Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-06
THE MAKESHIFT OF 4 MAN
Remarks About One Who Keeps Man
ners for His Own Set.

How easy it is to mistake a male
creature for gentleman!
Some singular things happening I'M
der my notice provoke that observation
Not singular, alackl by reason Of Their
uncommcnness-the seem TO happen
right along-but singular because thel Q
| seems no good reason for their occur
renee, nor, indeed, any reason at all
save one that l am reluctant to admit
But to the things. Ii happened that 2
man stepped into an elevator filed
with women. They were all plain wo-
men. of neither uncommon beauty nor
! elegance. After a hasty survey. he re-
placed his cigar in his mouth and kept
his hat or. Just before the lift start
Cd a beautiful woman, very fashion,
ably dressed. entered. At once this
poor makeshift OF a gentleman. with Il
quicl, admiring glance. removed his
| cigar and took off his hat. Not d wo-
man in the car but scorned this poor
sham courtesy. and doubtless she to
whom it was offered spurned the trib-
ute paid her clothes and denied to her
wonlanhcod.
1t happened, also, that a man met 4
woman acquaintance in public. She
WAS rot his equal financially, but in
every other respect she assuredly vas.
| He bowed md lifted his hat perhaps al
| inch. In the next instant he lifted it
far from his head and made profound
! courtesy, as a woman of his wealth
went by. Il can never recognize that
| man again said the first woman later.
And she was right.
And it happered-and the telling is
as painful as the reading can possibly
be-that all men sat still when two
plain. middle-aged women entered
a car and remained standing, but that
when there came d gloriously beautiful
girl in a velvet gown, with violets nest
ling in her furs. one man arose with
| cheerful alacrity and others We're evil
| IDENTIFY ready to follow, had youth and
beauty required more than one seat.
Thus, in a thousand ways. do men be-
tray their secret selves, The man who
will hold door wide and bow low for
one woman to pass. and permit it to
bang in the face of another. reveals
! the Wretched shadows of his own char
acter Chivalry is unknown to him. His
own set may be deluded into the belief
! that he is gentleman. but those Tor
whom he does not keep his manners,
understand that the instincts OF a gen
| tleman were left out OF his makeup.
The true woman would scorn his hol-
low homage.
He would do well to Learn department
from Joseph PAIGE, of Bread street hill.
who was the finest gentleman of his
| time" because he had not one sys-
TEN of attention to females in the
drawing room and another in the shop
or ut the stall. - Il have seen him,
saws Charles Lamb. standing bare
headed-s1nile if you please-to Z
noor servant girl while she has been in
oufring of him the way to some street.
He reverenced and upheld III
every form in which it came before
him. wcmanhood. I have seen him
nav. smile not-tenderly escorting a
m3rket woman. whom he had encoun-
| tered in a shower. exalting his umbrel-
n over her poor basket of fruit, that
if might receive no damage. with as
ruch carcfulncss as if she had been
countess.
oh. Joseph PAIGE of Bread street
hill, Lives there your like in the world
today?
I I'm thinking if We should chance
rnnr YOU in these times. we would pass
nv with a shake of oar heads. a smile
of pfty and a knowing look. But there
would not fail some of us-and not al
market women-to thank the Lord fol
\ true gentleman.-Philadel Bulle-
! tin