St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-12-31
PEOPLE WHO WOULD NOT BE
MISSED.


PEOPLE WHO WOULD NOT BE
Some Mean Traits of Mankind.
A newspaper correspondence furnishes
little list of people who he thinks, in
the language of Gilbert's new song,
would ssnever be missed":
The man who smokes paper cigar
cites, poisoning all the air in the room
he inhabits, in the halls and for sever
al yards around him on the street.
The man who hurries ahead of eve
rybody else getting aboard a car, to
the imminent peril of women and chill
dren as we'll as other men physically
weaker than himself.
The man who interrupts when you
undertake to talk with him.
The argumentative man, who makes
assertions solely for the purpose of
calling out contrary opinions and then
fights with the owner of said opinions
because they differ from his own.
The egOtist, man or woman, whose
topic, morning, noon, night and after
noon, is self, who is always and with
out intermission an 81" bigger than all
other rs.
The writer who is always quoting
what he Ras written.
The reporter who has never learned,
that the words equine" and ''canine"
are adjectives, and not nouns.
The woman who asks personal ques
tons and all kinds of questions who
bores into every crevice of your heart,
your home and your purse, for the
sake of indulging an idle and vulgar
and proftless curiosity.
The man who never gives his seat to
woman Oh the horse cars, who can
sit while old women, OverwOrked wO
men, sick women and tired women
stand.
The man who is always threatening
to do fine things to give his friends
pleasure, and never does them.
The creature who spits on public
stairways, in horse cars, halls and 9th
er places frequented by clean people.
The man who stares Extensively at
women in public places.
The woman who gOssips about the
private affairs of her acquaintances.
The man who lies and the woman
who doesn't tell the truth.
The man whose mind is dirty and
cannot refrain from letting its unclean
ness filter out through his speech.
The very young man who thinks it
lawfully jolly" to make fun of old men
and old women.
The man who tries to make an i'm
preston OH women by telling them,
within the first half hour after he is in
troduced, how rich he is.
The intOlerant man who sees no
good in people who differ from him in
religion or politics.
The man who thinks he is handsome
and in consequence of that illusion be-
comes something of a fool as he nears
middle age.
The incessant talker, man or woman,
who talks to you at all times and in
all places, and never says any thing
you want to hear.
The man who reads aloud when not
asked to do so.
The man who asks you how you are
"getting along" as though he expect
ed You to tell him everything about
yourself, physical, social, domestic and
financial
The man or woman who cherishes
spite at people for real or fancied
wrongs, and gets even by giving them
digs behind their backs.
The suspicious person who sees evil
in the most innocent actions, because
evil is within him or her.
The sneerer, male or female, who
chills everybody within sight by his
finished sneer.
The man who talks Overmuch about
his ailments at table. or elsewhere.
The extremely young man who
knows so much that he refuses to learn
anything more so long as he lives.
The man who accepts favOrs and re-
turns none.
The man who sits cross-legged in
horse car and lets other men and all
women wipe the dirt off his shoes with
their clothes as they pass him.
The man who carries his cane hOri-
zentally under his arm to the peril of
every body behind him.
The man who dyes his whiskers and
thinks nobody knows it.
The old, old beau who has never
learned that he has lost the power to
charm.
The too friendly friend who sort of
takes charge of you, dOmineers over
you and otherwise annOys you till you
break with him.
The perfect creature who has never
sinned, in his own opinion.
The man who is saint abroad and
a devil at home.
The woman who sits behind you in
the theatre and talks all the time.
The woman who sits in front of you
wearing a towering bonnet and hobs
from side to side, obstructing your
view.
The friend who nudges you too fire.
quently at public entertainments and
whispers his criticisms at the most alb
sOrbing points of the concert.