Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-09-24
THE HOG FAMILY.
Some Plain Talk to the Fellow Who Is
Numerous In This Broad Land.


Numerous In This Broad Land.
The Hog family is not American, nor
b il by any means peculiar to this
country. The Lady MavourEeen who
said with enthusiasm that she could
travel without insult from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, and that every American
Of the other sex seemed to make him
self her protector said only what is
generally true of the American. He Is
naturally courteous and invincibly good
natured Indeed, it Is his good nature
which has permitted the family Hog to
develop to such proportions. A man
enters q hotel "as II It belonged to
him." Will he not be forced to pay
for his accommodation land roundlyi
Shall he not take his ease In his innl
ls be not willing to settle for all the
food. drink. comfort. trouble that he
may require or occasioni Shall he put
himself out for otherf II number
one does not look out for itself who
will look out for itl
And to all this Jonathan good nat
uredly assenta II number one takes
more than his share of the sofa iona
than moves up. II number one puts
bis feet on chair. Jonathan does not
stare II number one still more gross
ly demonstrates his porcine lineage.
Jonathan dislikes to make trouble
until number one comes to despise
those whom he insults. and plainly ex-
poets every circle to bow to the sover.
eighty of seltishness This is fatal
form of good nature. but it has IA not
unkindly origin. 1t springs from
social condition in which everybody is
expected to help everybody else, be-
cause everybody needs help AS in a
frontier community. Indeed. in many
a rural neighborhood still this spirit Of
lending hand issupreme. Everybody
expects to submit to Inconvenience, be.
cause he knows that he will require
Others to submit.
But these retinements OF mutual de.
pendence must not be allowed to justify
the outrages of seliislIness The pas.
senger in the boat or the train who oc,
cupies more than his seat, who sits in
one chair, covers another with his
feet and third with his bundles.
and smokes, and widely squits tobacco
juice around him until his vicinity is
not "a little heaven" but another kind
of III" below. is a public pest and gen.
eral nuisance. for whose punishment
there should be common law of pro.
cedure. But this can be found only
where there il common contempt and
resolution which will deprive him of
his i'll gotten seats IN the first place. and
make him feel. in the second. the gen.
eral scorn of his nsi.lIbors
But as we are told constantly and
correctly that We are n reading people.
1t is through reading that the members
of the family which il hosts humani
generis will learu THAT they are the
most detestable and detested Of the
great families of the race. You. sir,
whose eyes are sliilnining this page. and
who never give yonr seat to a woman
In the elevated car ION principle" the
principle being either that woman
ought not to get into crowded car.
knowing that she will put gentlemen
to inconvenience. or that the company
ought to forbid the entry Of more pas
sengers than there ARE seats; or that
first come should be lirst served; or
that number one. having paid for q
seat. has right to occnpy il or what
ever other form the principle" may as
sume-yOu are one Of the host against
whom the crusade is pushed. Thou
art the-well. for the sake u euphony
We will say man. but il is not man that
is in the mind Of your censors.
Or you. madam. who cnter the rail.
road car with ai ar oi right, and
look of reproyal at very man who does
not spring TO hs fcri. aud who settle
yourself into tine seat offered you with
out the least recognition 81 the courtesy
that offers it--fcr you it would be well
II the urbane mentor of another day
were still hero. who. having given his
seat to dashing young woman who
seemed unrp,Iscious oT his Drpspnca
looked at her until she iinpatiently de-
manded II he wanted anything and he
responding said Jlandly, Yes, madam;
] want to hear you say thank you"
Both this sir and madam may learn
from the daily papers as from this page
that even in car where they recognize
no acquaintance cloud of witnesses
around hold them in full survey, and
whatever the fashion or richness OF
their garments. and however super
cilious their air, perceive at once
whether they belong to the family Of
ladies and gentlemen, or to that Of
Charles Lambs Mr. H." Thackeray's
hero could not have been more aghast
to see his divine Ottilia consume with
gusto the oysters which were no longer
fresh than Romeo 10 learn by his
Juliet's question to that urbane mentor
of other years that his mistress must he
OF kin to the uncomfortable family
Georpe William Curfis In Harner's