Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-11-09
SOMETHING TO BE NOTED.

accustomed 10 mucn eAefClse vi hIo
powers of observation, or we'll ac'
quainted with the world, will have
noticed that the young woman OF
this period, and perhaps Of all
other periods as well, 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 acquies-
cent usage, no habit IS easily to be
oveIthrOwn.
These ways of our young ladies
are ways which take off from the
pleasant bloom of their maiden
hood, and give them often a coarse
grained and vulgar air, which none
would regret more than themselves
were they but aware Of it, for they
must know that few things are
more unlovely in young girls than
those which venture on the bold,
the brusque, the assumption of too
much saroir; ;fdire, or the obtru-
sion of themselves upon public no.
tice.
One of these Objectionable wsys
of our pretty damsels is habit
they have in travelling-and one
which could hardly have existed
before the days of railways,as stage
coach authorities would never have
winked at lt-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. IL
would seem unnecessary to remind
these young ladies that only a sin
Gle seat was paid for by each OF
them. and that therefore no more
should in decency be occupied 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 usurpatlon il
made; the newcomer has TO ask IL
the place is occupied, and Instead
of pleasant answer or reassuring
not to say welcoming, smile, re-
ceiy es a grudging negative, or else
no reply at all in words. but in thelI
place a frown and an angry sweep
ing aside OF the parcels. AS for
the feet upon the opposite seal
when it has been turned over, II
goes without saying that a lady
young or old, must be exceedingly
i'll or weary, and IN much greater
degree than ordinary railway trav
ell sees, In order to justify her in
lifting her feet into any such posi-
ton.
Another unpleasant habit of ouI
young ladies ls that Of munchlne
candies at matinees, concerts, lee
lures, at all public places, in fact
sometimes not even excepting
church, the vulgarity OF which act
in any public place whatever if
apparent at a glance-vulgsrity ol
bad taste, of appetite, and of the
display of eating, as we'll as OF the
scattering of the redolence of the
candies upon the atmosphere In
many instances, the habit being
one which has inspired the Witty
pencils of many among our eminent
carlcaturists. A custom as much
worse than this as uDkindness and
want of consideration are worse
than vuIgarIty is that of regarding
the late cOmers at theatre or con
cert-who enter quietly, anxious tC
make as little disturbance as may
be, vexed with themselves more
than any one else can be yexed
with them-as If they were some
thing only short of murderers, ris'
ing the while with an air of un.
speakable hauteur, and drawing
back as if the touch of their gar
ments were defilement, assuming a
scorn of the preceding and the
proceeders which really is only
anger at being disturbed. Ot
course it is disagreeable to gather
up all ones goods and rise in this
way, but the tardiness is 80 much
an accident that may happen to us
all that it ought to be taken in a
democratic spirit, and accorded
the treatment that it would be
pleasant in turn to receive. our
best manners, alter all, being bot
the expression of true Christianity
Still another unwise and un'
pleasant habit OF the young people
of the present-and this Is not
confined to one sex-is that oi
monopolizing attention and taking
Oh themselves the whole burden OF
conversation and entertainment,
wherever they happen to be, quite
regardless of the presence of their
elders and superiors, who may be a
thousand times more fitted to en-
gross listener and Observer-a hab'
it which makes the boy seem
boorish and bumptlous, and the
girl pitiably pert and forward. The
young have the world before them /;
they will do something better with
their share of 1t if they walt and
learn. in silence than If they OBJ