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THE ART OF CONSIDERING OTHERS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 421, 1013.

The reason why I choose the subject of courtesy for to-day's meditation, says the writer of a weekly column in the Man chester Guardiant, will presently appear. For the moment, it must suffice to say that I have just received a rather un- asual act of courtesy, and that the plea santness of the sensation suggested the theme. Let us proceed scientifically, and consider it under various heads.

1.-I suppose we all are, or try to be, courteous to Women. We do not let them open the door for themselves, or

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for their own tea, or restore the tes-cup to the buffet. We do not puff our amoke into Judies' faces, nor lounge or sprawl in their presence, nor keep our hands in our pockets when we are talking to them. So far so good. But do we always pay them the Courtesy of talking to them as if they ars on our own intellectual level, com- petent to understand the topics which

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on them? This was conspicuously, the habit of Mr. Gladstone the most scrupu lously courteous man I ever knew,--and in no respect was his worthy of imitation. PART more

Courtesy to the Aged. This anfor tunately, is rather a French than an English grace. It must be disagreeable enough to feel that one is old, that one's day is past, and one's company a bore, without being perpetually reminded of it by young self-sufficiency. Lately I heard ayouth, whose mother remonstrated on a breach of manners, reply, "Well, my contemporaries do it, and I don't take my Manners from the Byegonee."A father, rearranging his pictures, was thus dis couraged by his son and heir-"I shall put them all back as they were, and you know yours is not a very good life." These parents were not aged," but surely they deserved rather gentler hand- ling than this. With Courtesy to the Aged, and Courtesy to Parents, I would associate Courtesy to Deaf people, Blind people, Decrepit people to all, in short, who may feel socially. “ out of it,” Surely they have a specially strong claim in the Courtesy which tries to make eve yone feel happy, and contented, and at his ease. 3-Courtesy to inferiore.. "Pleast and "Thank you "are words as amitably addressed to a crossing-sweeper or a tram- conductor as to Lord Derby or the Bishop of Manchester. Always knock at the door before you enter a cottage, take your hat off, and never sit down till you are asked to do so. A youth who calls a footman a flunkey" or the maid at his lodgings a alaver writes himself down a cad. Queen Victoria's instruction to the young Prince of Wales deserved to be graven in letters of gold: "Remember that servants, by contracting to do certain, services for you in return for a certain payment, do not thereby forfeit their natural dignity As your fellow-creatures and fellow- Christians."

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4-Courtesy to Friends. There is no World-wide reputation, deeper delusion than to imagine that one's friends enjoy discourtesy.

ed.

The

stronger our love, the more sensitive it! is to every little-jar or friction. The dearest friends feel hurt by that which quaintances would pass over unregard- Love is sensitive to the smallest detail; it is anxious and scrupulous over the delicacies of its intimacy." Nothing is more odious than an unwarranted familiarity. Cowper, the type of delicacy, had felt it and winced under it.

The man that bails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back

How he esteems your merit,

Is such, a friend that one had need

Be very much his friend indeed

To pardon or to bear it.

Then, again, where young men consort, there is certain to be chaff, and chaff, like slang, may be vulgar or gentlemanlike. Courteour chaff is a sunlit ripple on the river of social intercourse. Rude chaff is more like a "Poke in the Eye with a ̈ Barat Stick."

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5-Beyond the circle of Friendship, there is the Courtesy of Acquaintanceship and mixed society. "Sorry" is a poor aubstitute for I beg your pardon," when you bave done au accidental discourtesy, but it is better than nothing. All good manners the little refinements of eating and drinking, the rules of speech and gesture and action-all have their roots in wholesome instincts. One does not willingly do what will certainly diegust or annoy another, nor will courtesy in- Bist too urgently on its own likes and whether comeons why died thirty years desires.

