Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-20
HOW SWELLSSHOULDACT
ESSENTIAL nlcETlEs IN "cULcHAW"
AND DEPARTMENT."


carries his stick"
gloves"
"Yaas, and he walks like drayman."
Cad, he's goin to bow to that gel. Sor-
ray faw the paw gel Watch him."
sAhl ahl What an awful duffer. If
couldn't bow better than that I'd stop at
home"
"Yaas.. So would l."
Lets go to the club and sit down; that
sort of thing makes me awfully tired"
Tie man criticised was conspicuous, and
it was all because he hadn't sufficient
knowledge of culchaw and department.
He was faultlessly dressed, but that didn't
save him. Whether to take soup from the
side or from the end of spoon is mat
ter of culture but whether to carry tho.
gloves with the fingers forward or with IL e
fingers back is a matter of culchaw
Everybody that is anybody knows all
about culture and department, but cul-
chaw and department include the little
niceties of manner and conduct about
which many people have a great deal to
learn. Without culchaw and department
it is impossible to be swell.
The WALK.
A swell must walk at times, no matter
how many broughams and horses he may
have, and it is no more than proper to give
the walk precedence. The walk is an ac
auirement a man gets very early in life
but he never begins to walk in the proper
way until he is proposed for membership
in good club This is the way: Legs
stiff, no elasticity; body well forward. no
elasticity; head well back, no elasticity
and steps about two and half feet long
OF course there are variations Going to
a funeral the man about town should walk
briskly and as if he enjoyed it. Thereby
he demonstrates his perfect repose of man
ner and shows that it is not influenced by
mere external circumstances. Going to a
wedding he should walk slowly and look
bored and thoroughly convinced that mar
riage is "A failure
In entering a ballroom the walk may be
elaborated to almost any extent. A man
should wear his evening walk just as he
wears his evening clothes, for the OCCASION
Then there are variations of the walk
aside from those of formality and stiffness
The most noticeable of these is that EN-
ployed when the expert walker walks with
a gel" When thus agreeably employee.
he should invariably face her and walk
sideways like a crab. This will at first be
found rather difficult, but practice makes
perfect, and the gel" who will not put up
with being stepped on few times and
bumped with pair of unaccustomed knees
few times has not a proper appreciation
of culchaw and department. In walking
with the gel the student should care
fully avoid keeping step. The step to
gether is for common soldiers, convicts
clerks cypincr her Tn hrlSinacS and do
who disregard culchaw and department
Gentlemen never walk in step. 1t shows
too much generalization and thought, and
is not in keeping with the mental idleness
which should characterize gentlemen.
IMPORTANCE OF THE BOW.
Walking having been considered, it is
now necessary to take mp standing still
and sitting down. To describe these &C
complishments it is perhaps sufficient to
say that in standing the real swell should
look as though he would prefer to sit, and
in sitting he should convey the impression
that he would prefer to stand. If he does
this he can hardly fail to look sufficiently
bored
Now comes the bow, most useful ac
complishment, in fact the most useful one
in connection with culchaw and depawt-
ment. a man of real culchaw should be
able to insult a man grossly with his bow
upon occasion, and he should also be able
to bow SO that the bowee would not hest
tate about lending him 500 without secu-
rity. This bow is most difficult.
All bows may be divided into two classes
the short bow without raising the hat,
which may be either insulting or pleasing,
and the long Lord Chesterfield bow for
gels" which may convey either mere
recognition or the deepest regard. For the
shor. bow merely snap the head. If it is
intended to be insulting the person to be
insulted should be looked at with a sort of
"By-Jove-I-don't -see-you-a and I-don't-like
your-looks" stare, and then the head
should he snapped very short.
To please it should be moved slower and
with a smile This can hardly fail to
please. The long Lord Chesterfield bow is
much more laborious. but it is also much
more impressive. To accomplish it grasp
the hat firmly by the front of the rim;
imagine fly about eighteen inches from
the tip of the nose and try to hit it with
the crown of the hat. then smile as if in
exultation at having hit il, and as the hat
is replaced look at the bowee for approba-
ton aud appreciation of the dexterity dis
played.
CARRTING STICKS, GLOVES, ETC.
Dictated by the enthusiasm shown in hit
ting at the fly 1t is well to practice in the
mirror
Shaking hands is much less a part OF
culchaw and department than it once was
1t is too much work. Men don't do it very
much, and as rule when au acquaintance
offers to shake hands it is quite proper not
| TO see his hand aud to merely bow. II it
is an undesirable acquaintance, look n. his
hand as though there was some doubt
about its cleanliness or as though his
gloves were not in good taste, and then de
liver the stony stare and short bow 1t is
sometimes necessary to shake hands. For
| instance, prospective father-ip-law may
| be an old timer and used to shaking hands
II he is to be humored it should be done
| daintily. The hand should be presented
on level with his upper shirt stud, and
the motion of the shake should be straight
up and down.
Fewer well dressed and culchawed men
| carry walking sticks now than formerly.
| If q stick is carried it should not be walked
/ with r. should ba liuhf h,t rba,,ld -,