BAD-MANNERED MEN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 December 1924, Page 15

BAD-MANNERED MEN.

GIRIiS W itI;AMK

“Men,” says . thrt ."Vtctoriaft* “are like the modern giH-ngrowilii moife bad-man ner§'d every day.” /Men ; ” says the mpdhffr girl, “siiiiply won't b& bothered with a lfcfe of stiff conventional, .tb'iiiifiy-rot-! If you aren’t ‘hail fellow; well met!’ with the average young/nihil* .you’ll be left dn.the Shell’ —triat’i dll!'’. 1 witched, a girl I kno’W -talking to a man mi the tennis coiirts thfe other day. He Hid his. pipe in his mouth, and merely .shifted it to one side ak he lounged by her . Side. When ishfe left him lie , nbdded off-handedlv, “Well, so-Iong!” “My- dear,” she laughed, “one must remember the times. ■ ’ Men do- as they like these days. Tlifey’re .all, the same, They’ve no manners at all.” • I told her, “Wait a minute.”

An American girl hdcl Stopped to speak to the young man she’d just MK pipe still in his ihouth, he begin to spefik, blit she very soon interrupted. hirri. ‘Tm, sorry.” shd said, bhkl.lv. “hilt I teally can’t hear wHat you’re saying.’ He removed his pipe! was fiidre, I saw a libthd change in his whole manlier. That girl Had put hith ill His plate ! Tlie,fact is that, for a fill’s owh sake., jt never pays her. to let a mart be nidfe to her. Ait absence of good manners means contempt, just as too great familiarity does. A clever girl never makes this mistake. ' That’! what’s meant by “iMkiiig oneself cheap. ’ ’ The girl who, wili.Jet a .man keep’' her waiting, who Will let huh break' engagements with her, who will accept every* invitation lie gives her, who allows him to- kis.s her in,a taxi-eaib. is beihg extradHlihlfily silly. ' She’i putting too low a value on herself, and Unit’s a fatal .mistake,. , ' “1. .shall call you .Phyllis,” said a cdiieeite'd yotiiijj ihah oil bfeirig introduced tb a pretty girl: ° There was a tiny pause. “And I shan’t a^^sw#,’ , she informed him',' very, .calmly. “May T call yon idijniis?’’ was thd way he put it just a fortnight later. This 1 ime she relented . and said “V’es.” The fills who- are the greatest success, who are most admired, most rim after, all have what I might call a certain business sense. Tn other words, they know the value of a. little selfrespect. They know that badmannered men are. good-mannered when they thirilc that to be so is worth while. N<?vsr let ; d Mari either literally or metaphorically talk to you with hid pipe ill His in'otitll!