AMERICAN MANNERS.

Mataura Ensign, 18 April 1917, Page 4

AMERICAN MANNERS.

CRI'IICISM FROM WITHIN

The seemingh bad manneis of Hie mote uncultivated clashes oi Ametiea aie not due to ttnkindliness, hut lather to a In bit ol sell-assei tton that belongs- to the piopei eneicies of a voting nation, arcoidmg to a Piancisro weoklr is tbe n* maple of adveilising oail ied into i domain wboi > ilmr puncinle ou'rht not to be The business in in who is in the Inbit ot assei ting .on bdlhoaids oi in tie now spapet s that his soap oi hib>idling oil is the liest snap oi lubncat.no oil that the woild has e\ei known oi ev ei an know do.es not it oiko d'so'immato between commotrnl advertising in public and self-dis-play in the dinwing-ioom That is why Ins mind olniousK wandeis while \ou .ue speaking to him, hut comes mitantK to a \i\id touts as soon rs lie •jots tie chance lo speak to \o,i That is win the tiff that \on h-no a headai he immediately leminds him ol his p.un m the hack ol the week hefoie lid Th it is win lus conception of pmnnetv demands that ho shall be, if Possible the mo>t CAidenr in the mom 11's whole tempeiament tevolves iieund the idea ol ptounnence The listmginshing maik ot the leallv weHbred poison semis to bp his defeienco oi otheis the skill v\ith whi"h he ner•aiar.os them to talk, the vital impottance that he seems to place upon what tho\ ate suing It is bote that the ngh-oaste excels He is not nioi e unsolhsh than the Amei ican Probablv he his not a tithe of the American's kindliness It is, so to speak, i iiirk, a ohttot. But it is cxtiaoihnaiilv ploavird