Show LITTLE WAYS every one has a distinctive littly 1 way to obtain conclusive proof of this tact fact it is only necessary to watch the world at large when it ruminates rumi nates or converses for ways may be ot of the ruminating or the conversational order to divide them broadly though many be the mannerisms that do not admit of classification tell a a woman that she always punctuates her sentences with giggles and she will think you disagreeable point out that she lisps and she will not believe you rouse her from a alp gnawing reverie and she will think you impertinent and men are quite as hard to convince the way of a person Is so much a part 0 of the person himself that as well might we ask him to top stop the unconscious act of breathing as expect him to voluntarily check his little peculiarity in the first division are arc placed women who frown fixedly or bite their heir lips hungrily when alone or as they think unobserved the women who pat their dresses and locks abstractedly the men who whistle softly tho the men who suck their cane tops and ad so on ad infinitum then among the tha second class are noticed the women who fidget with trinket or ribbon when discoursing the women who raise their eyebrows shrug their shoulders giggle lisp and smile perpetually while commonplace man elects to roll up breadcrumbs bread crumbs as he tall talks 9 to stick his hands in fit his pockets to drag his walking stick along the pavements to smooth the gloss of his shiny hat to balance an unlighted cd cigarette between his finger tips it Is remarkable that persistent mannerism has not yet been treated as an infectious disease worthy of segregation tor for it Is beyond qu question estloa that a very marked way has a highly demoralizing moral izing effect upon those who encounter it listen to a person lisp or stammer and the chances are your own tongue refuses the office see a person squint though this is certainly more of a physical defect than a personal mannerism and your own eyes feel and out of control associate with ons one who gesticulates when speaking and your own movements become freer it Is inevitable human nature being essentially senti ally imitative A hospital or asylum tor for mannerists mannerisms might meet tho the case though there Is great possibility that permanent cures could not ile be effected the tact fact that would most strongly militate mill tate against successful treatment being the entire unconsciousness of the patients that are so BO possessed of peculiar ways 4 I 1 |