The man who, sitting by the age has any living descendants-1 quote. lady of the house, whipped up the napkin my instances at random, but they will of the champagne bottle, and then, sur-serve,and how often does one write even veying the label, said, "No, thank you," the shortest letter to say how much lacked consideration for his hostess; and obliged one is by his friend's kindness, he who, seeing that the supply of green and how trouble which he has saved us. poase was ebbing in the dish, shouted. If one is for the and it is an emphatically

"Hi waiter, bring those to me next,

Halicised my own conscience were lacked consideration for his fellow-guests. tender in this matter, it would feel very And, in matters other than material, acutely the courtesy of the Literary Club Egotism is the ruin of mannera. How at Hyde, who, baving asked me to write on a certain topic, have thanked me for ever fond one may be of talking, one complying, and promise to practise my should remember that others may wish to say a word. One should bethink one

precepts. This is courtesy. I make my that subjects

which oneself is keen bow to Hyde

7I have spoken, so far, of the uses of may be profoundly uninteresting to the Courtesy in amicable intercourse: but company. One should avoid making one's memory an engine of conversational de-assuredly its uses do not stop there. In spotism-"I recollect is often a word fault-finding, criticism, and public con- of fear to those around one..

troversy, Courtesy adds immeasurably to Berious argument has no proper place in general the effect of the attack The attack may conversation; and a man who endeavours be as vigorous as one chooses to make to shout down opposition is rightly voted it; one may expose every weak point in

boor as well as a bore...

the opponent's armour, may convict him of self-contradiction, and cover him with ridicule but it can all be done with A noisy man is always in the right: Courtesy avoids Display-not only of effectiveness by being so done. The glove Courtesy, and wil gain enormously in wealth or station, but of all larger oppor- which one finge down in challenge should HONGKONG DAILY PRESS tunities and richer gifts in a word, of be perfumed sweet as damask roses." everything which tends to put others at. a disadvantage.

and Cranstoup's lance will pierce the From first to last, Courtesy seeks Equality About the most Borderer's mail not less shrewdly because courteous knight: We perfect instance of the Great Gentleman it was aimed hy

cannot too carefully ponder Burke's great Duke of Westminster; and, when he was spending his millions on Eaton, he used service and conduct of the Common that are lovely in private life into the to pop about Cheshire in third-class car- riages, just because he was thus enabled wealth, and so to be Patriots as never to to travel on even terms with his friends forget that we are gentlemen.” and neighbours.

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After all is said and done, the essence of Courtesy is Unselfishness, and what makes the real gentleman is gentleness. great. Dr. Fusey, who was an aristocrat on both sides of his descent, wrote thus:-

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It used to strike me, in young days, how the preference of others to self, the great shock that it evidently was to give. pain to anyone, the consideration of everyone's feelings, the thinking of others rather than oneself, the pains that no one OFFICE in Alexandra Buildings, should feel neglected, the deference shown to the weak or the aged, the un- conscious courtesy to those secularly in- ferior, were the beauty of the refined worldly manners of the old school that it was acting upon Christian principles, and that, if in any case it became soul- tiful form was there, into which real life lean, as apart from Christianity, the beau- might enter."

which

On those words I would pause. This column is not the place for sermonising, and therefore I will not now say what believe about that Real Life alone is the true and everlasting Life of Man. But everyone who reads this paper, whatever-be-his convictions about things Unseen, can do something to maintain the "beautiful form" of a watchful, delicate, and self-effacing Courtery; into which, in the fulness of time, Religion may enter, - and find a mansion prepared for herself. Courtesy, indeed, is not Christianity: hut Christianity and Courtesy have at least this much in common that, both teach us

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6-Courtesy is grateful. How often in a liftetime does one ask a favour! How often does one remember to acknowledge it. One pata a friend to any amount of trouble asks him to find a lost quotation.

8-Courtesy has nothing to do with social position. There are ne more courteous people than Agricultural La- bourers, and none, let me hasten to add, who more instinctively detect the want of courtesy in their supposed superiors. I have never known more discourteous or to decipher a manuscript at the British brutes than may sometimes be found in Musanm, or to buy something which one

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BS. "SHINYO`MARU.”-

FROM SAN FRANCISCO, VIA HONOLULU. JAPAN PORTS and MANILA, THE above-named Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified to send in their Bills of Lading for Counter signature, and to take immediate delivery of Cargo from alongside.

Cargo remaining undelivered on WEDERSDAY, the 3rd Inst at 5 r.. will be landed at Con

and expense and delivery must then. signees risk be taken from Company's Godown.

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