Show r valry of the F Feudal Days u pe lse Ise Modern Day Kind Real By PATRICIA LEIGH M I the th knightly system of feudal times with its usages marked the champ cham- cham practices es social moral and religious by bip jp p of women protection of the weak and arid mercy toward I. I foes foes According to Webster It is presumed to be obsolete Webster has r relegated legated it to i imes rues es from which it sprung Js that Is an Incorrect p for tor chivalry existed in all its I long jong before the feudal days But eroes ernes of our young dreams dreamt theis tho the is of old realizing the full of of unabashed courage annexed erm nn with all its meaning and proclaimed rom om the moat and tower lower their sole origination and ss 59 on of the same course they put It t t over Their I properties were perfect perfect- cing steeds the play of sunlight heir polished armor the toura- toura I the dark forest the friendless lien n the vanquished foe admon- admon II Ito to go Ills his comparatively way and an sin Bin no noVi Vi ii It is comparatively an easy j to be chivalric toward a van- van ed foe gild was right after all Fluor S o every other faker in history ft carried off the palm by sheer br brass ss Before the full l lof advertising was put into the attic terms which now clothe the therise yv rise e e. e the Oio inner meaning of publicity t to the knights of ot castle tournament feS Knights Were Bold Z re accustomed to sigh for the Old days with little thought Ju Ie under r side of ot the picture We fit the starving pitiful hut but dwell- dwell L peasantry easan Y who ho were taxed to farthing to supply said lithe with with the wherewithal wherewithal to orlon oo their deeds to buy their ning chargers and anti clothe their theirl theirE E l S in raiment We Wet Wei t i Ithe serfs who were forced to toI themselves soul and body and I souls and bodies of their wives na daughters to the whim and cai ca ca- 01 i ot of the lord of the manor their Note that I am say say- not sell for when fit is were bold they were bold gli to demand everything and nothing nothing in return R words and strains of ot the theay ay jand roundelay have drowned jobs i bs and shrieks of thoU thousands of peasantry who vent rent to upon the word vord t i me ne man the merest tr trifling fling on the i of ot Jj Titian or straw blond the the the y system I dal Is times times is gone to its grave I 4 It rest In fa peace and I late la re stated before there is a ancy t sanCY ncy among the tho more romantic i. i of my sex to deplore paRsing gassing easing of ot this spirit Let us to t to them for a minute 1 man man never gives up his hla seat to tot t in in ll a street car any more t the thc any more IciE en CI dont don't take off oft their hats with ame me courtesy aa as too toad note ito to- to ote jq 1 don dont don't t grant vives the the they Uley formerly did did did strong C ll hardly ardly know Just upon what or basic foundation they Ithe I the assumption for Tor or these re- re js Perhaps their grandmothers hem of the chivalric conduct of more Kj more remote ancestors ancestor of ot the then n ellum days ats at's all right too I intend to elUte same line to my own grand grand- iren ren ren with probably the same delot de de- lot ot verity t we are getting to modern chiv chin That That Is the point from which ended starting lei el l of Today Different 6 model differs in its form application from the 1616 The Ther cr r was composed of tinsel and was left in seclusion until the ther inducement r Inducement was offered for its g S This was done on only the 1 state occasions to the t of bands and singing and the theof ther r respect of the audience The I modem form relates not so 1 tO tto to courtesy or the outward but to the inward Tor for chivalry Itself valry has become that tr trait it of t which It most conducive to a 3 finding his own company the obtainable in his own infinite con con- that the boor discovers this ele- ele Un himself was the purest chivalry In the that prompted a local policeto police police- to Ito take a a. girl whom he he found station to his home bome one cold night lately irl was stranded without a or r money mone Tim most moat tan tangible gi hi o I possession she owned was a three old months baby boy The officer did not send her to a ahome ahome ahome home or to the police pollee station but he requisitioned a a- machine transported transports her to his own abode and left leU her her to the mercies of ot his wife She was young but far from at This is the final proof of ot chivalry No It cannot be extinct because I 1 saw a young man well known about abou town helping a blind street beggar begga on his car This sort of thing was not done Inthe in inthe inthe the good old days without days without a sufficient sufficient sum clent audience to warrant the necessary necessary sary expenditure of energy I will grant you that in many o othe of the little things of life the man of today today today to to- day is somewhat lacking tacking He doesn't take off ort his hat with the same sweeping gesture as lie le was wa formerly wont because he is usually rather busy and preoccupied with the eternal wonderment as to the derivation derivation tion of that new Easter hat which will according to custom be blooming a at athis athis his home next year He does not call nor bring flowers flower and candy because there is no incentive incentive in in- when the lady of his choice will meet him at the corner drug store and save all that difficulty And so I contend that modern chivalry chivalry chiv chiv- alry airy is a more bona fide proposition than the feudal brand It is founded upon the innate sensibilities of man and not on outward love of show |