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Show NO MONOPLY OF RUDENESS I "What has impressed you most on this side of the water?" a local lo-cal reporter asked a foreigner. "The universal rudeness," the latter replied. But rudeness is like art, it has no frontiers. Tf it exists hereabouts, here-abouts, it exists elsewhere. In London it is rather good form to be rude, lierliit long since discovered discov-ered that an ounce of insolence is worth a pound of Ollendorf. Tn Paris politeness is an extra that is eharged in the bill. Even I in .Madrid. whor highwaymen , still address their prey as your I grace, even there, courtesy is otherwise oth-erwise scanty. I Rudeness is not. therefore a k'isatlantic monopoly. In the savannahs, sav-annahs, in the sierra, along the bayous, farther yet, in the pampas pam-pas of the Argentine, and the glittering glit-tering peace of the Cordilleras, occasionally there may be the gleam of tr 'ek knives, there is r.lso oeeas' lly civility. ' That is nu all Tn New York. , Chicago. San Francisco, the floorwalkers of the department i stores are models of the most perfect per-fect department. Then. also, in the Tombs recently, it colored I felon, apparently black as the aee 1 of spades, yet who, none the less, had been taken rcd-haudcd, referred re-ferred to a fellow felon blacker if possible, and more l-ed-banded than he, as "that other gentleman." gentle-man." Courtesy could go no farther-"Kdgar farther-"Kdgar Saltits in Ainslee's. |