The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-27


 mother did believe was the cause of that dangerous fit the next day
 An interesting note on the contempo- rary way of speech is afforded by the following: ITO persons of lesser rank, one saith, You, without thou-ing any body, be it not some little child, and that thou vert much more aged, and that the custome itself amongst the meer courteous and better bred, were speak in such manner. What concern- eth familiar friends, amongst them the custome doth comport in certain places, that they CThou), one another more freely, in other places ones more re- served" Did little Francis tutoyer his readers, one might inquire, on the ground of being much more aged" than they?
 His pronouncement would be more in teresting still were it more definite, for hedging timidity characterizes our boy. Witness this amusing instance: Suck no bones, at least in such wise that one may hear it; take them not with two hands, but with one solely and properly. Gnaw them not, nor tear the flesh with thy teeth but make use of thy knife, holding them with one hand, or rather with two fingers, as nigh as thou canst. Knock no bones upon thy trencher to get out the mar row of them, but get out the marrow with knife; to speak better, it is the consel of the mo
 fit to handle bones, and much less to provided Christmas programme, mouth them.'' The "consel of the most l 11-ica, 'consel, scarcely yet within the | sphere of practical politeness.
 | Etiquette books of every age expand with dinner and become rampant over the ritual of ta table. No less Youths | Behaviour" which in it's sketch of com pany manners as they should be gives US, by implication, rather a painful in sight into company manners as they were. The dining Englishman of the period was extremely prone apparently to eat as Dr. Johnson ate-strenuously l hotly, with avidity. This ''becometh not and must gently be reformed. One ought sometimes to look off the meat, yet without others" Food seems to have been served very inconveniently for dispatch" and with a paucity of plates, hence such endorsements as the following counsel provides against: | One ought not to cast under the Table | bones, parings, wine, or such like | things. notwithstanding if one be con- strained to split something which was hard to chew, or which causeth irk- someness, then may one throw it dex- terously forth upon the ground. If it be liquid thing, one may more freely spit it onthegr ound, turning oneself if it be possible somewhat aside" How did the newly manufactured English | Beauvals carpets fare on these occa- sions.
 In laying down Hawkins Youths | Behaviour" to take up Codrinston's 1 feminine supplement Qst ed. 1664 we make poor exchange, except in so for as the latter digs mine into the occu- pations and ideas "sortable" to young Fgentlewomen of the Caroline period The description given of thaeir various 1 pursuits may strike us as skethy nd slight, but we must remember that it is mere man who writes. How can a he-thing treat "True-Sttch, Queen stitch Rock-work, Frost-work and Mossework" with adequate amplitude? On the other hand, all of the passed master in Puritanism is in the follow ing To entertain young Geatlewo- men in their hours of Recreation we shall commend unto them Gods Re venge against Murther and Artemido. rus his Interpretation of Dreams Of these two works it is not difficult to guess which would be more asked for among the young maids themselves When Robert Codrington treats of 1 "Women in general he is comparative iy disappointing. Perhaps he was not a married man, or, if married too dis erect to draw upon his private expert ences That husbands and wives were pretty much then what they are now let last Aggression illustrate. It is ta- ken from the recently edited letters of Endymion Porter, who. on some "emer- gent" occasion, writes to his wife as follows:
 T will endeavor to let you see that l esteem you above all earthly things but still I shall wish that you would know I must govern you and not you me"
 dignified and becoming assertion as every husband will agree. Then g week passes, and once more Mrs. Por. ter's lord and master takes up his pen:
 My dear Olive: I received the an. swer of my letter and perceive by il that l must put off my hat first. Youl will be done, sweetheart for otherwise we shall have but little quiet"
 As it was in the beginning!-Long. ,nap'e Mapazina