Show AMERICAN MANNERS OF TODAY prevailing bearing in thorough thoroughfare fares and street cars indicates indicate that courtesy Is on the decline As for manners we are kindhearted as a people and civil when appealed to but no one would suspect it it if our bearing in thoroughfares and street cars be 1 a criterion the spirit ot of the age Is first corne come first served to bo be waived only in favor of the crippled and the positively infirm courtesy in the old fashioned sense the deference of tho the young for the seniors of the stronger tor for the weaker sex of the vigorous tor for the arall frai frailix lIt if not extinct Is so sporadic as to be noticeable when manifested robert grant writes in the yale tale review the young men who push their way forward in public conveyances vey ances retain without compunction the seats for which they have aled alere He reAgain again we have the philosophy of the tired briness bu Iness man 1 I got there first we are ai all equals in the united states and I 1 want to read my newspaper the apotheosis of naturalness and in n self defense naf we nil H more or r less subscribe tolt toft put but fter all it Is natural ur al for pig to struggle for places at a trough well may we ask ourselves if it Is impossible to safeguard independence pen dence dende initiative and equality except at the cost of all the tha social graces that prevailed when society was more i artificial |