| Show RUDENESS ROWING the fact admitted in england it not lu country is a growing conviction in england that rudeness is a distinctive characteristic of what are known as well bred crowds the london world points out that the scenes in the ante rooms at the queens reception would disgrace a mass meeting of bricklayers and calls attention to the fact that at the opera and concerts the audience is always disturbed by well dressed and inconsiderate people in the boxes that we do not improve in manners as we advance in civilization appears to be the conclusion of the writer and he thinks that the addition of a certain license to the women has done much to drive out politeness and chivalry woman no longer brings with her in to public places a silent demand for courtesy she repudiates it sa a concession to weakness this view will hardly be accepted in toto by americans who have been guests of the ladies and gentlemen of england says the new york times it is doubtful if hospitality and old fashioned courtesy are anywhere in the world so rigidly adhered to as in an english home unless it be among the old families of virginia but the uneducated britons of the london streets among the lancashire workers and the great mass of alff graffian england there is a dull brutality eliat would put jesse james of america to cliame |
