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Show An English Gentleman Shocked. The following- is clipped .from the Pall Mall Gazette: Sir: I really do not think that tho arr-nouncement arr-nouncement made by tho American "help" when she said. "A young fuller to seo ye." was so bad as that which I hoard today at a lady's flat In Ashloy place, S. W The parlor wench brought In a printed business card of a houso agent with tho remark, "A gentleman waiting to see you." Great Scott! "A gentleman!" Your faithfully, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Great Scott, Indeed! Great but mere epithets fail In such a crisis as this. The idea of a house agent being referred re-ferred to xis a gentleman! Oh, horror! Oh, mercy! Oh, gee! What sort of punishment could be severe enough for a "parlor wench" who would make such a shocking- fox pass in the presence of an English Justice of the Peace? Our British cousins boast of their democracy, democ-racy, and Justly, but It must be remembered remem-bered that there Is democracy and democracy. de-mocracy. We havo ono kind In this country'. England uses a different brand. Here Justices of the Peace are sometimes referred to as "heelers, "bums," "grafters," "cheap skates" and "chumps. Here a house agent may not only be called a gentleman, he may ac-, ac-, tually be one. Here we have no such things as, "parlor wenhnTI I must be remembered thnf crude people, that we are It ,? WL" civilization, that ffc d0n?t 4 the definition of the wor5 tVei Sf, this were not the case S e,S the English Justice of .L SMifi writes to Mr. Astor' EnclUK 3 deride a "parlour wench-' ,lpl&3 no better than to refer t - v ho as "a gentleman r-ChiiS"? Herald. '"caeo |