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Show Effect of Sanitation on Literary Manners Literary manners have alteivd, not only as a result of the enlargement of the audience though that was bound to have an Important effect on Utern-tuiv Utern-tuiv lint as a result of changes In the milliners and customs of everyday life. The Increase of privacy, tlu Improvement Im-provement of sanitation, the growing custom of cleanliness both of habits and of the body, and the abolition of many gross usages, hnw resulted In making many things that once were the comic contretemps of ordinary life mx'iii now merely offensive lrrel-evancies. lrrel-evancies. Probably Improved sanitation has had more Influence on literary manners man-ners than anyone yet suspects. You will notice that what Its enemies en-emies call prudery Is most general In countries In which sanllalton has made the greale.it progress. If Itabeliils were to return as an Kngllshniaii or an American today, he would probably find himself blushing blush-ing like n Victorian girl at having uiaile some of his own Jokes. This Is not (o belltlle the Jokes of Kabelnls, but mvrely to rccogul.o (hat the manners man-ners and convictions that were the natural soli of many of those Jokes no longer elsl today.- Robert I.ynd In the Atlantic Monthly. 1 |