Modern Manners

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 102, 24 January 1933, Page 11

Modern Manners

Sir.—During the holidays a lady friend and myself visited several of the bays. 11 e went to Seatoun aud going out in the car the outside seas were mostly occupied ay young so-called “men,” some of them arrayed in “sports” coats and flannel trousers. No doubt these individuals considered themselves great “sports,” but they were not “sporty” enough to offer either mv lady friend or myself a scat. It remained'for an elderly gentleman to do so. Again, on proceeding to Island Bay >vo found the seats mostly taken up by school children, mostly boys. Here also manners were deplorably absent, and it was only when a conductor came along and made those boys stand up that my friend ana mvself obtained a seat. The modern schoolboy and youth are bereft of manners, and mostly selfish in the extreme. The youth of to-day take. everything as their right, and expect their parents to get up while they lie in bed and ask to be waited upon. This slump would do immense good if it compelled our effeminate and ill-mannered youths of the present day to go into the backblocks and work hard, as many of (heir parents had to <lo.-I an., etc., pAKBNT . Wellington, January 22.