The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10
pleasing attention to her ladyship il
you hire small balloon for the occa-
sion and take 1t along with you.

pleasing attention to her 1adyship il
you hire small balloon for the occa-
sion and take 1t along with you.
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ORD CHESTERFIELD'S son was
in receipt Of another letter which
l think might wisely have been
incorporated in the published volume.
because of undoubted sound common
sense and for the reason as well that
very few of the books Of etiuaette~of
the present day cover the question to
which it refers with any degree OF
adequacy. My copy of this letter reads
as follows:
London, Sept. IA, 1861.
My Dear Son: l am very glad to hear
that your position as an authority in
manners has become such that people
: come to you for advice. 1t is a proud
moment for me when [ learn that my
son IS recognized by those by whom
ne IS surrounded as an authority on
the elegancieS Of life, and I have or
dered my treasurer to send you an ex-
ira ten pounds with your next months
allowance as a token Of my apprecia-
etiquette.
You are perfectly right in telling
your landlord that 1t is bad form to ask
Tor MS rent twice in the same day, but
way 70 prevent such a request most
eHectlVely is to pay him the first time
ne asks. AS to your telling the dean
or your college that no gentleman eats
peas with spoon, that, while in the
main the rule, is subject to some modI-
HcauOnS. For instance, If the gentle.
man had to choose between the SPOON
and his fingers. he will invariably
choose the spoon, but even then the
G %
precious truth. my son, no gentleman
Will eat peas with anything but his
mouth
Now, as to your tailOr's case. l know
OF no settled rules anywhere dealing
with the question of how a tailor
should treat his mOther-in-Iaw in case
she became impossible. 1t is a great
subject however and most attractive.
as II seems to me, to mind that likes
to speculate on the nature of mammals.
My own impression is that if a tailor'g
mother-ln-law We're to assault him, as
TINS lady seems to have done, with q
natiron, he, being only a tailor. and
therefore not necessarily a gentleman.
would be justified in knocking her out
With the poker. Or he might whack
her over the head with his goose with
out losing caste among his fellows.
Were 1t your mother -in-I law, or mine.
the case would be essentially different
do all sorts Of things that men in our
station could not do.
recall the case of a blacksmith who
pushed his mother in-law off London
bridge and was acquitted of murder by
a jury OF his peers on the ground that
he performed a Christian act in return
ing cold water for hot, but you and 7
could not do such a thing as that, for
the reason that it is the height Of rude
ness Tor gentleman to push a lady
under any circumstances So, were
the case yours or mine, l should say
offer the lady no rudeness of any sort
whatsoever. only If you can get her
to go to sleep in a sequestered room.
and have the opportunity to lock her
IN after having turned on the gas that
would prove quite as effective meth
cd of getting rid Of her as I know Of
On the whole, I would not NEEDLE
with your tailor's case if | were Won.
If he wishes to hit the lady in the eye
with sandbag, let him do it, It's no
affair of yours, and your true gentle
man does not interfere in the domestic
troubles OF others. Your sincere IA
ther, -ChesterfeId.
Editors Note-In going over These
hitherto unpublished letters of Lord.
Chesterfield have discovered a SEEM,
ing anachronism in his lordship's ref
gas. This seemed to me to cast much
doubt upon the genuineness OF the epfs-
tie, but upon referring the matter to
Father Time, he assured me that I
need have no fears on that score.
shakespeare" said he, introduced
references to Alexander, Cato and Ga
len to his tragedy Of "Corlolanus. al
though these persons did not live until
long after the time of Coriolanus
Moreover" he added, you frequently
find in Punch and other comic papers
the jokes Of other ages. If Punch. can.
use third century joke in the TWEEN
tteth century, don't see why Chester
field can't use nineteenth century gas
in the eighteenth"
have personally accepted the ex--
PLANTATION, and trust Father Times
readers will do the same.-The Editor.