St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-13
RISING ENGLISH CENT? EMAN.
A Severe Criticism On the Manners of the
Neic Generation.

Neic Generation.
They haven't the faintest idea of the proper
way to treat lady. They look on women
pretty much as the red Indians do, as neces-
sary to man. A sentiment of love or aGec-
ton for woman, except in purely sensual
sense, they never entertained. Marriage is
entered into by them for one of two reasons,
or for both. They marry for money, and for
the procuration of an heir to keep up the title
or property, as the case may be. 1.-THE wife
have beauty as well as money, and the ability
to reproduce her kind, it is all the better; but
her looks, good or bad, form no factor in the
original marital arrangements. In the So
ciety of ladies they are brusque, uncouth and
sprawling. All the little respects for and at
tentions to woman, which are so noticeable
on the continent and in America, the Eng
lishmen | speak of are quite igno rant of. At
all courts they might as well be, for they
never observe them. They are awkward,
stumbling dancers; they are bored at having
TO take off their hats to ladies'; they will
monopoliZe the best seats aud let ladies
stand; they will push and elbow women out
OF the way in ballroom, and criticise them
to each other in the coarsest manner and
language. In fact, as l have said, they have
no high ideas of womankind. No woman
ever gets higher In their thoughts or regard
than the position there filled by a gayety
burlesque actress or Spiers and Ponds bar
maid Let me observe that their fathers are
not SO. 1t is only of the present generation
of young men that l speak. Who is to blame
for it, it is hard to say. The girls themselves,
| fancy, more than anybody. If women will
Shnnf fla at rHS nd
lawp-tennis, smoke, drink and joke with
young men, and affect their clothing in their
dress. aud their horsey slang in their speech,
they encourage the young men to treat them
as they treat men. 1t is their fault if men
don't act towards them with the Difference
and respect their mothers remember in their
time. Yet, though it may be reason, it is
no excuse for the young men themselves.
Of the intelligent conversational powers of
these young fellows, let me give you sample
as taken down by myself What is going to
eventually become of country whose politi-
cal condition will some day be affected by
such men, leave to conjecture. Imagine
yourself seated in the smoking-room of a
swell London club. A young heir to thou
sands year is seated near by, smoking
cigarette and scrutinizing his fiager-nails
through single eye-glass. Enter to him
another young swell, a younger son of
leading member of the house of lords. Now,
listen:
II sayr'
'Hellos, that you?"
''Ya-as.r
''Just got hab.'i
'Rah-ly! So've II
''Oh, rah-lys'
''Ya-as, ya-as; oh, ya-as."
pause, during which the newcomer
sticks his glass in his eye, and looks down at
his boots.
"Reggie's hah.'
"Oh, rah-ly. Is he?''
"Oh, va as.''
"Rah-lyi"
'"S goin' to chuck" Oeave the army
"OhW
ooh, ya-as.r
''Rah-lyl"
'Ya-as."
COMP
And SO on ad ininitum, or as long as you
can sit and listen, will this sort Of talk 60 on,
interspersed at intervals for variety with
some allusion to ''hoss at the yard'' or a
''gal at the Cri.' There is one thing that |
have little hesitation in asserting. and 1t is
this: Among the higher classes in England
women possess the most intelligence, are
better read, better informed and are better
takers. The men can't talk of anything but
the army when they are in it,) fox-huntlng,
racing, steeplechasiug, horses, cricket and
lawn tennis. On subjects of national or
general interest-be it historical, political,
scientific or literary-they haven't an idea To
advance or opinion to uphold.