The Comic Book of Etiquette.

Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 98

The Comic Book of Etiquette.

I If a lady drops her purse, not only pick it up, but return it to her. If your hat has blown_off, and you meet a lady, you must ask her kindly to wait till you have recovered your hat, so that you may raise it. If, however, you l are wearing a. wig, honour will be satisfied if you raise that. , •, T . " Never let a lady feel embarr aesed If there is a fire at your hotel, and % ™Jj»» for the escape you meet a lady in scanty attire, remark airily, "Hot enough for one's summer things, isn t it? Be neighbourly. If a dead cat be discovered in your garden throw it back over the wall If you R e * a letter from th« next door people denying that the puss was theirs, write a polite note saying that they may keep it all the same. Never forget that fashions change frona day to day. Formerly it was the thin? for men to look very bored at dances. Now they need look only rather bored. In addressing eervants, never omit the usual little politenesses. They expect them. Take the following conversation t Master: Oh, will you get me my boots? Maid: If what? • Master: Oh, if you please. Maid: If you please what? Master: Will you kindly get me m-f boots, if you please, miss? . ' Maid: That's better. No, T won't. — An English tourist in the West Indies had been warned against bathing in a river * because of alligators, so he went in swimming' at the river mouth, where his gufde assured him there would be none. ' "Hot? do you know there are no alligators here* he asked when he had waded out : deep. "You see, sah," said the guu-j, "dey's too many sharks here. De alligator* is ekeered out. Dis ain't no place for dflitt*