BORN GENTLEMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 217, 13 September 1890, Page 4 (Supplement)

BORN GENTLEMEN.

Traits Which Distinguish the World' B

True Nobility.

We are all made of bhe same clay. The niceab analysis can detecb no difference between the ' blue blood' thab runs in bhe veins of bhe descendanb of a line of and the ' vital fluid' of a pauper, bub there is nevertheless an inborn aristocracy of mind and soul which all men instinctively recognise and which compels respect from the haughbiesb, says bhe New York ' Ledger.' Pabricians by the accident of birtfi are often base, selfish and stupid, but God's gentlemen, though reared in poverby and the heirs of boil, are sure to manifest bheir innabe nobility in spibe of adverse circumsbances.

The genbleman born has bhe righb sorb of pride, boo. He will go oub of his way to Bhow a sbranger the nearest road to any point he may desire to reach, share hia last crust wibh a abarving brobher, peril his life bo protect a woman from insulb, and is ever prompt to aßsisb weakness and avenge wrong. Yeb if you offer him compensation for obeying the impulses of his kindly nature hia cheek will redden with indignation ab the bhoughb of being misbaken for a mercenary, willing bo make a trade of doing good. His labour he will sell, but nob the services which his noble heart teaches him are due to all who are in necessity, bribulabion, or danger. Such a man, though his spelling book experiences may be too limited to enable him to spell the word ' pedigree,' and he may have been 'raised' in a log shanty on salt pork and corn dodgers, is, nevertheless, royal, and the moral peer of any of his species.