HAT-LIFTING LEAGUE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9068, 7 February 1908, Page 6

HAT-LIFTING LEAGUE.

Paris, December 9. , Known as the“ League to Respect • Women,” a body to encourage politeness in France has just been formed. One of its founders explains the object thus :—“For many years past we Frenchmen have been losing our reputation for politeness to women—in fact, we are no longer as polite as are the English, Italians, or Aus- . trians This is evidenced daily in a hundred little ways. For inf stance, a Frenchman will seldom ever think of giving up his seat in a ’ tramcar or omnibus to a woman. It is quite common at a station to see a man elbow his way through a crowd of waiting women to get in front. „ In railway carriages men will smoke in non-smoking compartments without asking the permission of the women present. We want not to go back to the old, somewhat ridiculous forms of ceremonious politeness, but to keep alive, or rather to revive / something traditional in French conrtssy towards women which is, unfortunately, fast dying out.”