The manners of the democracy are 'not improving. People push and shove ono another in a crowd; forgotful of comfort :r courtesy. 'No ono kcops to tho right when walking in tho streets. A man shoves past a woman on a staircaso, or ho leaves hoi standing while- he sits. Ho comes into a crowded public room with his hat on, and talks loudly, as if all the place belonged to him. His womenkind do the samo. At resent the working man has tho best manners, tho middle class tho worst.—Lady Violet Groyillo, iu-tho "Graphic." Air. Ernest Fellows, of Prince's Gardens; London, who was one of a batch of motorists fined at Grantham ,for excessivo speed, described tho police-sergeant as the nicest policeman he had ever'met.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 November 1907, Page 3
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