- Keep step with any one you walk with.
- Never play with knife, fork or spoon.
- Use your handkerchief unobtrusively always.
- Hat lifted in saying “good-by,” or “how do you do!”
- Do not take your napkin in a bunch in your hand.
- Rise when ladies leave the room and stand till they are out.
- In the dining room take your seat after ladies and elders.
- Let ladies pass through a door first, standing aside for them.
- Let a lady pass first always, unless she asks you to precede her.
- If all go out together, gentlemen stand by the door till ladies pass.
- Eat as fast or as slow as others, and finish the course when they do.
- Hat lifted when offering a seat in a car or in acknowledging a favor.
- Look people straight in the face when speaking or being spoken to.
- Rise if a lady comes in after you are seated, and stand until she takes a seat.
- In the parlor stand until every lady in the room is seated, also older people.
- Cover the mouth with hand or napkin when obliged to remove anything from it.
- Do not look toward a bedroom door when passing.
- Always knock at any private room door.
- Hat off the moment you enter a street door, and when you step into a private hall or office.
- Always precede a lady up stairs, and ask her if you may precede her in passing through a crowd or public place. —Yonkers Gazette, 1890
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