Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-17
/ SOMETHING TO BE NOTED.
BAD MANNERS OF OUR YOUNG
FOLKS OF THE FAIR SEX.

Objectionable Ways which Lessen the At
Effectiveness Of Maidenhood-A Practice
IN Observation-Disclosures Candies In Public
Places-An UDwise Habit
The traveller of years or wisdom accus
toned TO much exercise of his powers OF
observation, or well acquainted with the
world Il have noticed that the young
women ri this period, and perhaps OF all
other periods as well, have one or two
WAYS of their owa which are more or less
to he regretted, and which it would be
we'll for them to look to and correct while
they may, since once established with
aconiescent usage no habit is easily to be
overthrown
These ways of our young ladies' are
wavs which take off from the pleasant
bloom of their maidenhood. and give them
often a coarse grained and vulgar air,
which none would regret more than them
selves we're they but aware of it. for they
must know that few things are more un
lovely in Young girls than those which
venture on the bold, the brusque, the
assumption of too much savoir-faire, or
the obtrusion of themselves upon public
notice
One of these Objectionable ways of our
nrettv damsels is a habit they have In
traveling-and one which could hardly
have existed before the days OF railways,
as stage coach 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. IL
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 a scat, no motion
of withdrawal from the usurpation is
made, the new conner has to ask II the
place is occupied, and instead of pleasant
answer or reassurng. not to say welcom
ing smile receives grudginS negative
| or else no reply at all in words, but IN
their place a frown and an angry sweep
ing aside of the parcels AS for the feet
Upon the opposite seat when 1t has been
turned over. it goes without saying that
a lady young or old, must be exceedingly
ii or weary, and in a much greater de
gree than ordinary railway travel sees, in
order to Justify her in lifting her feet into
any such position.
Another unpleasant habit of our young
ladies is that of munching candies al
matineas. concerts, lectures, at all public
places, in fact sometimes not even ex
cepting church, the vulgar!ty OF which
act in any public place whatever is APP
parent at glance garity of bad taste.
of appetite and of the display of eating,
as well as of the scattering of the redo
J 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
custom as much worse than this as I'm
kindness and want of consideration are
worse than vulgarity is that of regarding
; the late corners 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 bt
, 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 theil
garments were deiilement, assuming
scorn of the proceeding and the proceeder:
: which really is only anger at being dis
1 turbed. OF course it is disagreeable t.
/ gather up all ones goods and rise in thi
t way but the hardness is so mucl
p an accident that may happen to us al
that it ought TO be taken in a democrats
spirit, and accorded the treatment that i
would be pleasant in turn to receive, GU
best manners, after ALL being but the ex
preston of true Christianity.
Still another unwise and unpleasant
e habit Of the young people of the presen
a and this is not confined to one sex-i
/, that of monopolizing attention and takin.
f on themselves the whole burden of con
q versation and entertainment, whereVe
f they happen to be, quite regardless of tn
= presence of their elders and superiors
who may be thousand times more fittet
5 to engross listener and Observer habi
+ which makes the boy seem boorish ant
: bumptious, and the girl pitiably pert ant
IS forward The young have the world be
i fore them; they will do something bette
q with their share if they wait and lear
in silence than if they obtrude themselve
as if they had nothing more to hear, an
wisdom would die with them. One
tempted to say that it is enough for tn
it young to be young, that the beauty o
n youth, the bright color. the full eye, tn
|. velvet cheek, the gay spirit, is enough
g without taking pains to make 1t all to
obvious; the rose which bushes by itsel
in quiet places of the garden is far NOR
attractive than the rose that every win
d has rif1ed and every bee has rumpled.-