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Show GOOD MANNERS ! Good manners serve to lubricate the cogs and bearings of the social machinery, but in the case of the expert practicer of acts of courtesy and deference, all gooa manners by and by are merged into a conanosite product, which is no longer called "manners," but merely "manner." This is a great deal more than mere politeness. It comprehends all that man or woman hag and ia in the way of thoughtfulness, self-sacrifice, good humor, tact, insight and sympathy. It is the very essence of graciousness without condescension. It makes the I poor man forget his patched and shabby clothing. ; It puts one who is ot at home in strange surround- j ings perfectly at his east; it obliterate caste dis-J tinction between one who has nothing and one who ! has everything. It rides no horse so high that it cannot dismount to play the good Samaritan. And withal, there is serene unconsciousness on the part of the person whose manners have become manner that his unvarying gentility is anything unusual. He studiously avoids advertising himself as the epitome of a gentleman. His acts of generous kindness seem as natural and as simple as walking or falling asleep. He makes it seem as though' his beneficiary was bestowing the favor and not him-! him-! self, and he is unwilling to admit that by anything he has done he has placed any man under an obligation. ob-ligation. The mannerless man believes all minor details superfluous. He believes in being downright, direct, di-rect, brusque, or, as he calls it, "business-like." To his way of thinking time saved is money saved, and he gets more done, as he supposes, by his abridgement abridge-ment of ceremony. He thinks there is something masterful, Xapoleonic, and impressive to other men in his curt monosyllables and close-clipped ejaculations. ejacula-tions. Suavity and urbanity seem to him to involve in-volve a confession of weakness. Philadelphia Ledger. |