Show NOT liOl A GENTLEMAN In the tho current number lor of tho rho Metropolitan Metropolitan Met Met- Magazine Is i a It rather Interesting interesting Interest interest- ing article ostensibly furnished for Ol publication by a Chinese gentleman Vho ho has lias his doubts about the tho good sense reuse or the good manners of Americans Amer Amer- leans The fhe publishers of that magazine maga- maga zinc ine announce with a suspicious cast castor of or m mystery Ler that the author Is a n diplomat diplomat diplomat dip dip- lomat of ot hl high h rank and that ho he hasI has hasteen I been teen in this Oils countr country a short short time lime i but hut has arl arrived ved at a vcr very shrewd valuation val val- valuation of the thc things s he sees bees lIe He has I been In m society ant anc h has s seen things he docs does not app approve so he hc tells about them Americans do man many things thins that their I Judgment docs does not l Indorse drEe It t Is not Needful r for Cor a a. man mat t from rom far I which China which we do liot l ot at all nil bc- bc the author authol In question did did to to I tell them that starched Marched Imon If Is Uncomfortable uncomfortable un Un- comfortable not i very pretty prett and ext exx expensive Women orne It do not nol need be hc told their tIre dress Is lIS open to objection as 16 to tho the wind And there arc an customs of ot society particularly table etiquette which has no special pe lal reason reMon for fOl the tho rule But it Il seems f-cems to us the Metropolitan has lias missed the opportunity for scoring a god glod point By no means can tan tho the articles In question have havo been heen ilten by one who had the entree entree en en- tree of good society No matter malLer how accurately he describes the profusion of or table lable cutlery cutler and the various uses of variously shaped torl forks corks the man tells of ot things which do not nol occur at tables among la ladles ladies an and gentlemen The conversation related by the Chinese gentleman Is 11 of the type he ho might get In a boarding house of or the f second grade in lu Washington nut But Ul It It 4 IW n. n at the tho talk which ambassadors am am- of or is 19 not not t typical deal hear countries have People of oC various nou habits and costumes Each various vl Its 1 own Is le least st open to tu believe bellevo ma inn may Each nH may antI and am objection find In the drew and till tho conversation conversation con con- will timid of or tho the others some thing thins to 10 ridicule This pretended Chinaman possesses all the cool arrogance of hl hi race nil all the calm calan assumption of or su But Dut Instead of writing from trout that point of view the time article rings s with the potty criticism of a dI disappointed ap ap- ap pointed e egotist Who ho was born horn In Boston Bos DOR- Boston DORton ton and antI found round Washington not over owr cordial to him hint It tI doesn't sound at all aU like a man elan of wide travel or much learning And It Il rings with uncertainty uncertain t ty front from l lug to en ene end We e think the time Metropolitan i is stringing Its readers and that ft Its author Js' Js not a a. Chinese a-Chinese gentleman at atall all |