SEX, NOT COLOR, THAT COUNTS

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 363, 23 April 1903, Page 3

SEX, NOT COLOR, THAT COUNTS

A Betsckeyaw la e*«a<Sr tu*o»tm*a tor an lastenac of If«w Yoeat PoMf«n«M In Pnblia. 1

"Well, suh," said a southern viaito* in New York, reports the Sun, "I hare always stood up for my section when it comes to politeness, but I saw something in one of the kyars of an elevated train in New York that knocks the spots offlof our boasted, high-bred gentlemen. The kyar was comfortably filled; every seat was taken,.when in steps a couple of cullud citizens. I reckon I'll have to say cullud in New York. One of the citizens was a woman. Her man was with her. They were dressed rutha neat, I allow. "Ther' was a very stylishly dressed young man, Caucassian race, next to me, reading his papah. The cullud woman reaohed up to grab a strap. Just then, suh, my Caucasian friend in his stylish get-up arose and tippin' his hat to the cullud woman, says: 'Have my seat.' And doggone if she didn't take it, jest as though she was in the habit of havtn' white m-en give h«r a seat. "At fust blush I wanted to hit that Caucasian, it made me that mad. You nevah would see a white man in the south give his seat to a niggah. And you nevah would sea a niggah take a seat from a white man. But this heah New Yawk politeness seems to draw no line. I confess to you, suh, I .wouldn't a-done what that New Yawk man done; no, suh. At the same time I aljow that it was the genuine article. I reekon, though, it's mighty sca'oe."

Trait Commo* to All Humanity. The regulations as to the costumes to be worn at the coronation of the king and queen of England have brought joy to the hearts of the titled persons of both sexes who will be present at the ceremony, says a Paris newspaper. Love of distinctive signs is not peculiar to the British race or to our own. It is common to all humanity. Napoleon displayed a profound knowledge of mankind and of Frenchmen when he restored the costumes of the old regime as well a* the old titles of nobility.

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