Middletown transcript., 1895-11-02

rises and gives his seat to a woman
He does it because she is q woman
"He abates somewhat from his right. >
In nineteen cases out of twenty sh'
takes it without word or sign, dt
not say Of thanks, but Of recognition
If dog left the seat she would proba'
bly, say more.
This comes, / think, though I an
not sure, from bad training, not from
no training. For, naturally, a person
wholly unframed would recognize the
courtesy of man. But l think that
in the poorer boarding schools oi
America girls are taught definitely
that they must not recognize even the
presence of man unless he has been
introduced to them, by letter or per-
sonally, unless, indeed, he be othei
side of the counter, or be some one
from whom service may be demanded,
as from doctor, conductor, or a
sexton. In other cases, the girl is
taught that it is immodest to rec ,g-
nize the existence of a man,
Last Sunday I went to church-to
the church nearest to my house. 1t is
not that in which preach. We were
not many, for it was summer-perhaps
hundred As let, left q little little late t, six
women who had come out before me
were waiting on the sidewalk. They
all looked at me-n0t to say stirred at
meas passed as was their right. On
my part, had never been presented to
one of them. Sill, ae htd bsen sing
ing the same hymns. and praying to
the same God; We had been in one
house of worship; and, probably from
some Inherited instinct, IS my ances-
tors in the Crnsades would have done,
| t'uclied my hat as | passed them.
But net ollie Of the six moved an eye
lid 10 show that she saw me-that
there MAS man passing her who had
thus presumed on Common descent
from Eve. Had they heen wax women
or had | bt Ell IA caterpillar, they could
not have appeared more unconscious.
This and the omission in the Car come,
think, frJm the boarding school rule,
which is wrong that a woman must
not seem to know that there are men
in the world, who have not been pre-
sented to her.
The lack of manners is increasing in
America. And how shall the children
now wholly ignorant, be taught?
The stereotype answer is t, relegate
such questions to the public schools.
"Order it into the schools, as you do
temperance aud cooking and the driv-
ing of nails" am doubtful about
this. Good manners are not matters
of intellect, or of physical training.
They are matters of the heart rather
than of the head.
should, rather, then appeal to tie
directors of Sunday schools. Good
manners belong to the codes of virtues.
They are not accomplishments, they are
duties. He commits high treason
against virtue who makes it disagreea-
BILE. see with great pleasure that
the Salvation Army understands this.
In their capital book of instructions,
prepared for their recruits, there are
very good suggestions as 10 good man.
ners. And when you meet those re-
cruits, you are sure you meet gentle
men and ladies.
Yet there are streets within half
mile of where writ which I cannot
pass through without being sure of in
suit from the hulking boys who hang
about on the sidewalk. All of these
boys go to the public schools. The
truant officer would have them if they
failed. Ninety-fve in a hundred 60
t, Sunday schools. Could a portion
of time there be better occupied than
in asking them why they revile
strangers or throw stones at themp
Might they not at least be made to see
that such conduct infiicts stain on
the form of religion in which they are
educatedg
Thousands of public school teachers
will read these words, and thousands
of them will say they are ill-natured.
May ask one or two of them to ask
their scholars whether it is thought
mean-spirited to say, 81 thank you."
1t would good thing, in some vacant
space of ten minutes. If the older boys
and girls could be made to say what
they think of the decline of manners,
But far better than such an appeal
as this, would be talks in the intimacy
and tenderness of Sunday school
classes. Have not hundreds of readers
"uO "ti ioOh a. blic dILlCi0 Ou SuQs
day morning, who are willing to tell
their pupils in the Sunday school what
are some of the questions involved in
it, and who are willing to guide them
to right conclusions as they consider
those qnestions9-S Sunday Advertiser.
A
insanity Among Women.
The large increase In mental trouble among
women Is directly traceabls to diseased
state Of their peculiar and delicate organism:
Much Of thisis brought aboutlby carelessness;
late hours, thin shoes, tight corsets, over
work, anxiety and sometimes by excess.
When her delicate mechanism is disabled or
deranged nothing equals DIR. Pierce's Fovorite
Prescription In restoring 1t to order
Left Its Trace.
Mr.. Huggins (entering parlor with
Miss Kissam on his arm)-I have just