Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-06-01
SOMETHING TO BE NOTED.
BAD MANNERS OF OUR YOUNG
 FOLKS OF THE FAIR SEX.

Objectionable Ways Which Lessen the At tra~!iv-ness of sIaidenhood-A Practice
 fin Era Er,aveIiu::-Munchirs Candies in Publ. Piaees-An Unwiso Habit
 The traveller nf years or wisdom. accus
 toned to much exercise of his powers oi | observation, or we'll acquainted with ths
 world. will have noticed that the young
 women of this period. and perhaps of at other periods as we'll have one or tive ways of thci, own which are more or less
 to E'' regretted: end which it would he
 well ios tlcIn tu look tp and correct whtls they may. ssI e once established with
 acquic::ri.t uI,.l5e no habit is easily to b<
 overt brown
 Ttea. ways of our young ladies srs
 ways wl.i-!I take of from the ploosaxt
 bloo:l 0! i.I,'ir tlaidenhood. and give them
 often q coarse grained and vulgar air,
 which none would regret more thausthau-
 selves were they but aware of it, for thay
 must know that few things are moro rn-
 lovely ia young girls than those which
 venture on the bold the brusque. the
 assumption of too much savoir- faire, og
 the obtrusion of themselves upon public
 notice
 One of these objectionable ways of oui
 pretty dansels is a habit they have in
 traveling-and one which could hardly
 have existed before the days of railways, as stage couch authorities would never
 have winked 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 fair travellers feet-a custom very observable in the frequent suburban trains. It 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 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 frown and an angry sweep ing aside of the parcels. As for the feet dpon the opposite seat when it has been turned over. it goes without saying that lady, young or old. must be exceedingly Ql or weary. and in a much greater de- gree than ordinary railway travel sees, fn 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 ali public places. in fact, sometimes not even ex- cepting church. the vulgarity of which act in any public place whatevef Is ap- parent at aglance-vulgarity Of bad taste. of appetite. and of the display of eating. as well as of the scattering of tho redo lence of the candies upon the atmosphere In many instances. the habit being one which has inspired the witty pencils of many among our eminent caricaturists A custom aS much worse than this as un. kindness and want of consideration are worse thas vulgarity is that of regarding the late colners of theatres or concert who enter quietly, anxious to make as little disturbance as may be, vexed with themselves more than any one else can be vexed with them-as if they were some thing only short of murderers, rising the while with an air of unspeakable hauteur. and drawing back as if the touch of their garments were deflement, assuming scorn of the proceeding and the proceeders which really is only anger at being dis turbed- Of course it is disagreeable to gather up all one's goods and rise in this way, but the tardiness is SO much an accident that may happen to us all that 1t ought to be taken in democratic spirit, and accorded the treatment that it would be pleasant in turn to receive, our best manners. after all, being but the ex- pression of true Christianity.
 Still another unwise and unpleasant | habit of the young people of the present l and this is not confined tt one sex-is l that of monopolizing attention and taking | on themselves the whole burden of con | and entertainment, wherever | they happen to be. quite regardless of the | presence of their elders and superiors, who may be thousand times more fitted f 10 engross listener and observer-a habit | which makes the boy seem boorish and and the girl pitiably pert and forward. The young have the world be fore them: they will do something better | with their share if they wait and learr n silence than if they obtrude themselves IS if they had nothing more to hear, and wisdom would die with them. One is tempted to say that it is enough for the young to be young, that the beauty of | youth. the bright color. the full eye, the 7el~et cheek. the gay spirit. is enough. without taking pains to make it all too obvious: the rose which bushes by itself n quiet places of the garden is far more attractive than the rose that every wind las rifled and every bee has rumpled.- 1arper's Bazaar