Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-03-13
soclEIY M o. LoNpoN.
n leading English Paper Accuses Them
of Being Lazy and Selfish.


of Being Lazy and Selfish.
A careful and, so far as we have been
ablt 70 compass il, 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 any other
period of our history. \ concurrence
of the two vices is TO be traced, they
think. TO the fact hat he has almost
ceased, or at any rate he is rapidly
ceasing. 70 dance. 1t is in vain hat
he will plead the absorbing occupations
of modern life, or the saddening in
fiBence Of the philosophy Of Schopen-
hauer. The plea is idle.
1t is not the overweight student 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 hus
Ears will soon be the common property
of every cavalry and infantry regiment
of her majesty's army, while as for the
leaned professions, their members
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wall howers' every season.
Yet there seems TO be no ground for
saying that girls are any less fond Of
dancing than they used to be; the
partner difficulty is created by the male
ser alone. In other words. the young
man of the present day, having ceased
to care about tb particular amuse-
ment himself, is in the majority of
cases too indoler and too selfish 70
take part in it 70 the sake Of gratifying
other persons o that sex which il is
supposed TO be Ian's duty. no less than
his delight. to . tempt 10 please. Such
self sacridce. = viewer. finds no vOtary
IN the En- &c ecle youth To use his
own expressi phrase. it is not good
enough, don't you know, 80 and he de
elines 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
and a lemon squash at his club. We
are prepared, Of course, for the answer
which young man of the period,
thus roughly but righteously han
died, - is likely to make Z US. He will
say that this is word for word-except
as to the cigarette and lemon squash
identical with what his grandfather
once listened TO from his great grand
father and repeated some thirty years
after t. his father.
There j. q sp~eciOusness about this
Argument which might, perhaps, de
oeive the unthinking, and it is there
fore we'll 70 remind them Of the well
established fact that the grandfather
Of the youth Of the present day, al
though worthy people in many ways.
were extremely preiudiced, whereas
their sons. the fathers and uncles of
our contemporary young men, are ad-
mittOdiy capable of i%nstituting a fair
and impartial comparison between the
men and manner of the present and
the past.
Instead Of resorting to plausible but
fAIlacious retOrts of the ad hominem
description we counsel our youths TO
resolve 10 cultivate the virtues of ccur-
tesy, kindliness and self sacrifice 20
Others, 10 determine hat they will dis
play in future a chivalroUs attention
TO ladies and register n vow that elders
of their own sex shall never fail 10 re-
ceive from them the due tribute of
Difference and respect-London Tele-
graph.