Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-12-18
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The Docadence of Chivalry.

There is much comment among
 the flair sex about the deeadenee
 of chivalry among men-about the lack of that gallautry which charac-
 terized the past conduct of we'll
 bred men towards the ladies. A
 feminine writer in the Detroit Ere
 Press gives vent to this vail
 Men do not spontaneously rise
 from their seats in street cars and
 with pleasant smile offer thelr seats
 to women standing in the aisle If one does rise he seems to do it grudgingly and with look that be- lies the politeness of the offer, jerk ingly indicates the vacant seat, the while grasping viciously for hold strap. Men jostle women in the street and pass on without look or word of pardon. In stores or in public blages, scant courtesy is shown a woman. Her dress, tor instance, is trampled on, and while she may turn on the awkward lout with a sweet, forgiying smile, she is met with bold stare which seems to ask what business she has 10 be on earth.
 There can be no doubt but that this woman's complaint is we'll founded. Man is not as universally polite and gallant to the fair sex now as q few generations ago. But is the fault mans or woman s? For every effect there is a cause, and the complainant should have inquir- cd into the cause as well as point out the effect. Once woman (asing the word m a generic sense) was ex- alted in the estimation of man upon a lofty pedestal; today 1t is the few not the many that are SO exalted. Once mans object of adoration and fdolatry, the many are now the ob- iects of his dislike and disgust Once she was regarded as his supe- rior; now she is considered his equal and treated accordingly. Ths re- suit is of woman,s own making, fl not also of her own choosing. She has has stepped f~om the lofty ped esta1 where men once delighted to worship at her shrine and do her homage and reverence to become a politicians a frivolous whirligig of society, or enter into and contact with men iu the commercial world and marts of trade Everywhere nowadays men are confronted with women in the crowded street ear in a popu- lous city; iu the bicycle parade with stuffed stockings aud abbreviated the factory, shop, office or market, on the political hustings or in the pulpit-eyerywhere man isl with women. The req son so many women have cause of complaint of the lack of gaJautry among men is because there is q class of women who perslst in mak- ing themselves both offensive and The true woman-the old time woman, of whom. thank God, there are some left yet, will find no cause for complaint of politeness to ward her on the part of the gentle. men with whom she comes in contact. with the possible exception of the cities of and Detroit where all men are rutians in public, differ ing only in degree. But We opine that even in the crowded Detroit street ear that a modest woman, bearing in her beaming face the eyi- denees of that deieaex and refine ment which all men admire, would not long want for those delicate at tentions accorded refined women by gallant men,
 If there is a decadenee of ehivairY among the men, its because there is q decadeuce of deljcacv and refine ment among women. Women can not expect to make themselves mas eulinc in disposition ard habit and vet command the polite and ehival- ric attention of men. If "scant courtesy Is shown a woman, it Is usually because so many women command nothing more.
 H0BOS GALORE