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Show . , ' .., ;ILL,.BnEEDMG OF SWELLS. I f ( Oar Jashlonablo' Volls Indifferent ind Utaaffroonble Totvviril .Strutters. ' "Who Ih lhnt,Jlm?" "A Ktrnntrer." j t "Well, 'euve a. brick at him." 1 ' In Oivlllzed life the instinct of nvold- 1 jiuce in by no nitnm&o defined, but n I " .'rlicle8S it is distinctly notiwviblo. ' ijj JCtiiryono 'ho has ever been a majrer ' ij in n Ktranjs land .has nt some tiluof trlt ! i that dcpreswlng setwe. of isolnt ion. ' 1 "I Hhall never forgvt," said an Amor ! n, , im girl who had been thrown more or ' ! lc in the "mnartKet" in London, "mv I I llrst dinner in England. At (able "l '! ot on fairly well with tho men. but afterward In the drawing-room my pen-? pen-? ' . nnce luiffjn. The fashionable women -1 , ' present paid no more attention to me u " than if I were a piece of furniture. My I ' Iioatess, of course, Mould Vk coldly po-1 po-1 ' JH, brinffinff me . basket of photon or f k ' . sonjethiofir of tho kind to look over, and then, with obvious relief would turn to , ihiir friends, while I sat lonely and neg lected until the men come in. IThoy were very much kinder." New York, we are sorry to Bay, haa not tho reputation, of treating out-widern out-widern witli oourtesy, ami unless they are .exceptionally rioh or beautiful or faiJhlonable they receive scant attention. atten-tion. !'There i no place trying," declared de-clared a Washington belle, "and so humiliating' hu-miliating' as a New York nwnibluge of w nlight. acquaintance!!. It cfwtsso.little Jo be polite, oiw would think; but of all ill-bred, indifferent, disagtvouble people I'think a. roomful of New York Ifirls takes the precedence." J 1'1'iw i a very strong charge, but in a f Jiicnsurv it J deserved by our fnli- lounble jMHiple, who are certainly very indifferent to st.rangewand not overturn. over-turn. How different from Anglo-Saxon rmlcnerc are the kindly ways of the Or-jnaus. Or-jnaus. To them a Kt ranger Is a guest and is treated ns such by all present If it is a woman at n small gathering -every man In the, room will lv a.sked to be introduced to her, whether she is attractive or not; that docs not neoefl-j neoefl-j f warily mean that they must stay and comcrse. It i simply a greeting, no ; more; but it puts a timid girl wonder fully at her ense with those present. The women are equally kind and in--( variably make a point of showing conr- iteous n.t.fention to an outsider. ItReems Y & pit' that the same genial manners cannot be more universal, and that the 1 tnie courtesy which springs from a I kind heart and iptrinsio good breeding f Ls not ofteuer met with in noddy. N. I Y. Sun. |