Smyrna times., 1888-06-20
SOMETHING TO BE NOTED.
BAD MANNERS OF OUR YOUNG
FOLKS OF THE FAIR SEX.

tractivcness of Maidenhood-A Practice
in Notwithstanding Candies in Public
Placos-An Unwise Habit.
The traveller Of years or wisdom. accus.
toned to much exercise of his powers OF
observation. or well 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 coarse 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, OF
the obtrusiOn of themselves upon public
notice
One of these Objectionable ways of om
pretty damsels is a habit they have il
traveling-and one which could hardly
have existed before the days of railways
as stage coach authorities would never
have winl1ed 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 fah
travellers feet-a custom very observable
in the frequent suburban trains. 1t
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
pied 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,
or else no reply at all in words, but in
their place a frown and an angry sweep
ing aside of the parcels. AS for the feet
Upon the opposite seat when it has been
turned over, it goes without saying that
q 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 into
any such position.
Another unpleasant habit of our young
ladies is that of munching candies at
matinees, concerts, lectures, at all public
| places, in fact, sometimes not even eX-
cepting church. the vulgarity of which
act in any public place whatever is ap
| parent at a glance-vulgarity of bad taste
! of appetite. and of the display of eating
| as well as of the scattering of the redo
lence of the candies upon the atmosphere
! in many instances. the habit being one
which has inspired the witty pencils 0.
many among our eminent caricaturists
| A custom as much worse than this as un
kindness and want of consideration arr
worse than vulgarity is that of regarding
the late comers Of theatres or concert
who enter quietly, anxious to make a.
little disturbance as may be, vcXcd will
themselves more than any one else can b
veXed with them-as if they were some
thing only short of murderers, rising TIN
while with an air of unspeakable hauteur
and drawing back as if the touch of thei
garments were defleHcnt, assuming
scOIn of the proceeding and the proceeder
which really is only anger at being dis
turbed. OF course it is disagreeable t
gather up all ones goods and rise in thi
way, but the tardiness is so mucl
an accident that may happen to us al
that it ought to be taken in a democrati
spirit, and accorded the treatment that i
would be pleasant in turn to receive, on
best manners, after all, being but the ex
preston of true Christianity.
Still another unwise and unpleasan
habit of the young people of the presen
and this is not confined to one sex-i
that of monOpolizing attention and taking
on themselves the whole burden of con
versation and entertainment, whereve
they happen to be, quite regardless Of tn
presence of their elders and superiors
who may be a thousand times more fitte
to engross listener and observer-a habi
which makes the boy seem boOrish an
bumptiOus, and the girl pitiably pert an
forward. The young have the world be
fore them; they will do something bette
with their share if they wait and lear
in silence than if they obtrude themselve
as if they had nothing more to hear, an
wisdom would die with them. One
tempted to say that it is enough for tn
young to be young, that the beauty {
youth, the bright color, the full eye, th
velvet cheek, the gay spirit, is enough
without taking pains to make it all tC
obvious; the rose which bushes by itse
in quiet places of the garden is far mol
attractive than the rose that every win
has rifed and every bee has rumpled.-
Harpers Bazaar.