Evening star., 1909-03-14

now the handshake is alone held to be sufficient
There exists another relic of ancient ceremonial in
England in that in Yorkshire it is customary for a
man of the people to run race before wedding.
This is etiquette Yorkshire girls must have pur-
posely kept up to show that they not easily
Among blacks again in Barotse Land no man
speaks to the King without first loudly clappng his
hands.-a noisy ceremonial that must make
monarchs life there rather burden. Men of I'M
patient minds are the first to condemn ceremonial
of all kinds.
The old Duke of Wellington expressed this forciby
when man. seeing him crossing the street in front
of Apsey House, conveyed him to the pavement.
and, thinking the convoy would be grateful for the
attention, perhaps may have been the case, said
to the Duke that he felt highly honored at having
had the opportunity of attending your Grace; and
his Grace turned on him and said energetcally,
Don't be such damned fool, sir!' Yet no one
would have valued the ceremonial that is the
uniform of discipline in the army. If anyone neg
ected this there would have been short shft for him
with the Duke Thus ceremonial in civil crowds
means order; in armies, discipline.
The Heading of Letter
THE heading of this letter, where call you Dear
SIR though may never have seen you, is
instance of ceremonial in address that is curious
survival In all Johnsons conversations you will
find only Sir used Dear Sir" is never used
except at the beginning and the termination of let
ter person who is (often only by courtesy sup
posed to be known to YOU. Such address may be
supposed to have been originally used by wild men
to conciate another, and to prevent a knock
down blow being dealt YOU when you began to
speak your mind any subject. person even
now when he addresses his fellows is more concilia-
tory than he is in real life 1t is his object please
aatter his audience that they will listen to
what he has say. Unless he is agreeable, they will
not be agreeable to him; that his address begins
in affectionate, if not a wheedling, expression
that attention may be arrested, the courtesy re-
turned, and Dear Sir is the tone all round. Your
friend to serve YOU or Your loving friend to
you, formerly often the ending to
epistle.
Elizabeth, Queen of England, to such noble
men whom she thought might be useful to her, Our
assured loving friend, and the signature was made
with such astonishing number of loops and twists
and hn nf
BILE to engross his or her signature in ceremOnlous
coils whether of verbiage penscroll work? No. it
true trouble is not taken to do this but not the
taken by every woman to adorn herself proof
that ceremonial will last among mankind until the
species becomes fossil like the ancient lizards and
dragons of whose ceremonial We know nothing, but
who, no doubt, had their own ideas to the proper
WaV to carry their tails their heads and an
etiquette in their of eating their friends and
relations
The etiquette of punctuality will forever with
mankind be violated by the etiquette of adornment
chiefly of the female person is she not coming
We'll, l guess not she still preening herself,
/ once heard of American cousins say of
outrageouSly unpunCtual fellow Countrywoman
Would desire to abolish such annoying customs
do they not rather give for old fashioned
compliment when the looked for vision has at last
appeared, to be worshiped and commended instead
of scolded:
Ceremony of Adornment
THE ceremony of the toilet is about the only old
= thing we have remaining and it will be ever the
Youngest well the most ancient of ceremonies
1t has this lasting advantage other ceremonies
that it is exercised for the benefit of one individual
and in order that one person may triumph.
All public functions really designed, if you go
into the philosophy of functions, that impression
may be made on the public mind and the event eel
ebrated be remembered But with woman's adorn-
ment it is for the purpose of personal a..-i-