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Somewhere along the line, we - have started dropping that part of our manners that gives us a tendency to speak of our neighbor with the mark of deference im-< plied by the Mr., Mrs., or Miss before their names.
So far, I’ve not bden able to find when and where we began to lose this habit of the use of surnames. Someone suggested that the custom of use of the Christian name was a Quaker trait and, 1 spreading rapidly through the north, was brought south by the Yankee invasion—g rowing by* leaps and bounds since the 186165 bit of our nation’s history.
Someone else has suggested that it disappeared in public schools with a heterogeneous assembling of all kinds and strata of social life. It is a well-known fact that the broad-A and the soft g’s and. c’s of gyirl, gyarden, cyar, and cyards disappeared when young.sters were thrown into public school where it was not used. Perhaps that is where the term of respect designated by Mr., Mrs., and Miss disappeared, also.
I don’t know where nor when the respectful term was lost—I do know that I don’t admire its departure. N
It has been suggested — in a
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