Show ARE WE LESS POLITE american manners summed up by writer in housekeeper aro are we less polite than our neigh bors asks robert webster jones in tho be housekeeper outwardly yes it bust roust be admitted that most of MS us have been too busy settling a new cou country n try and striving for bare existence ce to put the utmost degree ot of polish of which they are capable upon our manners in england tho the tor for of the omnibus says thank you as ho he receives the fare in france tho the gond gen dainto aimo on the street corner Is tho the personification of courtesy aa as ho lie answers tho the strangers inquiries no such examples of politeness aro are furnished by public servants in this coun try in tho the native courtesy that springs s from tho the heart wo we yield to none but our manners sometimes afford room for criticism but wo we aro are learning fast and mally most ira im in the world Is putting it a little too strongly granting that wo are already first in business and statesmanship may tte e not chopo some somo day to attain equal precedence precede in courtesy and come to be known cs to tho the most polite nation lu in tho the world |