Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-04-27
HE WANTED TO BE POLITE
But After a Days Devotion to tn,
Experiment the Man Gave
Up in Despair.

The man who wanted to be polite
arose in the morning and looked al
himself in the glass. says Puck.
The lines of my face are becoming
hard, he observed, and all on &C.
count of the influences of our modern
civilization. Henceforth | shall bt
KIND and obliging to every one
So saying, he went forth into tn,
light of the modern world.
He stepped into car.
Il beg your pardon" he said to s
Durly individual whom he brushed
against. The burly individual looked
at him cynically.
He was about to take the only va
cant seat, when the car stopped and E
young woman got on.
Madam, have this seat" he re-
marked, lifting his hat.
Inc young woman took the sea
without word, while several of the
passengers, who had been absorbed
IN tnelr papers, glanced up to see wha;
the unusual excitement was about.
when the man who wanted to be
polite saw that the car was approach
Ing the street corner. he said to the
conductor: Il beg your pardon, bu
may | ask you to stop the car at the
next street,"
The conductor controlled himsel,
enough to be true to his calling anc
made no reply. The man waited pa.
'Iently while the car went three
SQUARES further on, and then ht
walked back.
On his way to his office the man saw
a woman, with two children and three
heavy bundles, trying to make her way
along.
won't you permit me to assist
you?" he said, putting his hand on ore
OF the bundles
Inc woman looked at him once anc
replied: I'll calf the police"
Inc man passed on hurriedly. Ar.
irving It his Office he was met by
friend who had just got back from
Europe, and came to tell him about II
Inc friend sat and talked about his
european experience, led on and en-,
couraged by the manner of the man
who wanted to be polite.
AT the end of two hours he said: 90
hope | haven't interrupted YOU.
Know you are busy man"
And the man said: Not at ALL M,
business is of no Importance. con-.
pared with your trip" which made il
imperative for his friend TO stay fo,
one hour more.
When the man finally got out to his
luncheon, after he had patiently wait
ed, and succeeded at last in obtaining
a seat, he looked around him and dis.
covered that another man was waitine
also SO he hurried up to give the
other man a chance, eating his
luncheon III four minutes. where be.
lore 1t had always taken five. Wher
ne got through, and the other man hao
GRABBED his seat, that individual ob.
served: We'll. you are dead SLOW"
On MS arrival home, the man who
wanted to be polite, recalling the faci
that he had never treated his servants
IN strictly cavalier manner, went o,ll
III the kitchen and said: Bridget. to-
morrow morning l viii bring I'D you1
coal for you myself And Bridget i
anything troubles you. come to me ana
III make it right
Whereupon Bridget went upstair:
and in a brief interview with her mis-.
tress. signified that she would throw
up her job if 'the man interfered."
Ihat night. when the man who
wanted to be polite went to bed. he
looked in the glass and said. "O,c
chap it doesn't pay! Henceforth j
am just as impolite as all the rest o.
them. l can't afford not to be-"