Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-02-23

count OF their clothes becoming
estate" and accustomed to the spec
tatora Rather should the gallant
retire to tobacco Office or a
booksellers, whore. II he can not read,
he can occupy himself with tobacco
smoke and inquire who has writ
against the divine weed. But II in
departing from the church he should
meet knight or squire he must salute
him familiarly as Ned or Jack, as by
this means he will raise himself in the
estimation OF great men; and he is to
be careful to let it be known that he
intends to dine at some well-known
and expensive ordinary. After dinner,
having changed his suit, il he has
one to change. he must again appear
in the Walk, this time using tooth
pick in public, whether he has dined
or not, for that secret is known best to
his own stomach.
St. Pauls was also refuge for the
unhappy gallant who was deep in his
tradesmen's books, as the Dukes tomb
was a sanctuary, and there the debtor
might spend winter afternoon very
comfortably in talking, plotting and
laughing, and might even Jest at his
creditor to his face; while in the even
ing he might steal out by lamplight,
and so cheat the bailiffs. But a true
man of fashion must never enter the
choir when divine service is being
celebrated except ON 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 white butterflies to
claim "spur-money," he is to take out
his perfumed purse and to "quoit
silver into the boys hands, that 1t may
be heard above the first lesson, al
though it be read in voice as big as
one of the great organs" This be-
havior 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, unless the others hatband
be of a new fashion and three degrees
quainter; but as all the fashions are to
be seen for nothing in Duke Hum
phrey's Walk every day in the week, If
any one fashion be fancied, the gallant
has only to bring his tailor into the
church and point out the fashion he
prefers, whereupon the tailor may
make his notes, and forthwith can i'm
mediately prepare suit Of clothes OF
the admired color and pattern.
A mere country gentleman should
by no means presume to walk in the
principal part Of the church until he
has paid visit to the steeple, where
he may scrawl 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 means his name
will lie in 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 will repay the visit, be-
sides the opportunity which it affords
of showing the world the possession
of watch by taking it out and COM
pairing it with the time of Paurs.
Such were the principal features OF
st. Paul's and the occupations of its
frequenters, a place of gossip, idle
ness and business, which has passed
away as though it never was. Since
its day, manners and customs have
undergone a vast change, and even if
much of the change be only external
for the most part, none can deny the
great improvement in our modern way
of treating sacred places and build
ings.-ChambHrs' Journal.