The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1890, 1888-07-07
SOMETHING TO BE NOTED.
BAD MANNERS OF OUR YOUNG
FOLKS OF THE FAIR SEX.

BAD MANNERS OF OUR YOUNG
FOLKS OF THE FAIR SEX.
Objectionable Ways Which Lessen the At
tractivencss of NIaitlenhootl-A Practice
In MISUNDERSTANDING Candles In Public
Places-An Unwise Habit.
The traveller of years or wisdom. accus-
toned to much exercise of his powers of
observation. or we'll acquainted with the
world, will have noticed that the young
women of this period, and perhaps of all
other periods as we'll, have one or two
ways of their own which are more or less
to be regretted and which it would be
well for them to look to and correct while
they may. since once established with
acquiescent usage no habit is easily to be
overthrown.
These ways of our young ladies are
ways which take off from the pleasant
bloom of their maidenhood, and give them
often course grained and vulgar air,
which none would regret more than them
selves were they but aware of it, for they
must know that few things are more un-
lovely in young girls than those which
venture on the bold. the brusque, the
assumption of too much savoir. .faire, or
the obtrusion of themselves upon public
notice.
One of these Objectionable ways of our
pretty damsels is habit they have in
travc}ng-and one which could hardly
have existed before the days Of railways,
as stage coach authorities would never
have winked at it-of taking not only the
| whole Of a seat in the car, but Of turning
over the next seat and taking the whole Of
that, whether for parcels or for the fair
travellers feet-a custom very observable
in the frequent suburban trains. It
| would seem unnecessary to remind these
young ladies that only single seat was
paid for by each of them and that there
fore no more should in decency be occu-
pird by them, on that score alone. But
not only do they take the space that does
not belong to them, but if another traveller
comes along looking for a seat, no motion
OF withdrawal from the usurpation is
made; the new conner has to ask if the
place is occupied and instead of pleasant
answer. or reassuring. not to say welcom-
ing smile, receives a grudging negative,
their place frown and an angry sweep
ing aside Of the parcels AS for the feet
Upon the opposite scat when it has been
turned over, it goes without saying that
lady, young or old, must be exceedingly
i'll or weary, and in a much greater de-
gree than ordinary railway travel sees, in
order to Justify her in lifting her feet inte
any such position.
Another unpleasant habit of our young
ladies is that Of munching candies ut
matinees. concerts lectures. at all public
places. in fact, sometimes not even ex-
ceptlng church, the vulgarity of which
act in any public place whatever is ap-
parent at Il lance ulgarity of bad taste,
of appetite, and of the display of eating.
as we'll us of the scattering Of the redo
lenco of the candies upon the atmosphere
in many instances. the habit being one
which has inspired the witty pencils Of
many among our eminent caricaturists.
A custom as much worse than this as un-
kindness and want Of consideration are
worse than vulgarity is that of regarding
the late comcrs of theatres or concert
who enter quietly, anxious to make as
little disturbance rs may be, veXed with
themselves more than any one else can be
vcxed with thcm-as if they were some
thing only short of murderers, rising the
while with an air of unspcakAble hauteur,
and drawing back as if the touch of their
garments were deflement, assuming a
scorn of the proceeding and the proceeders
which really is only anger ut being dis
turbcd. Of course it is disagreeable to
gather up all ones goods and rise in this
way, but the tardness is so much
an accident that may happen to us all
that it ought to be taken in democratic
spirit, and accorded the treatment that it
would be pleasant in turn to receive, our
best manners. after all, being but the ex-
preston Of true Christianity
~ i'll nnOt her unwiSa and nnD(n0 can't
habit of the young people of the present
and this is not confined to one sex-is
that of monopolizing attention and taking
on themselves the whole burden of con-
versation and entertainment, wherever
they happen to be, quite regardless of tho
presence of their elders and superiors,
who may be thousand times more fitted
to cngross listener nnd Observer habit
which makes the boy seem boorish and
bumptious, and the girl pitiably pert and
forward. The young have the world be-
fore them they will do something better
with their share if they wait and learn
in silence than if they obtrudc themselves
as if they had nothing more to hear, and
wisdom would die with them. One is
tempted to say that it is enough for the
young to be young, that the beauty of
youth the bri ght color, the full eye, tho
velvet cheek, the gay spirit, is enough,
without taking pains to make it all too
obvious; the rose which bushes by itself
in quiet places Of the garden is far moro
attractive than the rose that every wind
has rified and every bee has rumpled.-
| Harper's Bazaar.