Show DECAY OF THE CURTSEY experts deplore the rudeness of the present age there never was a time when people were more lacking in grace said a dancing master i A hostess holes nowadays he added clowd her be drawing room or ball I 1 j r roote 00 alth ib a J large arge number of 0 ables that is people with no pretense to wit what t Is vulgarly called a sty lish manner the hostess Is not to I 1 blame circumstances compel her to invite those these people but at one time I 1 a hostess paid as a much attention I 1 to her guests accomplishments in do de as to lo their character before In inciting them to her house at a private dance bow seldom one sees a girl me mak it graceful grac elul curtsey to her partner usually she ehe does no more than nod in a way that looks shockingly familiar As for the men well a quarter ot of a century ago one I 1 saw more masculine grace at a clerks or assistants ein cinderella derella than our best bred men are capable ot of today but after tho the example of 0 the tha girls ft alto ho can wonder at it |