St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-11
SCOLDS A LITTLE GENTLY
Over the Ways of So-CalIed Polite
Society in Treatment of Uncon-
ventiOnal Worth.

over the w avs Oh SO.CaticQ route
Society in Treatment of Uncon-
ventional Worth.
Letter to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, June 5.-After
sleeping on the question:" have de-
cided to scold-if you choose to call it
scolding-a little more. / am an old
woman. very near the "three score and
ten" years allotted to mortals, and know
something l never dreamed of in the
years that have gone by. There was a
time when wealth was the criterion by
which people were really measured,
but that day has passed; so has the day
when school teacher was an hOnOred
person.; SO has the day when gay plum
age made the man OF woman; so has the
day that a farmer was of very small ac-
count and his family nothing; so has
the day when money made the man, or
woman either, and the changing condi-
tons caught some people mapping Sc
renely on While the changes were TAX
all aback by the awkward country boy
all unconsciously displaying his ignor-
ance of the essential element of polite
ness, or we will see the young woman
who by her way and manner will at
times display "a raw and ignorant
country girl;" and yet again and again,
until the world around him or
her have passed judgment upon
them, and they are left alone to feel
severely lalone in their ignorance
of conventional life, and that, too. with
out knowing why it is meted out to
them. Every one that meets them may
see it and smile even while recognizing
the good qualities of these young people,
THEY WILL, SHIN THEM
if possible, and pass them by without
recognition. Very of ten even the par
ents are ignorant of the why and the
wherefore, and have not taught their
children to look to the ways of polite
society or to copy after them, and may
be did not know there was anything
lacking in the department of their chill
dren that others might smile over or
laugh at. You may say it is wrong to
laugh at ignorance, you may know all
that is to be praised in these cases, but
you will hide your smile and keep the
laughter down as they pass by, but
| then, sir, you do not raise or even touch
| your hat to her, because she betrayS by
| her walking or otherwise, her ignorance:
| and, sir, you do not want anyone to see
| that you, genteel and polished as you
are, ever met and had an introduc-
ton to her! All, well you are
| but one in a great many that
feel the same way about these country
| lads and lassieS who have never been
| taught what real and true politeness is.
| Therein you have plenty of company
that will do the same thing and charity
is an unknown quantity with you, and
some day these fame young people may
learn ''thing or two" and then you
will be-shall 1 say it?-compelled to
notice them even if you had rather not
| In this Western world there are a great
many people on farms that have always
been city bred people, and such are
easily distinguished from others that
were brought up on farms. In the one
case adverse fortune has sent the city
bred people onto farms and they never
miss reading your character at once, and
| you know it as we'll as l do. 1t is here
that l contend that every farmers