Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-21
SOCIETY," MEN OF LONDON.
4 leading English Paper Accuses TlNsu
of Being Lazy and Selfish.

4 leading English Paper Accuses Tbsna
Of Being Lazy and Selfish.
A careful and, so far as we have been
abb, 70 compass it, an impartial study
Of the young man Of the present day
has convinced many persons that he is
abnormaIly lazy, and that his selfish
ness il without parallel in any other
period Of our history. A concurrence
of the two vices is L be traced, they
think, TO the fact that he has almoa
ceased, or at any rate he is rapidly
ceasing, TO dance. 1t is in vain thai
he will plead the absorbing occupations
of modern life, or the saddening in
fuence Of the philosophy Of SchoPe9
haDer. The plea is ida
1t Is not the overweight student a
the pale pessimist alone who declines
nowadays TO join in the may danoa
1t Is the dashing, or once dashing, mill
tAine. The singulG boast which we
once the monopoly Of the Tenth heU
ars will soon be the common proPeuN
of every cavalry and infantry regim-nt
of her majesty's army, while as for the
learned professions, their members
make fresh contributions TO the row Of
wall flowers every season.
Yet there seems to be no ground for
saying that girls are any less fond Of
dLH1cing than they used 70 be; the
partner difficulty is created by the male
ser alone. In other words, the young
man of .he present day, having ceased
10 care about this particular ANUS
nent himself, is in the majority Of
rases too indolent and too selfish to
take part in it for the sake of gratifying
Uther persons of that sex which il is
supposed to BE- mans duty, no less than
his delight. to attempt to please. Such
self sacrifice, however, finds no votary
in the IN de steele youth To use his
own expressive phrase, it is not good
enough. don't you know" and he de-
elines it accordingly.
The wretch concentrated all on
self looks on at a few dances. and sur
veys the rows of forlon and unasked
maidens who line the sides of the ball
room and leaves early for a cigarette
and a lemon squash at his club. We
are prepared. of course, for the answe
which our young man of the period
thus roughly but righteOusly han
died" is likely 10 make 10 US. He Will
say that this is word for word-excepi
as to the cigarette and lemon squash
identical with what his grandfather
/ once listened 20 from his great grand
father and repeated some thirty year
after to his father.
There u a speciousness about tht,
Argument which might, perhaps, de
ceive the ~unthinking, and it is there
fore well TO remind them of the vel
established fact that the grandfathea
of the youth Of the present day, al
though worthy people in many ways
were extremely prejudiced, whereas
( their sons, the fathers and uncies O
our contemporary young men, are ad
mitteAly capable of instituting a fac
and impartial comparison between th'
men and manner of the present and
the past.
Instead Of resorting to plausible bu
fallacious retOrts of the ad homineu
description we counsel our youths b
resolve 20 cultivate the virtues of cour
tesy. kindliness and self sacrifice u
Others, TO determine that they will dis
play in future a chivalrous attention
TO ladies and register a vow that elder
of their " sex snail never fail to re
ceive from them the due tribute o
Difference and respect-London Tels
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