The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-03-17
SOCIAL TRIPLES.
Small Omissions Which Create Un'avor'
able Comment.


able Comment.
Many small amenities which the un-
accustomed regard as among the fads
Of fashionable life, and altogether
whimsical, unnec sessary and absurd,
will really be found established upon
reason If once looked into with any
scrutiny.
Where the loud speaking woman is
stamped as vulgar, for example, it is
not only beca ise the association con-
meets her loud voice with the fish
women of Billiugsgate,. but because the
loud voice is uusuited t. dwelling
allo MS every one to know all the speak
er's business and often that of other peo-
pie, and betrays, if not coarse nature,
at least an unframed and uncultivated
manner viii e, bad as it is indoors, it
acts greatly worse part without,
where it attracts attention and invites
insult; but without and within it is I'M
womanly, and it being generally adj
mitted that the part of ref aement,
good bree ling and good feeling is to
excite as lit e remark as possible upon
the street. the loud tone is then at once
recognized as vulgarity.
The necessity OF chaperonage for a
Young girl is another thing that pro.
vokes the derision of those unaccus-
toned to it In the days of earlier
simplicity before great ri hes had
made great want, and great want had
largely increased the criminal and
idling class, and before much of the
worst OF the older civilizations had
onage may have been unnecessary;
then, it is quite poss ible. woman or a
young girl might have gone from one
end of the land to the other
unattended and in perfect safety
like the jeweled lady who
hundreds of years ago, traversed Ire
land unmolested. But to-day we would
none of us like to send young daugh-
ter abroad in that fashion. 1t is not
however, from fear of any romantic
kidnapping or from dread of any posi-
tive Injury, nor even to allay the de.
grading Suspicion which has crept in
from the old world that, being at liber-
ty and having the opportunity to go
astray, of course advantage will be
taken OF the fact, that we do not wish
our young lady to g. to the theater
alone, or upon thronged business streets,
or into the quarters where vice turks,
or even to take journeys unattended.
but because one who knows the way of
the world. and who has q superiority OF
years and of experience. is able to c ,n-
duct the Young girl through such paths
see the wrong, nor be touched by it,
nor so much as know that it exists, as
one leads another over muddy walks
in safe footprints.
AS much contempt is showered upon
the system OF visiting cards as anything
e'se in the line of social niceties; but
when 1t is remembered that the card
represents the individual, as tn, bank
bill represents the go d cola, it will be
seen that the card is sent on an embas-
sy, and PLAYS useful part in S ,cial di-
plomacy. Bit Of pasteboard as it is, it
pays compliments, acknowledges at
tention, serves in place Of its owne r.
invites decliaes, apologies. and does
the work OF factotum we'll that,
like beauty, It has its own excuse for
being. And If we looked into the mat
ter still more at length, without doubt
we would find that 10 almost every in
stance the thing criticised is valuable
usage. -Harper's Bazaar.
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