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Show Howard's Complaint, That veteran newspaper man, Joseph nowird. Is In a bad way, llo iours ont his sorrows In the New York I'ress. It is the manners of his fillow countrymen Unit hivo made llfo a harden to him, luirtlculiirly their manners at table. Not to exploration ho dcclirc-i tint tho bowl of toolli IcU which appears on every American table Is onr national illrgrsce. I'eoplo ought to cleanse their teeth, )cs, sas Joaeh, bit ho objects strenuously to their doing It In public, because It Is not an Inviting eelilbltlon. "Can you I in Mlno anything more ills-gnttlng ills-gnttlng than man or woman taklnj a spongo hath In the dining room, or brushing his teeth In the dining room, or cleaning his nails In tho dining room!" He w-ints to know, therefore, why those who would bo horrified at actions of this sort In the dining room with tho utmost coolness daily jlilr their teeth lu public. Howard has eaten at restaurants till llfo Is no longer worth living, lie has dined dilly and snppcd nightly In the ml 1st of "vulgnrttns who tall, with tbrlr inontlis foil of food: who rain the knife of convenience down the month of appetite'i who literally take inonthfuli; who swill their driuk and gorgo their foal." He bos fed In tho midst of such llcnda till they have become n nightmare to him, grinning ont at blin In the darkness, dark-ness, "Wealth and manners don't accm lo go together," nnotlia. No, they don't, for . fact We need a school of manners, man-ners, that's what no need, an) s he further. fur-ther. Start It yoarself, Joseph. We tender onr best wishos for Its success. |
