The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-08-18
GOOD-NATURED NEW YORK.
me People OF That City Are a Sweet
TemDered

The People OF That City Are swee
Tempered Lot.
If we look at the worst aspects O
New York in serious spirit, it GER
tainly does not exemplify the gospel O.
kindness, as, after little, shall try
to explain. But looking at it super
fcially, or studying its population, not
In the abstract aggregate, but in the
myriad individuals one meets, up town
and down town, in aristocratic or in
extremely sordid precincts, good ma.
ture seems the mote" of the New
Yorker, provided, of course, that you
are good-natured yourself What pa.
thence he has with municipal tyrannies
and corporate inhumanities, and en-.
hvened by what a salty touch of
humor!
One would not cite an elevated rail.
road car or ferry slip, damned full of
tired and hungry New Workers.. as a
school OF courtesy. Yet think such a
throng might easily be less courteous
anywhere else, at least anywhere in
northern Europe, IL we can conceive Of
its existing there. And no woman with
pleasant words on her own lips need
shrink from asking help or guidance in
the streets of New York; USUALLY il |
will be given with good many kindly
trimmings whether it be asked from
the dude" or the hurried business
man, the lawless street boy or the
Italian sweeper, or even the tradition
ally abused car conductor. On the
whole, woman is more likely TO meet
with incivility from her own sex than
from men of any class; and II. like too
many New York women, she expects
courtesy in return for brusqueness. of
course she will be disappointed.
have a friend who was born and
who lives OH an island in n far-off
southern sea, but who has had mucb
european experience and is keen OBJ. ,
'erver He CHANGED to be in New York :
turing our last presidential election ,
ma was shown its workings through ;
many diligent hours. What impressed .
nm most was, not the way in which ,
rder was kept, but the small necessity :.
or keeping order-the extreme good q
emper OF the people. At a big club. .
ouse where the losing side had been -
Imported. the members, he said. nc :,
ne returns came In, buttoned their r.
pats like stoical Arabs and SILENTLY
lmost smilingly, stole away. And in
lie City Hall park, in front of the bio
ewspaper building where, as state
Ter state reported its vote, efflgies Of IL
70 rival candidates correspondence So
lmbed up the tall facade on tin nm, Ia
red rungs Of symbolical ladders ono an
Ight have thought, he declared that an
cry man in the enormous crowd had
TED Tor the winning climber. and FOL, ma
kindly compassion for the elimber pc
10 Jagged behind Yet we knew ana Do
could see, that pretty stronp-nav
cry passicnate-interest was felt n SUI
u particular election. go'
acts such ms these tempt us 70 fanon
at a nice place New York NAV no ~ no
In when oppression, extortiop ana tiol
pidity succeed in provoking ne 49,
ective bad temper for a lono asst.
ugh time to bring about conditions
ch Will permit individual amiabili' ine'
to display themselves unbam :,
~, nnexasperated, unabused par VIVA
II may then seem almost as nlsos ore
tempered. polite, and kindly rs did y
summer the populous fair ground, II
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