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Show VULGARITY AT WEDDINGS. Xot long ago n young couple were married in this city by the deputy clerk. As they stepped out of the county building, they were met at the door by a hoodlum gang of young men and women who showered them with rice and followed them to their hotel with jeering- and what passed for funny remarks. re-marks. This was a public exhibition of vulgarity, on the part of a well-dressed gang of rowdies of both sexes, which is a common occurrence at many weddings in our inland cities, towns and rural districts. dis-tricts. Why should the solemnity of a sacred contract con-tract be made a mockery by, an exhibition of unrj strained vulgarity, bordering on downright blackguardism, black-guardism, and degenerating at times into brutality bru-tality Why should a sacred happening, like a marriage, release at times many of those present in the church or clerk's office and, what is yet more intolerable in-tolerable and incomprehensible, the indiscriminate and uninvited public, from all the restraints of ordinary or-dinary good manners and as often as not of common com-mon decency? It is a reflection upon our civilization civil-ization that public opinion and the laws of our country tolerate these shameful buffooneries, survivals sur-vivals of heathen saturr.alia and Italian charavari. Xapoleon Bonaparte is credited with originating originat-ing the epigram, "Scratch a Russian and you bleed a Tartar;" that is, uader a Russian's skin is con-t con-t - cealed the Tartar's cruelty. If the young people, who wantonly wound the feelings and enjoy the humiliation hu-miliation of a newly-wedded couple, are stripped of their fine garments, their plated jewelry, and their thin veneer of respectability, there will remain only exhibits of 'animated sham and vulgarity. By their public display of bad manners, they advertise a pitiful pit-iful neglect of home training, the degeneracy of the stock from which they sprang, and the innate stupidity stu-pidity that no public school training and no association asso-ciation with refined people may ever redeem. An educated public opinion must train the fire of its condemnation on these well-dressed hoodlums, these caricatures on ladies and gentlemen, these degenerate degen-erate specimens of our twentieth century manhood and womanhood. Our city. owes it to its good name, society owes it to itself to resolutely condemn such public manifestations of vulgarity, boorishness and low breeding. Persons who will not conform to the rules of simple decency, or who have' not been taught respect for the feelings of their neighbors, must, be made to obey the unwritten laws of every self-respecting community, the law which pro: claims respect for the rights of a fellow and reverence rev-erence for the sanctity of a woman's nature. We do not look for chivalry among ill-bred people, but we do demand from them conformity to the established estab-lished customs of public decency and to the traditions tradi-tions of good manners governing every community j where law and order prevail. |