The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-03

| Courtiiuess or Speech and Manner
Superior Specifically to the Present
Dsy-But it 10 surmised That Now,
Though the Veneering Takes Not So
High . Polish. Still There 10 More Good
Timber Underneath.
| Said Mercution, Il am the very pink
OF courtesy" The ancient adage has II
| that self-praise is no recommended ton
| but accepting Mercutio at his own vslua-
| tion-what man could wish for more?-
we arrive. says the London Standard,
after brief consideration at the conciu-
sion that there is something after all in
the idea that ''autres temps autress
moers." TIE times change, and the mod
EN- Sir Walter Raleigh no longer throws
his inverness upon the slippery wood
pavement for the queen to step upon,
and Why not? Simply because her ma
Jessy no longer perambulates the Capt.
tai as good Queen Bess cid in days gone
py. Were the opportunity given, We feel
sure that carpet of overcoats would be
laid at her feet sufficient for rer Ma
Jesty TO walk dry Enod 10 Buckingham
Palace to St. Pauls-yeai and back
again via the Borough Road The times
change, and the eXigencies OF nineteen
tn-century warfare are such that the
range OF modern ornaments precludes
the interchange OF courtesies many a
decade ago, when the French and En-
gIish officers, with After you" their re-
n0tv
only waiting for the word to fire from
their officers. which the latter were so
leath to give. Today. with the aid OF
held-glasses, bows might be interchang-
ed, but compliments and courteous
words are quite out OF the question un-
less a mutual code OF signals was ar
ranged. The famous varnish recipe
which has made the name of Stradiyar-
tus illustrious in the history of violins
and which gave his instruments their
glorious tone, Is lost-lost, too, is the
veneer that gave to the eignteenth-cen-
fury beaux their delightfully."- polished
manners that approa ched extravaEance
perihously near; still violins of exoui-
site tone are built today, although the
varnish recipe OF Stradivarius is still
wanting, and courtesy is. none the less
rampant, although it Is more to the
point and legs decorated than 1t was a
century ago.
A few months back when our Minis
ter OF Agriculture was removed TO mis-
home with an injured limb, ten guests
OF the house at which he had been stay
ing telegraphed their confidence, and
made inquiries concerning his health;
The ordinary sufferer perhaps would
have considered single reply; would
have met the case, as the inquirers were
all under one roof, but not so Mr. Chap |
I'm, hence the ten individual kilograms |
of acknowledgement that were delivered |
at the Chatsworth in reply. Here we |
nave, at the end of the nineteenth CEN
fury, an example OF courtesy that may |
rank with any of the historical instances
we quote below. Where the Prince OF |
Courtesy lay" wrote a fellow-country-
man of Mr.. Chaplin's in one OF the |
poems that added to the lustre OF the |
name of Tennyson - surely the late
Poet Laureate had Mr.. Chaplin in mind.
No more effective background for the
exhibition OF true courtesy that the bat
tlefield can be imagined. On the one side
We have all the horrors of warfare,
while in the foreground all that is best
in refined human nature.
One example We have already quoted:
another has been handed down among
legendary lore from the time OF Lion
Hearted Richard. When Occur de Lion
and his Crusaders defeated the Sara
,ens, the Sultan became sufficiently cur
Gus about him to ask who IL was who
made such an example OF his troops
some well informed individual replied
hat 1t was only King Richard and his
men, who were all on foot. Said the de-
Gated Monarch, God forbid that such
noble fellow as King Richard should
march on foot" and promptly ordered
| splendid garb to be sent to his enemy's
amp with suitable message. Such was
he courtesy which one monarch showed
o another in the brave days of odd, al
housh they were in every sense at dag
,ers drawn. There is, fortunately, a Sc
Iuel to this story Of Ricnard-the En-
,llshman did no. receive the gift in the
pirit he was intended to do; in very
Doth he thought the matter was some
WAT fishy, and in place OF trying the
teed's PAGES himself ne mounted his
aithtul squire thereon. and the steed !
rowing a fiery but tanned beast. and |
ne squire being unable TO hold him in.
he faithful one was borne on the wings
: the wind to the unspeakable one
avilion. On discovering he was no: TO
ntertain Richard or be entertained by
i'm, the annoyance OF the Sultan T3s
aid to be terrible.
A somewhat similar interchange Of IN
irrational courtesies was mentioned by
aptain Coigne in his memoirs when the
uiposts OF the French and Austrian
rmieS exchanged commodities such as
1oacco and bread; finally a day arrived :
men, IN place of giving them bread for
ooacco as arranged. tae soldiers II the
.mperor found themselves prisoners Of
ne republic. Coignet, woo was on the
ght side as far as prison ras concern
i. speaks about it as being a very sta
,sic stroke-soure people might de-
2rioe It as The height .: meanness
here's something in the choic. o, cpl
lets after all. Bat workmanship may
2 hidden by several coats % ya-nisl,
u the work will be none the less bad
Though in the eighteenth century one
3nnot find faul; with he veneer, II Is
0vious from this aneciote that tae
'dndation upon which TIE erection %
,urtesy was built was not in all cases a
cry secure 4 fash.onabls young man
ice had the impertinence = point on. :
General Sir William Joansoa. who
"a some good work out IN Amer ]
. in lis. that It vas NJ: at all the
ling 10 return the salute ot negro az c
lie latter hal just done ouoth SIR VII
m. wbose,cou-tesv Was a5ovs an -o.- 7