Show manners makela ladles ladies the ladies of this ahia city are ara rapidly learning to keep to the right on muddy u day crossings croaa ings and they ara are also ad adopting other simple courtesies wh which ch are putting patting them to the front as the handsomest and best of the a sisterhood in america but occasionally a ily no an obstinate strong minded contrary specimen la is encountered who will willo persist P erdist in ambling to ahe th left or r c doing 09 some other equally 10 in OR an and unnecessary act A gentleman who has traveled aten exten belvely in remarked to a news r reporter aport e r while discussing some eoma of t thu he characteristics of the gentler sex that the men of america are largely largel to blame for the disposition of some of the Is fair ir creatures to taka this sat render lender of everything as a matter of course coarse for they have so BO long treated them with such gallantry that many have been educated into regarding as a right what is ia simply a courtesy in I 1 n paris pans or viem a for instance it if a streetcar be crowded with males and alady n lady should enter not one knoof of them would well venture to offer a seat and the lady herself would not expect it the woman there have never been taught that they bad any more rights righta than a man all and d for that reason creaso it if an amer ican should a extend a courtesy he is accustomed to at home he be wonia be stared at as aa an aa anak and even the lady herself would bo be tempted to re gard it as aa impertinent and then he said saia that the ungallant nes to the ladies to be met with on the continent ell t vere sufficient erit to keep an americans blood boiling and he never wanted won ted to see similar rudeness extend to this country although the ladies a invited it by the matter of fact way in which tb they y PrimP preempted ted everything in the line of 0 dation to which their fancy ancy inclined it was florence many atcho who once wrote that americans americana excelled excell adall sd all it nations in attentions to their women woman but th thuc the american ladies were the mos most unmannerly but she awarded dabi the palm of to the men of hor her own nationality which is ia english in now new york and even in cultivated Bo boston bostell stoll a ment of ladies in public conveyances is beginning to make itself felt and in tho the former city the sun sneeringly speaks of 0 ari incident on si a ca car r where a botic gentlemen surrendered his seat cs as a lost art the average ev raae american however va whether he the rich or lowly is proud of a chance to be tender and chivalric to a lady and he is ia amply COM compensate pan sated il it his bis courtesy be roe lecog 9 nihed as a courtesy and not nob acceptor accept accepted od as a right it seems like a little thing to keep to the right on a muddy er crossing but there are many ladies walking abreast who never stop atop to consider the limited passage and coolly op ap ato it is RB they would a seat in it a car there are ara men too who do this thing but eta as a general thing they do it at the risk of being pushed to one side aide for they know that whilo while the average man will take a good deal off a woman ha h a will stand no foolishness from ono one of his own sex and will elbow lim into the mud without the slightest compunction of conscience it if he ha neglect to obey the common law of kee keeping p ing to the right news K UI |