"IRENÆUS," in the New York Observer, says: "The stage was full—six on each side. A woman—observe I do not say a lady—entered with two children, a ten-year-old boy and a younger girl. As she could not find a seat, I gave her mine, and the children stood at her knee. Presently two persons left, and the boy and I sat down opposite the mother. Now two ladies entered, and the mother instantly bent forward and said to her son, 'Keep your seat; I paid for you.' This was a lesson in politeness that would probably determine the manners of that boy for life. The mother had just before accepted my seat, compelling me, a man twice as old as herself, to stand up in an omnibus; but the moment when her little son had an opportunity to be kind to ladies, she interfered and bade him keep his seat. * I was coming up-town, and entered the stage in which five elegantly-dressed and fine-looking women were sitting on each side of it. They might be the lady patronesses of some society. There was room for another person on each side, but not one of those ten women moved to make room for me, and I rode a mile or more while those ten women—I do not say ladies—declined to give me a seat, as they could have done any moment, without rising or crowding. The most of them were probably mothers. But as the instinct of good manners—that is, of politeness, which is simply the law of kindness—was not in the breast of one of the ten, what is to be expected of their children? They cannot teach what they do not know, and, as they know nothing of politeness, their children will be boors, and the mothers will never know it."