Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-04-21
Copyrighted, 1851

| times forget themselves. They are loud, defiant,
and noisy at the opera, the most fragrant sinners
| usually being those in the best boxes. Last win
ter a pr1ma donna burst into tears as a peal of
laughter was heard from conspicuous box. At
| an Irving matinee what scene OF almost brutal
| cruelty could have been witnessed as women
| pushed their way to the front. Little children
were IN danger OF losing their lives from the push.
| ing OF angry women who in a crowd seemed to
| lose the whole Idea OF gentleness and polite
| ness. The recent anathema of the clergy
| OF New York against 1.-THE congregations COM
mitted to their charge" must have arisen from
| their observance OF the angry women who push
each other In the vast crowds before them at Trim
! fty, Grace and st. Thomas on the festivals Of
| Christmas, Easter and the Annunciation. Believ-
! Ing with Burke that .manners are the shadows Of
morals" the reverend gentlemen, looking down
| angry red faces elbowing the crowd either side
| and punging fists into the unresisting back in
front OF them the rector the bishop can but be-
called gentle bosoms His mind on holy things in
tent he looks over the lilies something which re-
sembieS the procession OF nshwiyes who went to
/ versailles TO Insult Marie AntOnette and he says:
Il must rebuke this people who have let loose all
the angry passions which led to the French revo-
| lution."- The manners of American women In pub
lie places have thus doubtless led to both the
mons OF bishop Coke and the Rev. Morgan Dix.
Both gentlemen say: 1--WE do not mean that all
| bad, &C. The crowd and the crowding are bad.
| but the morals of American women are not bad.
just now especially shows itself in England; but
their manners In public places have evidently de-
ceived foreigners, and perhaps have affected the
clergy.
| HEADS AND HATS AT THE THEATER
AT crowded church In Philadelphia on Christ
mas day lady felt sharp prod In the back In the
crowd. This was repeated; she turned and saw
| that IL was her most Intimate friend, who was
! simply prodding at an obstacle-she did not care
what, When 1t turned out to be the back OF
| friend, she bluShed and prodded some other per-
| son. There is another form OF ill-breedlnc COM
! mon not only in crowds, but when people are
seated in church, or In the theater and that is the
| 0oobtng OF heads, each head crowned by a high
hat or preposterous bonnet so that the person be-
| mind has no chance at the play at all This is a
wee or manner and an outrage or fashion which
| calls for immediate remedy. The amount OF in.
VINO does not care for the play at ali 10 the quiet
gentleman behind her is one which cannot be suf-
Of bonnets and haas should be Changed:
! IL Is Infinitely vulgar and Infinitely u1be.
S SS@ins the as head o, at theater or an
between the spectator and the play the universal
verdict would De ION with his head" The modern
nish hat and bonnet is one OF the sorrows OF the
| modern play-goer. Every woman who studies
manners In public places would do well to wear a
Sp, qoes 93hnet and to study TO keep her head
| see the play Then, loud talking and moving
ABOUT wniie play Is going on is the worst posli-
oie taste Inere are many impertinent people
VINO like TO be impertinent; who think thai it
aodS 10 thelr dignity. And after these come the
| SaIeiesS VINO Iail into trap OF imitation Then
| come the honest lovers OF fun, who are ready to
take amusement whenever they can find it, and
VINO 90 not much mind where or how. such people
90 not stop TO ask the reasons OF things as they 20
| on, nor do they think OF the effect when their
| own manners are producing.
THE ENGLISH GIRL
rather severe writer in the SATURDAY. Reriezo
condemns the modern English girl In the follow
ing terms: "Neitfer the moral nor physical train
| ing OF modern English girls is such as to Justify
| the nope that she Will be invariably above re-
proach. The lives they lead. the aim set before
/ They permitted as they grow up TO deyelon ali
the vainer elements TO study shoe or TO traffic
on their charms for charity, for popularity, for
| notOriety. and their ambition is to become pro-
fessional beauties or something equally door and
Questionable, ultra fast and fashionable women
THIS Is as severe as anything that Bishop COKE or
| Rev. Morgan Dix could say. II all goes to show
that II morals are not bad, manners certainly are
Il s no new thing 10 hear society berated and az
lacked. 1t has happened since the days OF Louis
| XIV. The brilliant thing which we call society is
fnely-woyen fabric OF threads OF different sizes
/ and coiors OF contrasting shades In this web
dies or all sorts are caught They struggle they
ngnt, they a,huse themselves, they eat each other
up; Inc spiders ana the wasps are not so agree
able as the butterflies, but they all altogether
THE NEED OF MANNERS.
