| Show DISPLAY NOW EVIDENCE THAN COURTLY MANNERS OF OLD suavity and of war ancestors would be ridiculed in this day of newly rich vulgarity you often hear tha expression a fine old gentleman or lady of toe anc ent 1 ool meaning thereby a stately courtesy and dign fled though kindly beanes which were common in great grandmother grind mother s caas but which are too lost abt of in our own the bairy 01 bus ness avs the lancater pa examiner and hiX pres has in faded social circles and has been uc comi acied by a brusqueness ot manner that eu irely disregards th lee nes 0 others lor wit ate davs sub ti u ed rune e s which has in common with vit the element of tl e id we nal n al e a conal ct 0 all our social in ei course and are more anxious to say or do something tha hurt ones feelings or over one with ment than to say a pleasant thing that has not enough point to it to excite re marl or 1 applause the success of a in is so s it is spontaneous and uncounted that it is den as our and et mu i ing our invention Tilt hout in form ng our judgment other labors as good bukalt however light or its imme diate reward in the davs of our grandmothers they tool li e leisurely more easil and were not in a hurry even for the laugh the d altmore elt more on the things of life studied more the pleasure and comfort of the kinsfolk and acquaintances and this mere practice of a virtue as the fashion of be day shed abroad in the a kindliness kind linets and a grac for which v e have noab ng in modern times to correspond one has only to meet tor a moment one of these old ladles to note the serenity the thoughtful conald oration the almost formal respect not for the feelings alone but for the mere opinions of everyone present it is well to have a grandmother in the houte it for no other purpose than to teach the young how to behave toward one an other to show them by precept and ex ample the of any pleas ure purchased at the cost of pain to othere the best teacher man eve had was his old fashioned grand mother there ie no doubt that the new riches which sprang up gince the civil war have manners by ig borant display mone can never make a the latter tl product of blood inheritance and the old time a aoi b a e tool shiy and altOe Cl cr too passion ate southern planter ot abe old recline ih in net on the inac er bockar of hev orn Is squeezed out by imposing ma silve frontage and liveries ot the new I 1 our hun dred dr oliver encel enc ll holmes adrah min clasa in nev englard Is extinct truly abe fine old irish rent em n in our days be lice on the streets and laughed at in the ballroom but if are ten vulgar the a e genero is never before have spent so much on education higher end low cr or given more to increase In creise the true and beautiful in art or sweetness and light in literature and science |
