The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-01
The
4 Plea for
Education in
Courtesy.

You never know how agreeable you
can be until ToG 5fy, and I wish TO
conclude this subject Of agreeability by
advancing this strong argument that
1T IS your duty and your business to
try. Ny position not only now Is. but
always has been and always shall be.
thdt charm is a mere matter Of good
manner that good manner is an art,
and that this art i'm common with all
others. is 10 be- acquired by simple force
of dtiigeut study.
During the years of medieval dafk-
ness ln Europe nobody was JO blame
for downright illiteracv ha"suse books
were few and schools We're far between.
but iu this day and generation We
rightly feel only sovereign contempt
for the men who cannot read or the
women who cannot write IT they
come 20 as, deplOrlUg heir lack of in
formation, wa disgustedIy advise them
70 go 20 school, or, II they are too big
for school We suggest that they puy
good books, fun of learned lore. and
educate themselves We no longer live
I'm century where knowledge Is con
sidered a strange and mysterious pow
er, proceeding partly from the evil one
himself. and we are fast getting to
view the acquisition of social charm
In quite the same light.
A Common Sense View.
Just make up yoE mind that your
manners are bad. indeed very bad. just
come 10 "a realizing sense that YOU
dOH'l seem 80 attract ANA hold people
as YOU should. arrive fairly and square
ly at the point where You can see, with
quite painful distiucuess, that for
want of charm you are falling TO make
the successful career YOU planned out
for yourself. and then sit right down
and take "a common sense view of the
situation Waste mo- time losing your
confidence 0T courage, but look the sit
uati0n directly i'm the eye and say 81
viii study this ART of agreeability just
as I would study electricity. or q Ian
Euage, or dress makIIE-
"H can't get ou any longer without it,
and I find that there are first and fore
most excellent text books upon the
subject 10 be studied. the rules and i'm
formation i'm which viii be 10 me of IN
tetima bile value
l{aviug got this far along the right
atHi royal road 10 the attainment az
scur desire. don't be either ashamed or
iaid To go straight out and purchase
l4tc excellent volume ON correct SOCIAL
You can uo more succeed with
ua ID than you can learn to discourse
e-eet music without notes, or prepare
delectabIe dishes without the assistance
of an authorized volume of approved
Recipes
Select carefully compiled and perfect
ly up-to-date works OLA the best ana
most modern etiquette by we'll known
authors. and do not be IN the least de-
TERED from your study of rules because
you may be passing aver first youth OF
because YOU do NOT live i'm fashion
able community where there appear 10
be large opportunities for pracuclng
what You learn
There is literally no time OF life when
IL is too late 90 study and adopt the
principles Of exquisite pOuteuesS.
ann proud GO count iu my list of friends
a. man who made his money iu Colo
RADIO gold. and a large part of that gold
le dug and blasted from the rock with
his own big strong hands. AT 45 he
had a fortune, and he gave up the
mines. came east, bought "a house m
New York and began to mt himself rOI
the enjoyment of q social life.
"I earned my money by some hard
Iicks." he bTayely said, land now / am
going to- earn my social position 10y
some more hard licks.'
He was as good as his word. The
hard ticks he put in while earning and
winning the society Of cultured men
and women were devoted 10 the study
OF etiquette and "a gradual application
OF aI its best rules. Today he sits al
the head of his OWU table Whereat he
euteTtaius the best i'm the land. and his
kindly. graceful, genial and correct
manners are as great credit to has
pluck and sound common sense as are
his millions