Now, what wand OF the enchanter can be
passed over this web, but the fine thing we call
manners? What can bring all these varied potep
t1aties into harmony but good manners? We
must nave sympathy. that pleasant thing which
makes US refined and unselfi5h; which ..knits up
the ravelled sleeve OF care:" which leaves us
strong for the battle or life. Now II we have good
manners we do not wish to crowd into churebes
or at matineeS, or TO bob our heads about SO the
man behind us cannot see the play. II we have
mannerS-good mannerS-we shall not make 80
disastrous an impression on tine clergy. tnat all
our private virtues Will hereafter seem pOwerless
TO eradicate. 1t Is treason to the American FLAG
for American women to behave In public .places
abroad as many OF them 90 AT a foreign water1u
Ing place, during last summer, an American who
MAD married an Engllshman came into the Casino
dining-room with her hands in her pockets and
marched about speaking TO several men, and aztec
ward smoked on the corridor.
show very American" said an English lady who
happened to be passing.
no" said The American to whom she spoke,
shat Is treason to the American flag"
Yet that sort of original holiness OF your
pretty young countrywomen is what has made
them attractive to the prince" answered the
Thus the American name differs on the CONT.
nent as 1t does In England.
THE VICE OF MANNER
OF few becomes the inherited reputation M the
many. The young American is prettier wtttier
| and less well-bred than any other woman. She
has wildwood flavor. She throws away her re-
serve II she has any. II she is more respectahle
than her foreign sister, she appears much less so
ior girls reared In England and on the Continent
rarely throw on that conventional air. that GER
tain fragrance Of propriety which is second nature
TO the foreign woman. Thus the American name
suffers from the vice OF bad manners The Ameri-
can beauties are always more conspicuous and
less convenable than the young French or Italian
/
examples are supposed TO be national vices and
when English women Of the highest order see a
wel-ofrd American woman they say: chow very
Engiish she Is, not knowing that such woman
Is by Iar more representative American of the
best class than she who dares insult propriety by
her loud, fast, foolish behavior in public places,
FASHION AND VICE.
There Is no lack OF vice amongst the fashionable
women or certain set Ia England, Il We can be-
lieve the accounts OF certain recent divorces
The tone is perceptbly lowered even within ten
years. Their own noyeists, essaytsts and critics
say that they surpass the women Of France and
Italy FOR their diSsouteneSS. Canon Farrar has
added his strong voice TO this denuncta.
ton. But In public places they do not throw pro-
priety 10 the winds; and they are shocked at
what Americans unwittinyly do. There is a de-
yeloprnent on the continent or American eccen-
ITCHY which we never even see at home and one
would ask: Is III always ignorance Of conventions.
anty? Tnat has great deal to do with It. doubt
less is there not sometimes self-consciousness
and desire for notoriety? Perhaps some
pretty woman from set not Considered the
Ing notice at watering place in
Europe py her beauty and her '.good cothesn She
sees that the more she is unlike other peOple the
more other people notice her. She accordingly
makes rare show OF herself, gains a false Dosi
ton, which perhaps lasts her two seasons: Or n
sne Is very lucky and has money, It perhaps buys
her an impecunious nobleman. She soon Guarrels
with this purchase, and then begins the Career Of
titled adventures, which some women have
| rendered very conspicuous and ADVANTAGEOUS to
1 themselves Although every city teens with the
| adventures the American adventures ALWAYS
does something which shocks the European mind
at every turn, and the best and most defcato fhn