The Opelousas courier., 1889-03-02

manner should the gallant
retlre TO a tobacco Office or !
booksellers, where, If he can not read
ne can occupy himself with tobacco
smoke and inquire who has writ
against the divine weed. But If in
departing from the church he should
meet a knight or squire he must salute
MN tamiliarly as Ned or Jack. as nv
'nls means he will raise himself in the
Summation OF great men; and he is to
DC careful to let it be known that he
intends to dine at some well-known
and expensive ordinary. After dinner.
having changed his suit. if he has
n TO Change. he must again appear
N the walk, this time using a tooth
PICK In public, whether he has dined
or not. for that secret is known best to
MS own stomach.
81. faurs was also a refuge for tho
unhappy gallant who was deep in his
'faoesmen's books, as the Dukes tomb
was a sanctuary, and there the debtor
might spend a winter afternoon yerv
comfortably in talking. plotting and
laughing and might even Jest at his
creator to his face; while in the even
ing ne might steal out by lamplight,
and SO cheat the bailifs. But a true
man OF fashion must never enter the
cnolr when divine service is being
celebrated except on a high festival,
and then only to show off his clothes.
when the choir-boys, catching sight
OF his silver spurs, flock round him
like a cloud of whitea butterflies to
claim 'spur-money," he is to take out
MS pertumed purse and to s'quoit
silver into the boys hands, that it NAV
be heard above the first lesson. al
though 1t be read in a voicetas big as
n OF the great organs" This be-
naVlor OF the choir-boys actually dur
ing service would show a carelessness
IN the conduct of divine worship which
would account for the poverty of the
music in st. Paurs, so much COM
planned of by Mr.. Pepys in his diary.
Another direction is curious. By
no means is the gallant to lift his hat
to another, uEfess the others hatband
be of a new fashion and three degrees
qua1nter; but as all the fashions are to
be g e for nothing in Duke Hum
phrey's Walk every day in the week, if
any n fashion be fancied. the gallant
has only to bring his tailor into the
church and point out the fashion he
prefers, w~hereupon the tailor nay
make his notes, and forthwith can i'm
mediately prepare a suit of clothes Of
the admired color and pattern.
A e country gentleman should
by no means presume to walk In the
principal part of the church until he
has paid a visit to the steep1e, where
he may serawl his name on the leads
with his knife; or, if he can not write,
he may make the mark he puts upon
his sheep, as by this meal his name
will lie in a coffin of lead when he
himself is in his winding-sheet.
The last visit should be to the great
dial, when the curious motion of the
clockwork wiz repay the visit, be-
sides the opportunity which it affords
of showing the world the possession
of a watch by taking it out and COM
pairing it with the time of Paul's.
Such we're the principal features OF
St. Paul's and the occupations of it's
frequenters, a place of gossip, idle
ness and business, which, has passed
away as though 1t was. Since
it's day, manners and customs have
undergone 9 vast change, and v 9 If
much Of the change be only external
for the most part, non can deny the
great improvement in our modern way
of treating sacred places and build
ings.-Chambers' Journal