Children should be rigidly instructed not to ask for delicacies of food when they are visiting, otherwise they may become a nuisance.
The habit children often acquire at school, of sticking their lead pencils into their mouths to moisten them, is unhygienic and ugly, and should be broken up.
CHAPTER XXIV
IN PUBLIC
THE subject of this chapter is so large that we almost despair of doing more than touch on a few of the many points it should cover.
Perhaps it would be well to give first a few rules for that most public of places,—the street.
A MAN AND HIS HAT
The question as to the etiquette of raising the hat is one that demands attention,—and yet the rules are simple.
A man always uncovers his head completely when he returns a woman’s bow. He does the same when he meets a man he knows walking with a woman, whether she be known to him or not. When a man is walking or driving with a woman and she bows to a man or woman she meets, her escort lifts his hat. On parting with a woman he bares his head. If he stand and talk with her, he should hold his hat in his hand unless she asks him to cover his head, or unless the day be cold,—in which case he says, “Will you pardon me if I put on my hat?” Then, when he leaves her, he again uncovers.