THE KING ON MANNERS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 22, 19 September 1911, Page 1

THE KING ON MANNERS.

EXAMPLE FOR ENGLISHMEN.

Speaking at a speed) day celebration at Wolverley School, Worcestershire, the Bishop of Worcester gave an account of a conversation he once had with the King, when Duke of York* on the subject of manners. The bishop said that on the occasion in question he was about to address some public schoolboys when the King remarked: "Why.do you not ask that at public schools manners should be taught ?" In response to the bishop's question as to why ho should specially emphasise manners, the King replied: "Because, as you know. I mix among all sorts and conditions of men. and it has been a positive distress to me to see how often, when abroad. Englishmen lose in the race witli henchmen. Italians, and Germans because of their want of manners.

"The foreigners know when to bow, to shake hands, to converse, to stand up or sit down in.the presence of their superiors, while the Englishman is wanting in these manners. When vacancies have to be tilled those are the points which very often tell, and that is where the Englishman does not shine."