The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-21
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TUESDAY, JULY 81, 1885.
MANNERS IN ENGLAND.

foreigners never understand their
ways, and always paint them blacker
than they deserve. The following
article is written by one of them
selves, who evidently can look at
the matter from both the insular
and the cosmopolitan standpoints.
1t is from the editorial columns of
the London Queen. The writer
says:--
Englishmen to their own women
are both helpful and protecting, if
little more masterful than some of
those women like; generous and for
giving, if always more than little
ovcrbcaring to all creatures that are
weaker than themselves. When the
ladies of party are their private
friends, or belong to their own spe-
cial family, they may rely on being
treated with consideration and pro-
tected against annoyances, dangers,
and the consequences of their COM
parative weakness. When they are
strangers, and without private
claims, they will find the tables for
the most part turned, and in the
manners of the modern young man
will be as much consideration as
there is likeness between bear and
poodle-a crab apple and New
town pippin. They are no more UNI
selfish than the ordinary foreigner,
and they are not so polite. And if
you are to have your ears boxed,
you might rs well have it done
pleasantly as brutally. To illustrate
this selfshness: The other day a
young and very pretty woman, with
eyes of the kind supposed to be able
to melt the typical ice, was on the
point of stepping up into an omnibus
where only one seat was left. A
well-dressed, well-got-up man of
about thirty pushed her rudely aside
as he sprang up the steps and took
the vacant place. At another time,
on coming out of the theatre, while
the people were waiting just inside
the door for their carriages or cabs,
a man lighted his cigar and blew the
smoke into the face of lady stand
ing there with a friend. She made
gesture of repugnance, when the
man said, Gentlemen may smoke
here" "You may smoke here, but
you cannot be a gentleman if you
do" said the lady-one of those
not easily put down.
TRAVELLING.
The annoyances to which young
women travelling alone are often
subjected is again by no means q
; proof that our politeness is intrinsic.
In this, however, Englishmen are nc
worse than their neighbors, and per.
haps not so bad. To call this kind
of annoyance the natural expression
of admiration is as logical as to cal
thieving admiration, and man who
Conveys" your watch or your purse
an admirer of fine chasing or Of
sharp-edged milling. If lady
meets an ordinary young English.
, man who does not know her, she
meets someone who for the most
part-we must never forget there
are exceptions-does not deem hel
worthy of politeness, and who does
not 60 out of his way to show hel
any. If she be pretty he stares al
her, perhaps smiles, perhaps speaks
J if she be of no personal attractive.
ness, and has only her womanhood
as her claim, he leaves her emphatic
; ally to herself. Whatever she
may be about to do - to pass
through doorway, enter a railway
carriage, or an omnibus, OF lift
be pushes past her, though no one
is hurried for time, and lets he
follow meelly after. The elder mel
are more courteous. They retaiI
still certain flavor of the stately
old times when manners were a par
of gentleman's education, ant
politeness was one of the points O.
distinction between courtier and I
boor. They will stand aside to lie
a woman be first seated; but, saw
J. few of the finer sort-"skippers'
0 and the like, finer because of TIT
j., noble harmonies of their nature
the rank and file of modern youn.
men think only of themselves, ant
, thrust to the wall the weaker obsta
Gle, without thought of anythin!
save their convenience. 1t seems 81
very strange to those accustomed t.
other ways to see superb mashe
come striding in to any place wher
! ladies already are, with no more &C
. acknowledgement of their preseno
II than if they were so many parcel
/ from the drapery establishment owe
# the way. He scrapes against thei
feet, and probably leaves the mark
of his own on their skirts; pushe
n past their faces. threatening thei