Train Travel Etiquette

As for the chewing-gum monstrosity, it is simply unspeakably hateful. Fortunately for the hygiene and the comfort of travelers, the revolting habit of expectoration in public conveyances is a thing of the past…

A Minor Infliction

Among the disagreeable features of a short suburban journey may be mentioned the habit of munching peanuts or eating fruit or candy, in which ill-bred people indulge. A decorous luncheon eaten at the luncheon hour is not an offense to anyone, but it is a distinct misery to sit near a party of people who are eating peanuts and scattering shells upon the floor, and the odor of oranges and bananas on a train is nauseating to many.

As for the chewing-gum monstrosity, it is simply unspeakably hateful. Fortunately for the hygiene and the comfort of travelers, the revolting habit of expectoration in public conveyances is a thing of the past; prohibited under penalties of fine and imprisonment by modern boards of health, it has had its odious day, and no longer moves fastidious strangers from abroad to write of us as if we were a horde of barbarians instead of a refined and wholesome nation, with standards of purity and excellence to maintain.— From “Good Manners for All Occasions,” 1904

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