Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-07-23
DAILY POSTIHTaLlGEhcER
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"a er@sd "a aaBss If Gs4tiesN9s."
VIA. Il 4 ssutIs1snf There are
sorue ola fashioned people vho behave
,b.t a gentleman ID the noblsss ereassoo
Al God: Who sslisve that 70 bea gentle
man IA 70 be brave and trus and honest
10 be tender and loving AID oSspsol;
vho believe that gentleman y soc
n,onass, title thai man can ueari taai
xorth striving for thTUoRh halt .
I;,s.sn,.. TO be kept theneeforih ussaf-
,i.bsd and unssAinsd uistil be Sho bears
!, roasts dsash calmly and feariessiy, as
gentleman should. Sadly mistaken
ara ,be.e old fashioned people, to ee
surs. but their mistake IL q nstarAi ohs'
They are old fashioned and thsy n''e
ola fasniousd IDEAS. That i all ifIeJ
look hack for their R,rntlemsn 70 the
tirse when esrtilisy did not dspehd
en- the appearsnoe of 8 mans esai' OF
mon whether bis gresi-srSnd'sIhef
lived In castle or cottage. 10 'hTm
a oepsIemau 10 rags IL q gentleman J'ss
the same, and to them tie son OF hun
drea kings il not gentleman unless s0
urov.a by the grandeur Of BIS character
ana ths Iofsinesa Of bis thoueht ths' ne
Ia entitled 10 &he name. Very scarce
thex are psz--shese old fashioned
people.
A fsv Centuries ago the ideas Of Ia
roDe underwent q radical change IN
more respects than one. With the old
traditions and ceremonies that we're
laid aside forever we're those OF kniest
hood and the tournament People be-
oan TO realize ttst the man with ths
strongest arm, OF he s'ho could wield
the sword most dextroasly, vas not
necessarily the best and greatest man.
Thee began to realize that the rode
spor,s. the Journeys aud the battles in
which they had once delighted, we're
degrading and incompatible With the
nav intellectual life into which man
kidd was entering. II was then that
the old ehivalry began 10 decline. Men
NO longer took pleasure in killing their
fellows. Toe golden visor and the vel
vet cloak were no longer disRuisa FOL
murder. The knight Grant. vho had
Thought that be vas travelling abon
doing good and upholdinR the homer O
his lady. realized that he was not doin'
good al all, asd thas his lady. In con
mon With almost every one else, va
laughing At him. So, II he vas a tru
knight, be TIRES asids his lance and hi
sword, and was content 10 do what goo
be could wlthoa. hnntine eppoftunitis
horseback. ChiSalry died, and at IL
fuueral Cervansss sss all Europe laugh
inL
Bot the knight, who was no longer
knipht,--what shoaId they call him
Tners was a nev ehivslry just comm
into being. Men were Hearning that th
bss. man IL ths most honorable, ID
m,st sympathesic, the NEST uuselh d
Thsy were AZ work all ever tbs world :
these knights without armoE or swor'
They we're doing COED eSeryvher'
You might find shem in velveti ys
might Aud them 10 rags; in the priest
hood, ia the nobiliiTv, among th
peasants, they were TO be found. An
there was no name by which the
might be called. They we're not knights
for knight had become u name OF blood
Ths German word Rittw could not }
applied to them. for many OF them wen
afool. So what did people doa The
found word which had been carrie
from the Latin into the English.
had GENE 20 mean soft, pleasant, saees
Il reminded one Of music and OF riI
ping water. II was the word aeHn
They combined II with an old Angie
saxon word, word that you find I
the German, In she Danish, in ID
swedish, in all the Northern tongues.
word whose very souna was one o
! strength aud istunsss --ths word nan
! With these .wo they formed wos
4 which IL ~ onee she sssetess and mos
\ expressive In our English tongue. The
! gave this name 10 theoe knights OF CON
7 mon life. They called them-eeu
slsnsn. But that name - tina
glorious name Of gsnElemAn-how
n misused! Tue wlwld l. shud
aerina Al the atrocities made public b
ihe PsH Mall t'slssits. Bat what doe
the Gastfts call the monsters whs per
pstrats thsss erirnesG Does IL cal
shsrn measters. heasssf No; it call
them gentlemen. And the world shud
ders and says, "Yes, tAey are gentle
men." Oh che E,isy Of u /. Gsntlesnsl
whe Outrage little girls 0euslemsl
whose praeticss would shame tn
beasts Such 10 tue p0rvsrsed gentle
man.
Bns ths real gentleman 10 gentle
man still. No. the asntn-that vil
pfoduci cf eating hsusss and eonesr
halls. Suggestive Of daslly isxplry an
redoisns Of tehaeos-but 81. sru
gentleman. he 0Aasca - y Stalker
He Il 9 gentleman ALWAYS. He is
gentleman In the dark. He II h tha
the old fashioned psopls ssiii regard =
The typical gentleman. lie exists still
and be always viii exist Old Or sounG
rich ee poos. In broadclotA or in raes
be Is siill the only true 49,. wha
shall We cali hin 'fhe Grand oil
name Of gentleman has fallen iRso dss
rspate.
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