Tips on Dating Manners
The recipe for popularity is to meet every little emergency with poise. You're off to a dance and the wind stands your best hair-do on end. Must you wait for your escort to come to your rescue ? Not at all. Say, “Do you mind if I roll up this window?” Or be nonchalant and tie a scarf or handkerchief over your curls.
Your glove drops on the car floor. Bill can't drive with one hand while he stands on his head looking for it. Maybe you can retrieve it gracefully yourself. Otherwise, wait until you get to your destination before you suggest a search.
At the dance, your old friend Don appears, tries to take you in tow. Bill swings into a brand new step you just can't follow. It's no trick at all to handle situations like these —if you know the rules. – Santa Ana Journal, 1937
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