THE COURIER.
"DONT'S" FOR IMPOLITE
PEOPLE.
Don't poae at a reception.
Don't whisper when the play ie on.
Don't relate anecdotes of yourself.
Don't use a lorgnette on all occasions.
Don't use, at any time, slang phrases.
Don't wear diamond studs in the day
time. Don't extend your visit unlets pressed
to do BO.
Don't fail to. pay for the postage .of
your letters.
Don't say sir or ma'am when answer
log people.
Don't discuss your affairs in the
street cars.
Don't wear your hat on the side of
your head.
Don't wear your ovorshoes in the
drawing room.
Don't discuss religion or politics at a
dinner party.
Don't make a first call longer than
twenty minutes.
Don't fall in courtesy to old ladies, 'or
even to old men.
Don't refuse an invitation, however
irksome it may appear.
Don't accept any invitation unless
your hostess is included.
Don't entertain your friends with all
your woes and mishaps.
Don't leave your belongings anywhere
but in your own room.
Don't correct the children of your
hostess. Mothers resent this.
Don't wear creaking shoe3. It makes
a noise and is disturbing.
Don't, it acting as an escort to a lady,
arrive late. Be on time.
Don't use toothpicks at the table. It
is a breach of good manners. '
Don't smoke in the presence of wo
men, unless permission is asked.
Don't discuss your employer in a
crowded car. This is very bad form.
Don't make a great display of watch
chain, or rings on the little finger.
Don't make yourself disagreeable it '
the game of cards goes against you.
Don't use chewing gum. It is a bad
habit, even if it does help digeetion.
Don't reply to a wedding invitation.
A call afterward is all that is required.
Don't look over another's paper in a
c ir when that person is reading.
Don't laugh or simper when talking.
A continual laughing is silly and vulgar.
Don't use your handkerchief at the
table. To blow yonr nose is essentially
provincial.
Don't be late at the family dinner.
Punctuality at all timet should be re
; epected.
Don't rattle the program at the thea
tre, dieturbing the peace of other people.
Don't shake hands 'with a young, lady
when introduced. To bow is quite
enough.
Don't permit any lady to stand, it
there is a seat to be had at a social
function.
Don't remain the whole evening when
invited to dinner, unless the hostess
desires it.
Don't praise your wife to other men
or women. One might as well praise
one's self.
Don't fall to answer an invitation
I when received. A prompt reply is a
courteous aotion.
Don't send expensive presente at any
time, Such favors are very embarrasing.
Don't say "Ah! Yes, indeed. Is it
)OBBlb)e?" when a friend is telling you
in anecdote;
Don't, it you are a business woman,
o to your office dressed as if for an
tfternoon tea.
Don't stand on the outside of a car
)mpelling women to crowd who are
trying to get off.
Don't stand on the street corners en
ding into conversation, obstructing
19 thoroughfare.
Don't borrow an umbrella unless you
return it it posuiblo the same day.
Don't borrow books
Don't, when calling at a house, ne
glect to leave a card for your host as
well as your hostess.
Don't use postal cards except for
business messages. Well-bred people
do not need this Advice.
Don't be late to breakfast, and re
member that the dinner hour is the
event in a household.
Don't fail to say "Good morning" and
"Good evening" to your family every
day in the year.
Don't open anybody's door without
knocking. No amount of intimacy war.
rants such an intrusion.
Don't give a letter of introduction
unless you are quite certain it will bo
agreeable to both parties.
Don't, when making a call continually
consult your watch. It stamps you as a
person of bad manners.
Don't use the word lady when woman
will do "a floe woman," "a fair wo
man," is a title worth having.
Don't spread a slice of bread with
butter. Bread should be broken in
small pieces :nd then buttered.
Don't come to breakfast in your bath
robe and flippers. It is a disrespect to
those who partake with you.
Don't comment on other people's
houses other people's dinners other
people's ways of entertaining; their
friends.
Don't, if you are a man, declare that
women are false and have no hearts. A
girl is a poor affair, indeed, if lightly
won.
Don't fail in respect to the aged
Young people in America are not gen
erally taught this excellent rule in
manners.
Don't, if you are a young lady, call
on a gentleman socially at his office. It
is bad form, and considered bold and
forward.
Don't use ruled paper. Every man
or woman is kjnownby their stationary.
Ruled paper is for children or inferiors.
Don't fail to thank the man who re
signs bis seat in a car for your comfort,
and be sure to do it so he can bear you.
Don't send ar invitation the same
day the event happens. This is a poor
compliment to your friend, and deserves
censure.
Don't say to your girl friends that
you teceive offers eery summer. A
delicate-minded girl keeps these secrets
to herself.
Don't .make yourself too agreeable to
the husband of your hostess, for by S3
doing you will not be booked for next
season.
Don't, when at a hotel use the paper
found there with a view of the house.
This sort of cheap economy is beneath
comment.
Don't drop in to luncheon or staygfor
dinner. "Ring no man's doorbell unless
expected." The day at home is the
time to call.
Don't introduce elderly people to
younger ones. "Young men and young
women should be presented to their
elders not the reverse.''
Dun't talk as if your boy and girl
were the smartest children in the
vicinity of which you live. Your neigh
bors rejoice also in white swans.
Don't, if you are a young man, call on
a young lady without asking her par
ents. It is not a solid way of making a
family acquaintance. New York World
THE BOY GUESSED RIGHT.
Wheelmen in this section will enjoy a
little incident told by "Teddy'' Edwards,
the noted century rider, who is now in
the West. He says that when he was
riding in the suburbs of Utica he asked
a wheelman which might be the beat
road to take from Utica to Syracuse.
The big -limbed stranger eyed the fam
ous century rider's slender shape a mo
meut and said: "Take the New York
Central." Utica Observer.
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