Show AMERICAN MANNERS OF TODAY 12 prevailing bearing in thoroughfare thoroughfares and street cars indicates that courtesy Is on the decline i 41 14 As tor for manners we are kindhearted as a people and civil when appealed to but no one would suspect it if our bearing la in thoroughfares and street cars ba be a criterion the spirit of the age Is 13 first come first served to be waived only in favor of the crippled and the positively infirm courtesy in the old fashioned sense the deference of the young for the sen seniors tors of the stronger 14 for the weaker sex of the vigorous for the frail if not extinct Is so sporadic as to be noticeable when manifested robert grant writes in the tale yale review the young men who push their way forward in public conveyances vey ances retain without compunction the seata seats for which they have struggled nere here again we have the philosophy of the tired business man 17 1 I got there first we are all equals in the united states and I 1 want to read my newspaper the apotheosis of naturalness and la in self defense we all more or lesa less subscribe to it but after all li it Is natural for pigs to struggle for places at a trough well may way we ask ourselves V if it Is impossible to safeguard independence pen dence initiative and capt at the cost of all the social gr bricea ices that prevailed when society was more artificial |