The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-05
ARE AMERICANS RUDE?
"BAB" SAYS WE ARE THE RUDEST
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

Is Politenezs at Premium With UsP
a Few Types of Men-Characters in
Which Chivalry is an Unknown
Quality - A Masculine Leper - Men
Who Retail scandal-Echoes of the
Actors Fair-The Most Popular"
Actors - The Ideal Country Place
A Few summer Contentious.
(Copyriqht.)
New YORK, June 4.-The cheapest thing
in this world, in fact. the one thing that
doesn't cost anything, is polLteness. AS a
people, we are the stingiest with it of any
nation in existence. In England, "thank
yous" are as plentiful as dirt; in France. the
"thank you" has q compliment tackled on to
it; in Germany there is solidity in the
| manner, but the words are there, while in
Italy little act of courtesy will gain for
you not only the most musical of thanks,
but the sweetest Of glances. And we-well,
we take everything for granted. From the
lady who is rich and rare in her gowns, to
the girl behind the counter; from the actor
on Che stage to the writer of books, from the
millionaire to the clerk, all Of these, If they
are of American birth and doing, find il
italian organ-grinder, who bows and kisses
his hand at the receipt of dime, and who
prolongs the wall of MARY and John, " could
give lessons in courtesy to most Of the -Four
Hundred"
| ARE WE A RUDE PEOPLEl
Socially it's miserable state; so 1t is ma
tionally. Gratitude is unknown among the
politicians, and nobody stands ready to
back anybody else forever and forever. 1t
| lie nulu yNhi Ia haNr
What's the reason of it all! We are not an
unkind people, we are not stingy people,
| but we are, with one exception, the rudest
people in the world. We might as we'll
acknowledge this, because it is true 1t
sound q bit brutal, but brutality is the
order OF the day. The average young man
| has all the vices OF the tough without his
courage or goodness of heart; and the aver
age old man has the accumulated vices of
years, to which may be added q nasty
speech and a cynical mode Of observation
Am going back on the menl Well, for
little while. l have been studying the
types that are very prevalent in New York.
A TYPE OF NEW YORK MEN.
One is the tyne which the Frenchman
| cells "le mari complainant" The French
are a polite nation. Here he usually is
married to a pretty woman. He married
| her because he thought she would be of use
TO him. She, poor fool, thinks he loved her
| That type of man loves but one thing in the
world-his despicable self He introduces
to his wife all the men he knows who have
money; he only objects to her acquaintance
with those who lacks it. From that time
on he dimes, drives, is entertained ut the
clubs and doesn't have to spend a cent.
| Then he teaches this woman he is sworn to
| love and honor the part that she is to play.
1t may be that she is to get pointers for
him, so that his speculations may turn out
well. 1t may not be that she Is absolutely
to get money for him, but. IN some way or
another, she il to benefit him at the expense
of her own self. Sometimes
HE HAS DEGRADED HER so
that she enters into the game with zest
Sometimes she refuses to do as he wishes at
first, and is literally forced into it; and
sometimes having the courage of her con-
victions she runs away from him. She
wants to get out OF the tainted atmosphere,
and when she makes this effort she might as
well drown herself ana he done with it, for
he will never cease TO prosecute her. You
think this sounds exaggerated. 1t doesn't
begin to tell Of the worst, and it is the sort
OF thing that makes any right-minded man
feel as if ne wanted Is use some very plain
Saxon in speaking OF the com placent hus-
band. That's one type of man hate.
THE MAN OF LEPRoUs HEART.
There is another type here in New York
| He is well-dressed, well-educated, moves in
a good set. Ten to one, he is married. He
| meets your daughter, or mine, who is young
and sentimental, who believes in goodness,
and is sympathetic. He shows her little
! courtesies that please her, and to which you
can make no objection. He drops into
afternoon teas, and brings her tiny bunch
| OF violets or "A little sack of sweets; he sits
and talks to her about now unhappy he Is.
| about how unSYmpathetc his wife
is, about tho beauty of love where
two souls are free, and the delights of
a life where conventionalities are
not observed. He quotes all the passion
ate poetry possible and he looks as il his
salvation depended upon that young. inno-
cent girl. Now, if you are wise woman,
you understand this man, and never let
him talk to your daughter. II you are a
foolish one, and he happens to be man Of
good position, you feel tlattered by it, and
there is nobody to help that girl. She may
come out of it what the world calls
Straight" but she is never exactly the
J same i'll mind or heart that she was before
she met this masculine edition of leprosy,
who inoculated her with his own vicious
views. That's another type of man that's
| prevalent.
MEN WHO RETAIL SCANDAL.
Then there is another. People talk about
| him as being 80 gossipy and cheJty, and al
ways knowing the latest news, which means
that he has discovered the latest dirty scan
dial, and for some mean purpose Of his own
wishes TO promulgate it. He tells it by
shrugs, by innuendoes and by smiles; he
raises his hands in depreciation, but be tells
the story just the same, and he spreads it
go well that women are made unhappy,
that men do not know what to do to protect
them, and that households are thrown into
CONSERVATION, and all through the low
taste Of one man. Sometimes, and
| / regret very much TO say it, he
manages to get his scandal put into a news
paper and rhen-well. what can woman
do? If she stands before the public and
has husband, brother or father to back her.
she may sue this man for libel, but II she
is simply an ordinary woman and certainly
they are the happiest. she can do nothing
but endure in silence. One woman not
long ago had the courage to take a case
into court, and congratulated her on win
ning her suit. That woman was pretty
Geraldine Ulmar-as dainty a bit of fem
innity as ever existed. When she was
singing the critics had a right to say any
thing they felt like about her voice and
her acting, but when she got married they
had no business TO touch on her married life.
She is and always has been marvelously
| happy in Is, and that any one should have
been mean enough TO have started such O
story as that she was Wretched is a some
thing her friends cannot understand and