Show 7 0 su T OF R EN V I 1 D by ml W MELISSA PREFERS A SINGLE CODE OF MANNERS mrs mra ids maternal maiden aunt janes glowed with admiration and a taint faint color appeared on an hor her cheeks che elca ms his manners are simply exquisite qui site melissa Mell she exclaimed 1 I dont think I 1 over ever saw such buch perfect politeness combined with such euch absolute ease I 1 d do 0 hope that he will como again its the one best beat bet that he will dearle dearie said mrs airs Merri merrield wid ld you may luay set your fond fluttering heart at rest he will come again and yet again and then some more but I 1 have a premonition that he will ultimately discontinue his visits and we will have to pick up our handkerchiefs ourselves and open our own doors with our own weak incompetent feminine hands 1 I must say that I 1 like a man to be well mannered remarked aunt jane rubbing her nose resentfully 1 I am aware that there Is a modern tendency to sneer at the good breeding that in my younger days was deemed essential and the manifestation of which in a refinement of be behavior haylor to the opposite sex was considered the hall mark of a gentleman but I 1 am old fashioned enough to appreciate courtesy im strong tor for it too agreed mrs afro Merri merrield wid ld As mr used to say a gentleman wants to cut out the rough stuff when ichen hes around with the skirts at the same time dearle dearie I 1 am of the opinion that there is such a thing as running it into the ground I 1 always insisted on poor dear henry 01 ta I 1 i I 1 I 1 lit J EA it 7 1 l would stand bareheaded in the street with a blizzard blowing treating me with politeness I 1 never let him sit down to dinner in his bis shirt sleeves even in the privacy of home life ond and it if be wanted to use any language unfitted for ray my shell like ears he went down to the basement or some place where I 1 would woul frit nt get anything more than the low distant rumble ot of it it there was a suitcase to be carried when we were traveling he was the porter and I 1 always got the easiest chair in the room and the white meat when there was chicken tor for dinner henry was no chesterfield but I 1 certainly had him well grounded in anthe the first principles which Is about ia as much as a woman has baft a right to expect ot a husband 1 I talking about husbands 1 said bald aunt jane all men are to be considered in the light ot of husbands darling declared mrs airs Merri merrield wid ld its the only tight light that shows their imperfections you dont get them in the mellow radiance of the melting moonbeams moon beams bellave believe me nor yet in the electric splendor of the brilliant ballroom where mr scrapper Sc and I 1 first met youve got to put the subject under the xray X ray 0 gf domesticity the fierce white light that beats about the being of men when there company around then you get a line on an him pet and the next morning you go down town and buy smoked glasses you seem to be theo theorizing rising to a con eld old erable extent observed aunt jane you might cail cah it that beloved one but mr scrapper Sc reminds me a good deal of mayme Batter Satter lees flance said eald mrs afro merrield ld mayme was one of the tha girls in our office and she was a real nice girl too even it she did spelt spell it with a y and get careless ca relesa with her grammar well she had the sweetest thing in the flance fiance line that you ever saw the rest of us ua were just a sickly green he be was so perfectly lovely he was waa a clerk in a commission house but he looked like john drew in the bloom of youth and he acted with a refinement of behavior ti to the opposite sex that would simply make your hair curl it if you dropped a handkerchief hed go for it like ty cobb making a slide for third and he would stand bare headed lu in the middle middie of the street with a blizzard blowing it you felt like stopping to talk to him you put on your own wrap with percival val around it if he saw you first no maam maame mayme said that once when she met him he be threw away a ten cent cigar that he taken more than two or three puffs of and did it as aa it if been anything more than a cigarette stub just like ilka that ho he never made one apology nt at a time ile he let them go in thousand lots A thousand pah dons my dear mad madam anit I 1 you know oh ob he was waa too darling for or any use I 1 1 I suppose you are trying to bo be sarcastic but I 1 really cant see any occasion for it said aunt jane not at all said mrs airs merrield ld that was the conclusion mayine arrived at you see she squeezed into a crowded street car one evening find and found percival val there lie he had bad a seat and lie he had a newspaper that was interesting te lim him so BO much that he see eee RU uninteresting old lady who was hanging on an to a strap in front of him and just juat for a little thing thine like that mayme shook him iles hes all right mayme told me 11 1 I any holler on the way he ha tips his lid and hes got a perfectly elegant bow but when I 1 saw him taking solid comfort there with grand grandma ma pulling her poor old arms armi out dt their sockets every time the car hit a curve curva it gave me a chilly sensation about the toot tootsies I 1 may wrong him crool crook ly IY but I 1 got the strongest kind of at a hunch that it we ever went to housekeeping in a flat that have to gas range it would be up to little mayme to start tho the fire in the rooming morning while dear percival val was getting his beauty sleep of course he may have been suffering from weak back or nervous prostration or eye strain or gumpen said mayme but th them em kind of invalids always didlake did make me sore bore 11 then a man who to Is polite to a lady before marriage will bo be rude to her and inconsiderate of ker her comfort afterwards er said aunt jane Is that what I 1 am to infer Me bellosa Mell llosa 1 I exactly say that honey boney 11 replied mrs afro Merri wid but I 1 will say that if a man too excruciatingly polite before marriage his wife will be considerably less likely to feel the subsequent jolt copyright by W G chapman |