Courtesy

isowhero is well-bred courtcsy, or the laek of it, more observable thiin in traveling. On the steamboat and iu tho ears the quiet obeerver easily detecta those who havo been eduoated under r , or thoso who, without special cultivación, are posessed of nativo pohtolt is not oducation alone, not wealtb, nor high social position, norcostly trappinge, that makee one a pleasant travellng companion. There must exist a kindiu.ss of ïeeling towards strangera, ral recognition of equal righi tho comforts and eonvenieuces provided fot tliii public, niíl a quickened diseernment tor the needs of otbers. Tho gentleman who spreads out hia luggago on a couplo of seats in the ears, and persistently readg his qb wspaper, detorminately uaconscione that othen who have ú& as niucli as he has aro looking in vain fox a seat, is as truly ill-bred as the country girl who noisily eata her pint of puanuts, scattering shells on seats and fioor, atterly regardlessoí the annoyaüon slie gives her neifhbors. In this democratie country we travel ín public conveyancos too niucli as il' ti.cy wiro our own private carriageg. llow ot'ten the elftventh and tV(.'lt: OW in :i city omnibus, who know they havo full claim to a seat, are discomfited by the outepread gara the immovable attitudes and the blank i i these who happen to hare enteri il the stage bei'oro them ! Common civili'.y demanda that a movemënt bu mi givo room uutil the complement is fllled out; afterward courtesy and generogity will oi'ifin prompt to attentions whioh justico may not require. It is surprising how much the comfort and pleasure of anyjourney, wbether loug orahort, isenhaneed by those liitle íiunioless cour which are offered instinctively and imofliciously to strangers by renned, wellbred travelers, and by peraonn iu whom nativo ti"1 and dslic I niake up lor tho lack of the educating nul relining influenoes of tciety. Btimmei journeying in orowded boats aild oars i-; a test both of patiouce and politeness. - Thrice happy tbose who i?:iss nobly through it, tor their own sake, for the ■ :■ the repiitation of poor huuiun nature in general.