Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-06

rue RANTEf WHO NEvER JUDGED.
have noticed that the men here who do
CALAMITY get up end give their seats to ladies'
are apt to be either western or southern. The
native New Yorker regards himself as too
great a creature altogether to put himself out
to make way for "mere women whom in all
stations he considers his interiors. He has
patterned his manners after foreign exanaple
mostly, and of a very common order of ex-
amples at that. No, New York is not Amer
lean. The soil it stands on is all that is Amer
ican about it. 1t contains, for the most part.
forelgn people and is given over to foreio1,
habits, manners, customs and forms of living
Old school gentlemen are scarce here. The
old school gentleman is a gentfeman: but T
fear that, like the buffalo and the Indian te,o
much progressive civilization has almost e.v.
~tinguished him. He gets up, no matter b oyy
lnfirm and aged he may be, because his self-
respect would not allow him to keep his seat
az the sacrifice of his politeness. The work.
ing man, his kit of tools in hand and weary
from a long day of hard work, rarely sits
+Wlii1e. ! -ssana. Nevta il ne Is a native
american. The widows SON In knickerbock-
ers' whose stockings show amother's nightly
uaiHing' eourueously surrenders his seat to q
lady, though his slender limbs NAV he tired
from much running Of errands or other ,yorls
de has been bred in the school which resnects
women and synpathizes with their weakness
and WEAKNESS of body.
Inc men who never get up are the law
lawyers, sleek brokers and bloated eonr-
MAIDS, aospend their lives largely in COM
sortahe chairs, and are familiar with tethe
Iat OF The land" They are lostt to all thought
fof Others The great god Self possesses them
ehtfeiy. The man who, at banquets, toasts
'the ladies, God bless 'em,' with fulsome
speech and knlghtly gesture, remains glued
10 ms seat. Women may come and yoner
may go, but he sits still forever. The editor
remains prim in his corner, terribly shocked
at the rudeness of other men, and then goes
down to his office and writes u .s]ashfng ar
ticle on the decadence of manners The
dude, immaculate as to collar and cuffs. and
hlsagTeeably maculate as to manners and
morals, gets up only when u 'tmashablen fair
one enters. t3
! saw a male woman suffrage ranter keep
nis seae IN a morse car, with the fjrmness of a
government official, and the s~elfishness attrib.
ateo TO SWINE, while two old women and
several young ones stood. One of the younger
ones had q baby in her r-ms, too; yet the
week before l had heard him make n snaecb
IN Whicn all men who did not wear themselves
to skeletons in trying to make this world a
more habitahle place for women. were de-
nouncea in termsas strong Us polite ears could
listen to- particularly remembered
that he said s'this world wasn't fit for
q lady to- 1--we in" and / agreed
with him Still stronger was my in
of this sentiment after saw him
on a horse.car. This is he in the picture, the
one In the high hat, but who has a nose that
tells Gales. The nose in real life is red. The
hiack n white limitations which my artist
was oohged to conform to, can not do justice
TO this noble creature. ERBoN OLIVER.