Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-04-07
SOCIETY MEN OF LONDON.

A Leading English Paper Accuses ThsA
of Being Lazy and Selfish.
A careful and, 50 far as we have been
able TO compass it, an impartial study
of the young man of the present day
has convinced many persons that he Is
abnormally lazy, and that his selfish
ness is without parallel in n other
period Of our history. A concurrence
Of the two vices is TO be traced, they
think, to the fact that he has almost
ceased, or at any rate he Is rapidly
ceasing, 10 dance. 1t is in vain thai
he will plead the absorbing occupations
of modern life, or the saddening IN
fuenoe of the philosophy of Schopea
haner. The plea is idle.
IL Is not the overweight studen. or
the pale pessimist alone who declines
nowadays to join in the may dance.
1t is the dashing, or once dashing, mill
taire. The singular boast which was
once the monopoly Of the Tenth nus
sars will soon be the common property
of every cavalry and infantry regiment
| of her majesty's army, while as for the
learned professions, their members
make fresh contributions 10 the row Of
wall flowers every season.
Yet there seems TO be no ground for
saying that girls are any less fond Of
dancing than they used 20 be; the
PARTNER difficulty is created by the male
sex alone. In other words the young
man Of the present day, having ceased
TO care about this particular amuse-
ment himself. is in the majority Of
cases too indolent and too selfish to
take part in il for the sake of gratifying
other persons of that sex which il is
supposed 10 be mans duty, 10 less than
his delight. TO attempt 20 please. Such
self sacrifice, however, finds no votary
in the IN de steele youth. To use his
own expressive phrase, it is mot good
enough, don't you know, and he de-
clines il accordingly.
The wretch concentrated all on
self looks on at a few dances, and sur
veys the rows of forlorn and unasked
maidens who line the sides of the ball
room and leaves early for a cigarette
J and a lemon squash at his club. We
r are prepared, of course, for the answer
which our young man of the period
thus roughly but ~righteously han
died" is likely 10 make to US He vii
say that this is word for word-eXcep'
as 70 the cigarette and lemon squash
: identical with what his grandfathe
once listened TO from his great grand
father and repeated some thirty year
after TO his father.
: There IS q speciousness about thi
Argument which might, perhaps, de
eeive the u~nthinking, and IL Is there
y fore well 70 remind them Of the wei
established fact that the g~raDdfathe
of the youth Of the present day, al
though worthy people in many ways
were extremely p~rejudiced, wherea
their SONS. the fathers and uncles Q
our contemporary young men, are ad
mitte1ly capable of instituting a fai
and impartial comparison between tn
men and manners of the present an
the past.
Instead of resorting to plausible bU
~fallacious retOrts of the ad homineI
description we counsel our youths {
. resolve TO cultivate the virtues of coul
tesy. kindliness and self sacrifice I
Is Others, to determine that they will di
IN play in future a chivalrous attentio
10 TO ladies and register a vow that eide
of their own sex snail never fail TO r
ceive from them the due tribute
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