Millard County Chronicle | 1912-08-22 | Page 8 | Manners Wait on Leisure

MANNERS WAIT ON LEISURE Modern Day Discourtesy Seemingly the Result of the Unlvsrsal "Rush." The young lady who described a burglar the other diiy as a "perfect gentleman," wasn't very far wrong. For burglars are among the few persons per-sons who can afford the time to be perfect gentlemen. Centle mannera have bad their highest high-est development in periods when time was of smallest Importance. The elaborate code of the French courts was the substance of east. It was bred with the care which only leisure can provide. The gallantry of the antebellum South was as famous as the ante helium hospitality. The one cost nothing of tlnib as the other cost nothing In effort. 'nlle people have been struggling and bumping and shoving In "I," and subway trains In New York, the people who rode In the erosstown horse rnrs relics of an easier eas-ier decade hav been practicing a politeness which, by contrast with the boorlshness so pHlnfulIy evident elsewhere, else-where, was tokening and exquisite. The patrons of the horse cars were those with time to spar. The rush of modern American life Is not an excuse for bad manners. Hut it Is an explanation. We cannot preach economy of time without forcing economies In other things and among these are thnughtft.Iness and consideration.