1930’s Dating Etiquette Advice

See her scrambling into Ed’s car without letting him open the door politely! He’ll never forgive her for making the passersby, whom he knows, think he has no manners. 

   

Do You Embarrass Your Escort?

Hettie’s a one-date girl and here's why. She makes her unlucky escort look foolish because she doesn’t know her etiquette. See her scrambling into Ed’s car without letting him open the door politely! He’ll never forgive her for making the passersby, whom he knows, think he has no manners. 

She embarrasses every young man she’s gone out with by speaking of him as her “boy friend” rather than as a “a friend of mine” or “a man I know.” At introductions she says, “Pleased to meet you,” instead of the approved, “How do you do.” She neglects thanking him for a pleasant evening. Men judge girls by just such etiquette errors.– Santa Ana Journal, 1936

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