Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-04-29
SOCIETY MEN OF LONDON.
Z leading English Paper Accuses Tl.s@
OF Being Lazy and Selfish.

Z Ieadin. English Paper Accuses Tl~~@
OF Being Lazy and selfish.
A careful and, so far as we have been
able 20 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 il without parallel in any other
period Of our history. \ concurrence
Of the two vices is TO be traced, they
think, 10 the fact that he has almost
ceased, or at any rate he is rapidly
ceasing, TO dance. Ii is in vain that
he will plead the absorbing occupations
Of modern life, or the saddening in
luenee of the philosophy of SchopeF
haner. The plea is idle.
IL h not the overweight student O.
the pale pessimist alone who declines
nowadays to join in the may danos
1t is the dashing, or once dashing, mill
taire. The singular boast which W .
Once the monopoly of the Tenth he1
ears will soon be the common proPesg
Of every cavalry and infantry regirnsnt
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 IRE any less fond OF
dIAseing than they used 70 be; the
partner difficulty isGeated by the male
ser alone. In other words the young
man of she present day, having ceased
to are about this particular anus
ment himself, is in the majority Of
Eases too indolent and too selfish "a
take part in it for the sake of gratifying
sther persons of that sex which it il
supposed TO be mans duty. no less than
hs delight TO attempt to please. Such
RAf Rnihoe however, finds no votary
IN the IN de steele youth. To uss hn
own expressive phrase, 1t is not good
enough. don't you know, and he de
eliDes it accordingly.
The wretch concentrated all on
Slf' looks on at a fev dances, and sur
veys the rows Of forfom and unasked
maidens who line the sides Of the bah
room and leaves early for a cigaretts
and a lemon squash at his club. We
are prepared. of course, for the ansveI
which our young man of the period,
thus roughly but righteously han
died. is likely 20 make TO US. He viii
say that this is word for word-eXcepi
a. O. the cigarette and lemon squash
identical with what his grandfathel
once listened 20 from his great grand
father and repeated some Thirty year
after % his father.
There j. % spcciousnc>s about thi
Argument which might, perhaps de
ceive the uuthinkin- and BE- is there
fore well 90 remind them az the wei
established fact that tle -rlujfathe
Of the youth 1l tine present day al
though worthy people in many ways
were extremely prejudiccd. wherea
their -au,. the fathers and uncles o
our contemporary young men, are ad
mittodly capable Of instituting a fl.
and impartial comparison between tn
men and amen Of the present anC
the past.
Instead Of resorting to plausible bu
fallacious retOrts Of the ad hOminen
description We counsel our youths b
resolve 10 cultivate the virtues of cour
tesy, kindliness and self sacrifice L
Others, to determine that they will dis
play in future a chivalrous attention
70 ladies and register a vow that elder
Of their own sex snail never fail to re
ceive from them the due tribute o
Difference and respect-LondOn Tels
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