Arizona silver belt., 1889-12-28
STREET CAR MANNERS.
Observations Upon One or Two Commo
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Observations Upon One or Two Common
 Types of Boorishness.
 One day last week car on one of the Traction Companys lines became pretty well crowded with passengers, mostly ladies, before its trip was half made In the corner next the rear door sat well-dressed lad of sixteen. evidently the son of parents in good circumstances. Within a space of two squares three old men, none of whom were less than seventy, one nearly blind and all more or less crippled, got in the car. Seats were furnished for two of them by gentlemen who stood, and gray-haired lady gave the third her seat The boy never moved or gave the least indication that he knew or cared whether older or helpless peo- pie were standing while he was con- fortably seated.
 . If this boorish and ill-mannered boy was the only one Of his type it would be hardly worth while to refer to the matter. But unfortunately he is not. There are hundreds and thousands like him. In many cases. perhaps, these lads are more to be pitied than blamed. Any one who witnessed the selfishness and want of courtesy shown by the lad in question recognized that defective home-training was at the root of his ill-mannered selfshness. He has not been taught respect for age or sym. fa,. ha1,Nlar-pn=e Thapafnva hn failed to exercise either. Would it not be worth whi,e for parents and teach CTS while teaching the boys a good many other things to teach them man. ners, too? If they can be induced to do it from love of good manners on their own part, they should do it for very shame, for every exhibition of selfish boorishness like the one above mentioned is an advertisement to the world that all the world reads of lack of proper home-training. The boorish boy gives away his boorish parents or teachers.
 In the same car, before it became quite so crowded, was another boor- the fellow who folds and unfolds his newspaper, digging his elbows into the passengers on each side of him while doing so. This fellow is in almost every morning and evening car. His elbows are worn sharp by constant practice, as thousands of his fellow riders can testify from painful experi- ence. He is worse than the boy who hasn't been taught good manners and self, for the newspaper boor is usually a full-grown and often middle-aged man. There is another type of the newspaper boor found in most street cars. He is the fellow who gets in soon after the car starts and becomes so absorbed in his newspaper that he can't see other people standing, while he and his newspaper occupy the space of two or more seats.
 Really, it is hardly to be wondered at that half-grown boys sit in supreme and unconscious seldshness while crip- pied age stands, when they are furnish ed so many examples of bOorish selfish ness by those that should be their teach CTS and exemplars in courtesy. Can't some kind-hearted and wealthy philan- thropist be induced to found an institu- tion for the reformation of the various adult street car boors, including, be- sides those just mentioned, the cross. legged boor, the fellow whose cane or umbrella is stuck out to trip other pas sengers, and all the other examples of the genus boor? If these ill-mannered fellows were reformed, perhaps the half-grown lads might learn street-car courtesy by the process of imitation Philadelphia Times.