The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-06
which is their due. Nobody dreamed

which is their due. Nobody dreamed
of calling Washington "Georgy." Had
any impudent youngster attempted
such thing he would certainly have
got what he needed-"a good birch
ing" His own mother called him
George" his own wife MIR. Wash
ington,' his most Intimate friends
General" and Your Excellency,
served for all outsiders; Master for
his servants. Pistols and coffee" were
terrible of course, but they certainly
promoted good manners. There was
somebody TO be held TO account for
imper,inences. insults. SANDERS; II
was not a rag-time civilization at all.
The prisons, jails and Adullamites of
Europe had not poured paupers, and
failures and anarchists and .polygiot
tongues. manners and ideas upon our
land. The civilization OF England was
In force And IL was not restless,
fitful, vulgar, foreign, undigested. en-.
detrimental civilization either. but tho
fruit of a thousand years experience.
wars, legislation. 1t made our laws.
established our religion, dictated our
morals and manners, and established
our ideals Of government for all time.
Wisdom calmness, deccncy, righteous
ness, may not always be a la mode,
but they are the mode of the stuff
that wea.s: that are independent of
fashion; they are eternal. What In
ccntiye to be good and do right (and
never consider that ANYTHING can be
weighed in the balance against the
welfare of the country a pubic man
can have nowadays. other than that
his own personal honor and conscience
can afford, il would he hard to see.
Then in rho horns .hn ~
authority is just. as valuable, just az
much needed, and certainly entirely
too much disreSarded. Respects for
old people ono can't invariably find
much less reverence and affections. or
binary courtesy, much less, especial at
tention, kindness. Differences, our
Treatment of the aged is becoming
| barbarous; we do not rise up bcfprs
| them, and give them the hest seat, and
show that We both honor and low,
| thcnl--affer all arm. shield, bless, pro.
I tect their age, as they did our infancy
I We adore and spoil our women, as q
I nation; we adore and spoil our chill
! drer. But our old people are q one
i lorn, neglected, detected Ignored set
! too used to imprdent youngsters, in
different children and sharp servants
MT home. and n perfect suggestion Of
being generally superfluous. imhecile
land unwelcome abroad 10 do more
than bow their heads on their breasts
and wait for death. tetc-a-teto for the
niost,part With the great peIfyere.. In
some homes they are loved and cher
ished IN good Christian fashion. but III
this bright, energetic, restless. pulsps,
pushing lifesof our day they have little
place, and less affection. Day after
dayBtheS sit around the chimney cor.
ners with yerS very little to either
Interest or occupy thenE night after
Night thcN aioin empty rooms; che
family either "bpaS' Or all out, peo-
5plc forget that Il they 1.-Two long
enoughsafor each in turn similar
kind cheerful, delightful old age Is
lin course of preparation, not only
without cnnlpanionship hut devoid ot
even the careless care that gets 3
GLASS al water, or posts a letter for
the rheumatic crippled, sad old grand
father or grandmother, uncle, aunt
sometimes even father and mother
whose, comfort depends upon tho ten,
der n,ercies Of the" shall say,