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^he Dingbat Family Bad Manners of Good People The Sparkling Glass Is All Right in Poetry, But inman Copyright. 1913. International N#wa S*f'lc< (How A&our S morrouu ! - To-MOfeftCHV I < yes. /Gvsclf Lunrn bTEKDAyS seven/ XJSAAJD ypAAbV JAh MV BELOVED.! 1 ’ /Fill the cup That clears) To-Day of past RBsiHtr/yr*' V/vvd future Fears\=lJ POOEV WATER. rfo-A/opRowj 7 5URE. IF IT WAS wwAT YOU Thought IT was;J youb BE. Do/M 6- c— y To -MORROUJe' SEVEN P By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER. {{fTMJE ban manners of good f people astonish me!” ex claimed a woman. I looked at her in surprise. Surely good peo- | pie's manners are no wot*^ v than | those of bad people—4n fart, they are better. \ - "I know that,” she returned,hen I made this protest, yet one does expect better things of people—at least of respectable people—than one i sometimes tinds. I have thought of it often since then—especially in public places— as I have watched well-dressed, in telligent-looking men and women and noted their lack of courtesy—of course one sees this, especially in the public conveyances. I am sorry to say that I often have cause to blush for my own sex. When I see men rise that women may be seated— (yes! they do this sometimes!)—one woman out of three, perhaps, will say, "Thank you!” Watch the Women. Do you doubt this statement? Then watch the well-dressed women and girls on the crowded cars at the ! rush-hour. A man who is, it may be, I tired after a day’s work, rises and • motions to a girl stading chatting and giggling with a friend, to sit down. Still giggling, she says to her friend, "Don’t you want that seat?” The other girl giggles in return and Insists that she would "rather stand,” and, at last, number one drops into the proffered seat and the kindness of the man is not recognized, even by an absent-minded nod. I have seen an elderly man whose wnlte hairs certainly entitled him to respect, rise, and, lifting his hat, say in a courtly manner to the weary woman standing in the aisle—"Pray, Madam, take my seat.” Bhe took it, naturally, and although young enough to be his daughter, she scarcely glanced at the kind-hearted man. She certainly did not thank him. There are, of course, many in stances in which the woman who ret ceives this attention does say "Thank you!" or "You are very kind!”, or I am much obliged to you!” I an* not in a position to say how often a man receives such return for hi$ courtesy, but many of the men whom I have consulted on this matter tell me that the woir who utter no word of acknowleo B ^ in such in* stances are more numerous thaa those who do. What about the men who do no| rise when women svre standing? There are so many of them that one takes them for granted. Some of them, ostrich-like, hide their head3 behind the morning or evening pa-r pers, and Seem to feel that so lond as they do not show their faces the:i, lack of courtesy is not observed. v Seem Too Absorbed. Others have pot the grace to wisit to conceal their features or to try j to seem too absorbed to notice the | women who have no seats. They do I not care, and are willing that people j should know that they do not. care. But let us put. down- a bread mark of credit to the many RhATz " I t>UWT make. AJo BoneX Aeout IT I6NAT2'; UJHy \ bUG-GUA/AJiT ‘ UJHEAJ IM A \ Med felleks a cup of y "Stwong tea A/vt ajcduvg, j \ SomeT/mes i take Two / g V wociba: i cape Foe ' LJ? ^^STftOAJG DftiAlK ?- AlOTT/AJ ‘STftOAIG DftW Ky\ ,0H KRA2X‘cru, \ fD AjeveR Thought ex c voo - *AiTe&. . AajoThe cup of , 'STHOmg- i -O0L0AJ6G y I Tell You l&uAYz'; IM A mans OP SUCH UOILDS PE5SI0M ThAT^ / MUST OFTEN) TAKE Aj~ STRONG DRINK To <~ W; Steady aw merle Cowardly Desmond Refuses to Meet Our Young Hero in Fair Fight Dauntless Durham of the U. S. A By Hershfield Copyright, 1918, International News Service UNHANt) me ^ESMOND my Durham WJILL PUMCH Tour face i good ahb the conductor sa vve <^ot -rne AVA.sk.’ I ReFu&CTJ TO G< \i€ UP THe ball unless \ I CfOT IT, HA. , IV HA, HA DESMOND HAS MY KATRINA ON THAT TRAIN . DAUNTOFiS flLlRMAM CAN AND Will PUNCH HIS V FACE WHEN I GET , KATRINA i YOU ARC - J WHAT-A 5 BASEBALL t THROUGH i THE WINIHN llL C HOOAC .First , THFRjE will rf a i STOP OF THRee HOU^S THE WINNING SIDt Y WINS K.4TKINA, y FACe TO - OUCH A BA.seBALL- c mask: ^ You WOULD , ROB A (BOY^ REMEMBER ITS A FOUC I BALL, vADolPHV QUICK, MAY IT wGWT IN THE PARLOR CAR.' THE BASE’S full: Durham AT BAT* -TOMORROW/- tired’ men—< men who have, toiled from morning to evening—who deny themselves the comfort of a little rest that a woman may sit down. They are not always the handsomely, dressed men, either. It is interesting to note how many voluntary strap hangers on the evening trains are cheaply dressed clerka, or grimy- handed working men. But at heart they are gentle. It is foolish to term "ill-manner ed” the hustling and crowding in the cars. It is an "every-man-for-him- self”, skirmish, and if one would not be jostled out of the way, one must go with the mass. So I do not criti cise that state of affairs, as the cour teous* and discourteous are all in one mad scramble bent. But the cars and the shops are often places where the bad manners of the people who arc, at least, good-looking are conspicu ous. Watch them rush into the swing- doors of the shops, heedless of the person coming behind who may be struck, by the heavy door as it slams shut; notice the women who push others aside at counters; observe the customers who are disagreeable to the saleswomen (we will not dis cuss the saleswoman herself—there is not room for that); note the peo ple in line at the box-office window who do not respect the place of each person, and who will, if the op portunity arises, "steal a place,” thus getting to the window ahead of the man whose right it was to get there first. Yet most of these are respectable, seemingly kindly folk. As to offenses in the drawing room, the dining room and the office —there is time to do no more than" touch upon these. All of us know the person who inquires, ‘What kind of work are you doing now? Why did you change from your last position?” or who even asks. "Are you making as much money at your new job as you did at your last?” Those Who Forget. \ We all know the people who for get to answer Invitations, who corf® late to dinners, who are never punc tual at any appointed time and plare. Perhaps all those thoughtless deeds and speeches may not be termed ac tual rudeness, but if “Politeness is to do and say The kindest thing in the kindest way,” we may Insist that people who do the things that we have mentioned are at least hardly kind. We are not discussing the big discourtesies, rough speeches, disgust, ingly bad manners, outrages against good breeding. But one wonders if many excellent people might not pav more heed to the trifles, the little considerations which, in public - private, are the drops of oil in the machinery of life that make it run smoothly and without jar. By Cliff Sterrett Pa Runs Up Against One of the “Exclusives’ ”Rules Copyright, 1913. International N«w« Serric* '/o'ALL ktflWY FETCH VL'FLCOUIL To 'HIGHBROW II THE . i — . O . I / A r>e- i A., l) . ir- i y- .1 r... SoRRV BoSS. BuT Rut tS is Rules* 1 AlMT I DELIVERY BoY i Ln/£ WREj -T l DO ! C heights," PollV are vfou, StopfW hfre at f 'The EXCLUSIVE"? WO PACKA6E w DEI FRONT 'WAV, All L DELIVERIES MUST WEIGH BORHOOD J BGEAWIE Too f RLE BE MM'r BELIEVE ME..' 1 l'M (jOMMA BRiuCrt aPackMlin That TRokjT door itJ ? AbolI a HOUR. ; THAT'LL Go DCW/U | IM HtfreRV 1 . J maul. AT re Side ' aTx ) i5oor!P P.4RDOM Mt. MOILS BUT M4'5 M/AI'TIM’ FER. THESE HERE ^AStjgPlWES !j By Tom McNamara It’s Easy to See There’s Something in the Wind Refistered United fttatea Patent Of flea I LIKETODR NERVE!-DON'T you DARG TO GOSSIP A&DUT ME YOU BUSY f C BODIES! r ^ J 8£TfHA CNIT QPEN ycn? TojTh THIS WiK All Right, i'm game! 8Y 6011% YOU Jusr LOOK IN THIS PAPER THE DAY AfTER MORROUJ, 111 ©eTYodu. 86 SURPRISED ALL R16HT. You Jusr see 1 . J £ COME ON DOUJ.V TO SOME ) onicr Di afp i r J (SOSH, SOME BODY'S) NQOJ YA GOTTA PROMISE ( COME ON DOWN HERE ’ .tin. _ A i . . I «■ „ SKINNY SHANER’5 6OOG1Y DEPT SHANER'S aKluiNL> mo. 19 EjOUJL OF HOT L£S$0Mi TOhOATO SOUP I SISOM UFE) U)HEAJ IS A MECHANIC'S COAr U/HERE THEY CANT 5EE US, COME ON’, r— [ 1 QOlET place Yooll keep this under, your hat.* 1—- Too Much Liquid. Farmer Jenkins believed in the good old-fashioned idea of giving all the farm hands and laborers a real good Christmas feed at the festive season. So he determined to give them something to remember last year, and ordered the feast to start with soup, to be followed by goose, roast beef and unlimited supplies of plum pudding. The farm hands duly assembled, / and. having fasted all day so as to be / in good trim for the Christmas feed. 1 were prepared to make the supplies/ look foolish. Roast goose and beer were all they expected. “ ’Ere, what’s this ’ere?” said a dis appointed son of toil when a huge plate of soup was placed before him, “You’ve forgotten the goose and stuf fin'; I don't wan’ all gravy I” LIKE A ATHLETE i - WHEN lT'6 A JUMPER- oh&sh,u)HT OiDm t TOO TW/NK of THAT, huh ! mmt m fpi tp-d/uy froiruimo * Jamaica- u.s.a. ftiHAt DOBS THE BUFFALO OU ~hS MEW/ NICKEL SfAND TOR HUH? ^ 4MSUIER TO-MORRoiJ 8T 6l>M -W—— ( ) Y 1; r*i