Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-01-22
CONDUCT OF THOSE NOUN1
PEOPEE"
Idaho CITY, JAN. q, 1888.

over the nom Ue piuHto VI 'SJ'
makes a very cowardly and uncailed
for attack on the young people OF our
town, in regard to the manner III
which they conducted themselves at
sociable given by one OF the
Temperance societies Of this place, or.
more correctly as to their conduct as
viewed from the hypochondriacal
stapdpoint of this fossiliferous old To-
pv. He saws: GAS soon as the chair
man announced the session closed,
and the lunch was being prepared,
these aforesaid young people, IN the
greatest haste, took possession OF eV-
cry table and chair and waited very
impatiently for the appearance Oh tlle
lunch. And such scrabble Tor
chairs and tables would have done
credit to a saloon" There was some
what Of a scrabble, we admit. The
Young men and young ladies, beng
more DESTROYS of each others compa-
nv than the company Of older per-
sons. .smade a scrabble" to use the
ipelegant expression Of s'Fogy," for
two small tables-not with any inten-
ton of crowding out older persons,
all Of whom, except ''fogy," were per-
fectly willing that they (the young
folks) should be together. 1t is a
characteristic Of youngsters to go on
hop, skip and jump, especially at
party COTTON up for fun and Joility'
and they are not expected to conduct
themselves as if at q funeral, and the
tables and chairs were not handled IN
that slow and solemn manner that
pall-bearers would lift a corpse. "Ihe
old 'grey-headed men and women nc
speaks of holding their plates on then
laps to Get along as best they could
"got along" admirably. The tables
that the scrabble" was for (not "a
soon as the session was CLOS
ed.n but at least an hour after) wer'
two small ones used as Secretary anC
Financial Secretary's desks, and whiol
ut all sociables given heretofore II
Temperance Hall, were left IN thel
places. and the old folks, and youn!
folks, too, preferred to 'hold thel
plates on their laps" On this occa
SION, however, they were placed
the center of the hall, and there wa
nothing rude nor unbecoming IN tn
CO duct of the youngsters, as the ia
bles would in all probability hay
been left where they were had nc
the latter seen fit to have brougi
them out. But this is not what huri
"F'ogy" He says: 'Then, after II
older people had gone home, the cl
max was reached by turning 1t into
dance. But the dance craze h;
reached such point here, that the'
young people would turn funer
into dance if fiddler could be pr
cured. We hope they will leal
sometime that others have feehn!
and rights that they ought to respect
The youngsters, but not all younj
STEERS, had little dance after the o
folks were through with their fun, al
were considerate enough OF the Ia
ter's s'feelings and rights not
dance until, by 50 doing, they won
not interfere with the amusement II
hurt the feelings of any reasonah
or right thinking man or woman w
participated in the sociable, and t
dance was not kept up more than hi
an hour, and it being Saturday mgI
showed their respect for the Saba
by stopping at midnight, or Il
minutes before. The dance was &C
Quoted in manner that even "tog
-, AI>.xo4 4o find fault WI