Morgan County Star | 1913-08-30 | Page 7 | Talks on Decay of Manners

TALKS ON DECAY OF MANNERS lord rosebery Rotc bery addresses boys boy of the royal grammar school at guildford london tt th e decay ot of manners mannera was the subject of an address by lord rosebery no sebery to the boys ot of the royal grammar school at guildford lord rosebery who presented prizes to the boys referred to a school statute framed SOO years ago that courtesy and good manners are to be ba established by all good means and proceeded the men of the seventeenth century I 1 suspect the gentlest bred englishman ever produced partly because they possessed good manners themselves and partly because they realized tho the enormous importance Import anca of courtesy and manners in tho the common transactions of lite now we english people and I 1 am afraid still more we scotch people are never famous for good manners I 1 think at one time there was a sort eort of john bull feeling in england that good manners wera a device tor for the dancing frog eating frenchman whom whom it was our duty to despise 1 I think there has been a decay of manners in england scotland and all of the world good appearance and good manners have an enormous commercial mer cial value in life I 1 sometimes wonder why they are not harped on more than on these occasions good appearance you may say la Is not at our command good looks looka are not at our command they are a gift of the gods goda but a good straightforward manly appearance pe arance an appearance without self belt consciousness which Is the most disagreeable feature perhaps of all in appearance pe arance Is within the command of everybody