A GENTLEMAN DEFINED.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1028, 6 April 1894, Page 3

A GENTLEMAN DEFINED.

«, London 'Tit-bits' recently offered a prize' for -* The best definition of a gentleman.' The winning definition is as follows : A knight whose armour is honour, whose weapon is courtesy. The following are some of the definitions offered for competition : A gentleman is one who combines a woman's tenderness with a man's courage. The mirror of mannerly manhood. A man who does his best to do the best. A man whose money mars not his manners. Is one who, wherever he may be, remembers what he is. A happy result of the combined efforts of nature, preceptors and — the tailor. Manly, honest, generous, pure, a gentleman — rich or poor. A man both cultured and refined, who always has it in his mind, and acts upon it always too, to clo as he'd have others do, A gentleman is a person who perfectly combines self-forgetfulness with self-respect. A compound of various good qualities that embellish mankind. One who acts with equal courtesy and consideration to all men, be they prince or peasant. A gentleman is one who realizes that there are others besides himself. The male unobtrusive tit-bit of humanity who makes life a success without blustering or vanity. One who knows what honour is and acts up to it. A man who treats others with considerate kindness and respect because he can't help it. A man who has a great capacity for doing right. A -man who does unto others as he would they should do unto him. He whose first consideration is for tho feelings of others. One who is well-behaved to the meanest of his fellows, kind and genial to his equals, deferential, but not servile, to his superiors. One who is chivalrousy tender to women, honorable among men, and guided at all times by an innate delicacy of feeling.