Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-07-17
ENGLISH GENTLEMEN.
A Criticism on the Manners of the
New Generation.
The Phenomenal Stupidity OF the Young
Nobleman OF the Present Day as Ex-
hibited in Polite English Circles
and Related by an American.
ILonlon Letter.1


They haven't the fai test IDEA of the
proper way to treat lady. They look on
women pretty much as the red Indians do
AS necessary to man. A sentiment of
love or affection for a woman, except in a
purely sensual scnse, they never entsr-
tanned. Marriage is entered into by them
for one of two reasons, or for both. They
marry for money, and for the Irocuration
OF an heir TO keep up the tie of property,
as The case may be. II the wife has beau
ty as we'll as money, and the ability 70 ro-
produce her kind, it's all the better; but
her looks, good or bad, form no factor in
the original marital arrangements In
the society of ladies they are brusque, uu-
cnuth and sRraVinsk- AL the little RESPECTS
for aud attentions to woman which are
! 80 noticeable on the Continent apd in
A uerica the Englishmen l speak OF are
quite ignorant of. At all courts sthey
might as well be, for they never ob5erve
/ them. They are awkward. shambling
dancers; they are bored at having to take
of their hats to ladies; they will moso?-
olize the best seats and let ladies stand |;
they will push and elbow women out of
the way in a ballroom, and criticise them
To each other in the coarscst manner ,nnd
language. In fact, as have said, they
have no high ideas OF womankind. No
woman ever gets higher in their tn ouS Shts
or regard than the position there filed by
n gayety burlesque actress or q Spisrs 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 is har1 to
say. The girls themselves, / fancy, more
than anybody. II women will 90 aud
shoot, hunt, play at billiards and lawn
tennis, smoke, drink and joke with young
mcn, and affect their clothing in
their dress and their horsey slang in their
| s!eech, they encourage the young men to
| treat them as they treat men. 1t is their
fault if men don't act toward them with
the Difference and respect their mothers Te-
momber in their time. Yet, though it may
be n reason, il is no excuse for the young
men themselves. or the intelligent con-
versational powors of these young fellows,
! 1t mo give you a sample as taken down
/ by myself. What is going t eventually
become of country whose political cOndi-
Ion will some day be affected by such men
leave to conjecture. Imagine yourself
seated in the smoking-room of n swell
A<fnhOh NAubs n gVhh6 hNh W NHCNS eaANo
n year is seated near by, smoking n cigar,
| cite and scrutiniziuS his finger nails
through n single glass. Enter to him
another young swell, younger son of a
leading menber of the House Of Lords
Now listen:
al say!"
''Hello's, that your"
"Ya-as."
"Just got hah."
"Rah-ly? So'ye l." ?
80, h-ly"S
, "Ya-as, ya-as; o, ya-as."
A psuse, during which the new conner
sticks his glass in his eye, and looks down
at his boots.
"Reggie's hah."
40 rah-ly. Is hep"
40, ya-as."
"Rah-ly"
as goin' to chuck" (Leave tho army.)
"OyD
go ya-as."
"Rah-ly!'
"Ya-as."
"Ow
| Aud so on ad inflnitum, or as long as
/ you can sit and listen, viii this sort of
talk go on, interspersed at intervals for
variety with some allusion TO a ''hoss at
| the yard' or ''gal at the Cri." There is
one thing that have little hesitation in
asserting, and it is this Among the
higher classes in England women possess
the most intelligence, are better read, bet
/ ter informed, and are better takers. Tho
men can't talk of anything but the army
| (when they are in it), ox-hunting, racing,
steeple-chasing, horses, cricket, and lawn
tennis. On subjects of national or general
interest-be it historical, political, scien-
tific, or literary-they haven't an idea to
advance or opinion TO uphold.