school. Would you obliga me By re-
peating it?"
Master Chester smiles aaably, places
his right hand where he presumes his
heart to be and gracefully swings his
| lett, while his entire body describes a
curve. "That is better, Master Chester.
| thank you" To which the pupil re,
plies, with an other and more extensive
bow and sweep, 81 am IN delirious
frenzy of acute delight a5 having pleased
! my most amiable teacher"
The teacher says, Ladies and gentle
men OF the Class Of Urbanity and Good
Manners will kindly oblige me oy tax.
| ing their seats"
The class responds, "0ur high esteem
for our teacher positively forbids our
being seated until our learned Professor
occupies the chair of wisdom ard amia-
bilitv."
But ladies and gentlemen, I beg 0
YOU
Our beloved teacher, we humbly
beseecs your mercy
Fac 4 phrase is accompanied by a
bo", and the teacher finally, with a
deprecatory and apologize courtesy, as
sumes the chair.
The scholors bow to each other and
60 through pantomlme, as each one
endeaVors to insist that his or her neigh
Dor shall sit first.
Let US presume ourselves to be the
committee appointed to examine the
class which is about to graduate, and
that, like all Central Americans. we have
memorized Carreno from cover to cover.
We respond to the teachers inviting
bow and proceed to question the gradu-
ates, just as snch committees would do in
Central America.
Master Benjamin Butlero, please to
tell us, il you kindly sil, how does our
Master Careno divide mans moral du-
ties?'
master Benjamin arises, steps for
| ward and bows, first to us, to his teach
| er and then to his classmates. He strikes
an oratorcal attitude, and says, The
| moral duties of man are divided into the
duties we owe to God, to society and to
| ourselves Our duties to society are di-
| ylded into those We owe to our parents,
our country and our fellow beings"
"Mas.er Grover Partatierra, will
| you please to tell us how urbanitv is
| dividcd?'
| Into chapter the first, eeneal prin-
cipies; chapter the second, cleanliness
in our persons, our clothing, our. house
and toward each other; chapter the
third treats how we should deport our
selves at home, which is again divided
| into method" as part of good educa-
ton, retiring and arising, home gar
ments, our conduct toward our family,
| and toward our neighbors. the fourth
/ pboyfar hn11. to l,ofora Io c}r n{e,
in church and al school.
| "The fifth is social one, and from it
! We have learned how to conduct conver-
| satlons, how to make visits, how to be-
! have at table, how to carve and serve
| food, and how the department should
| be while gambling. The sixth and last
chapter show the ditferect applications
| OF urbanity in epistoary CORES pond
ence, and concludes with divers rules
Miss susanna Liliana, would yon
| oblige US by detailing the rules we are
| to observe when we do not know how
| to proceed?"
| In society, whenever we do not
| know the manner of proceeding in GER
tain cases, we follow the example set us
| by the most cultured persons present, as
is directed by Senior Carreno, on page
! thirty-two and paragraph eleven"
''Miss Maria Andadera, would you
| please to tell how man who acts wo.
manly and a woman who acts manly ap.
| pearl"
"The second part of Carreno, nine.
teenth chapter, on page thirty five, says
| that man who adopts woman's modera-
ton appears timid and weak, while wo.
man who assumes mans free deport-
! ment appears immodest and coarse
| AS we continue the examiner we dis