The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-03-24
TASTE AND ETIQUETTE.
Showing That Different Persons Attach
Entirely Different Meanings to the
Words Constituting the Caption Hereof.

showing That Different Persons Attach
Entirely Different Meanings to the
Words Constituting the Caption Hereof
Different persons have entirely differ
ent opinions in regard to taste and
etiquette. Some are sticklers for GER
tain manifestations of good breeding,
while others lay stress upon other and
quite dissimilar rules of behavior. For
instance:
There are ne1 who would be
ashamed to eat with their knives. even
in private, but who will talk at the top
of their voices in the public reading
room.
And men who, though they would
scorn to remain seated in horse-car
while a pretty girl is standing. will
throw banana skin on the sidewalk,
regardless of the inevitable conse-
9ucnce.
And women who are scrupulously
neat as TO their hands and fingers, but
who will. nevertheless, persist i'm wear
ing the biggest hat at the theater tha,
they can get hold of.
And women who sing like seraphs,
and vet will they keep the car window
wide open though they know that il
means pneumonia to one-half of their
fellow-pasSengers, and catarrh and sore
throat 10 the other half.
And women whose conversation is q
LIBERAL education and perennial delight
10 the listener, and vet their hair pre-
sents first-clasS preSumptive evidence
that it has had no acquaintance with
comb and brush for month, at least.
And men who never forget to lift
their hats To 4 lady. but who can not be
trusted with impunitv for dollar.
And men who would die rather than
eat their soup from the end of their
spoon. but who will lie ike Ananias
upon the slightest prOyOcatiOn.
Aud men who are scrupulously care
ful To- give a lady the inside of the
walk, and vet think nothing of calling
upon you at your busiest hour and bor-
ing YOU until Won wish they We're dead.
And women who would never pre-
sumo TO help themselves ut table until
everybody else Is supplied. who will
nevertheless say the SpitefuleSt things
imaginable about their dear friend be-
hind her back.
And boys who never forget TO say
YES. SIR" and '.Yes'm." but who are
taken with sudden sickness the mo-
ment they are asked TO do an errand
for their mothers.
And girls vino do not have TO be
coaXed To play upon the piano before
company, but who will turn around
and giggle when a strange man makes
remarks about them in the street.
And men who would not clean their
nails in public. but who will shove ,
pewter quarter on TO a blind man.
And men who always say beg par
don" before telling you You lie, and
who nevertheless will inevitably fail TO
remember to paw their butcher bills.
And men who would never interrupt
another while he is speaking, but who
will advise their best friend To- invest in
a worthless stock. simply because they
have some On that stock which they
wish to dispose of.
And men who are too polite TO look
over your shoulder when YOU are writ
inc, who think nothing of registering
false Oaths ut the custom-hOuSe almost
daily.
Many more instances might he adj
dlced. but the above will suffice to
show that we do not al think alike up
on these little matters of etiquette. -BOS-
ton TTdRScriDt.