Show Evening Chit Chat IT DS D''S Ot 71 I think there therl I is as much merit In beautiful manners mannel's as in hard work work work- Emerson imerson WO 0 men who are likely to become candidates for the same political political political T TWO cal office before very long were I under tinder discussion at at our office the other day Both Hoth men are forceful original brilliant br personalities The chief difference between them Is that one beIng being beng be- be Ing ng brou brought ht up In very humble circumstancEs circumstancE's circumstances circum- circum stancEs stancE's lacks any semblance of breeding or polish while the other who is the scion of an old and distinguished fam- fam famIly family Ily ly has the bearing and breeding of a worthy descendant of or a long line of or ancestors Well yell I dont don't know a great deal Seal about either cither of them but Im I'm going to vote for or A said one man naming the son of the he humble family Why I J asked Oh Olt because this tills B n has too good manners man ners he answered Hes too polished I 1 want a real man The old old belief that a real man cant can't have manners that breeding and polish are incompatible with strengths strength Every er time I 1 meet that b belief ller I I 1 Isto sto stop top to 10 o quarrel with It I admit that thaI brooding in Rn and J- J ish are not fit substitutes for strength but I 1 firmly refuse to that they are detractors from it The strong man without education or polish Is greater than the weak man with both but the tho strong man crowned with breeding and polish Is a a. greater force than either If a bar of ot iron were to be polished would It lose strength by the process Is the steel that has been tempered and worked over and polished less strong than the crude form f rm In many cases undoubtedly a life of overmuch ease and we wealth rots lOts a k man and leaves a shell of good manners with witha a rotten center But that Is no reason Teason to hate the good manners They are the good thing left by the decay not the cause CRuse or sign of the decay de In one of If Oliver Wendell Vendell Holmes' Holmes Breakfast Table series serles is a a paragraph that goes to the heart of the matter so so- much better than my feeble pencil can that I am going to let you have it bodily I think it is unpopular in this country to talk much about gentlemen and gen gen- People are touchy about so social social social so- so cial distinctions which no doubt are arc often invidious and quite arbitrary and accidental accidental accidental acci acci- dental but which it is as Impossible to to avoid recognizing as as' as facts of natural history his his- tory tory- Society stratifies itself everywhere and the stratum which is generally recognized recognized recognized rec rec- as the uppermost would be bo apt to have the advantage In easy grace of manner and in unassuming confidence and consequently be more agreeable in inthe inthe inthe the superficial relations of ot life lite To compare compare compare com com- pare these advantages with the virtues and would be foolish Much of If the noblest work of or life Is done by III dressed awkward ungainly persons but that is no more reason for undervaluing good manners and what we call can high breeding than the fact that the best part of f the sturdy s labor of the thew world mr le hands l lIs Is done r by men with exceptional t n hands Is to be urged against the use of Brown Windsor as a a preliminary appearance In cultivated society |