Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-03-10
SOCIETY MEN or LONDON.
A Leading gnrIi.h Paper Accuses Them
Of Being Lazy asd ssiash.

OF Bsine Lazy nrd srihsh.
A careful and, 20 far NJ we have beef
able to compass Il, nm impartial stud
Of the young man 81 the present da,
Inns convinced many persons that he |
abnonnally lazy, and that his scid b
ness Is without parallel In any othe
period Of our history A concurrence
Of the two vices Is TO be triccd. ihe]
think, to the fact that he has alnos
ceased, or at any rate iic IA rapid,
ccasing. 20 dance. II j. IN vain thai
ho will plead the absorbing occupations
OF modern life or the sadscning IN
Thence Of tho philosophy Of Schopcn
haucr The plea l. idle.
II i not the overweight student OF
the pale pcssimist alone who declines
nowadays To join In the mary dance.
II j. tho dashing, or once dnshing. mill
tnirc. Tho singular boat which was
once the monopoly Of the Tcnth lIus'
sars will soon DO the common property
OF every cayalry and infantry regiment
Of her inniesty's army, while as for tho
learned professions, tlleir members
make fresh contributions TO the row "
wall fowcrs' every season.
Yet there seems TO be- no ground for
saying thai girls ac any Les. fond Of
dancing than they used To be; the
partner difficulty iscrated 10y the male
set alone. In other words, the young
man 81 the present day, having ceased
10 care about this particular nmusc-
mcnt himself, i Ia the majority Of
cases too indolcnt and too selfish to
take part Ia Il foe the sake Of gratifying
other porrous Of that scS which II I,
supposed TO bc mans duty, no loss than
hi- delight. to attempt to please. Such
self sacrifice, however, finds no votary
In the iin de steele youth. 10 use his
own expressive phrase, IL Is mot good
enough don't you know, and he de.
clinca Il accordingly.
Tho wretch concentrated all on
self looks on at "a few dances, and sur.
ycys the rows ~ forlofn and unaskcd
who line the sides III the ball.
room and leaves early for cigarette
and y lemon squash at his club. We
arc prepared, Of course, for the answer
which our young man OF the period.
hus roughly but righicously han.
He'd, p l. likely 10 inako TO ~ ifc will
ay that thi, 4 word ior word -csccpt
i TO tho cigarette and lemon squash
IDENTICAL with what his grandfather
NEE llstonci to from his great grand.
nthcr and repeated some thirty years
iicr to his father
There y n spcciousness about this
fRiimcnt which might. perhaps. de.
Give the unthinking, and Il i there
lrc well TO remind .thcm Of tho we'll
established fact that the grandfather
tho youth Of tho present day. al.
rough worthy people IN many ways,
orc extremely preiudicod. whereas !
icir sans, the fathers and unclcs Of
ar contemporary young men are al.
iiicdly capable of iusiltuting u fair
I'd Impartial comparison between the
On and manners Of tho present and
IL past.
Instead Of rcsortins to plausible hut
llacious nc;orts at the al homlnein
'scription We counsel our youths to
solve 10 cultivate the virtues Of cour.
~ kindiincss and self sncriilce 10
hen, TO determine that they will dis
~ Ia future % chiyalrous attention
ladies and register vow that elder,
their own sex shall never fail to re.
'vc from them the duo tribute Of
ference and rc-pect.--London Tcle.
iph.