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Title: Everyday manners for American boys and girls
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Philadelphia. South Philadelphia high school for girls. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Etiquette
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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at the same time. If youmust chew (and remember that chewing gum is not arefined habit), let it be within the four walls of your ownparticular room. Eating in street cars comes under thesame ban. If you do not wish to be thought ill-bred,do not indulge in it. Nicety and refinement also demandthat all personal habits should be attended to in theprivacy of your own room. It is common enough to seemanicuring being attended to in street cars. See thatyou are never one of the offenders in this particular. Just as unobtrusiveness is the quality that makes forstreet car demeanor, so is it the indisputable accom-paniment of street behavior. Propriety demands thatthis should be marked by quiet dignity of speech, dress, 86 EVERYDAY MANNERS and movement. Avoid anything which tends to focusthe attention of others upon you. Eating, chewinggum, loud talking, and laughing are as bad here as introlley cars. Crowded sidewalks and crossings offer as manyopportunities for pushing as do our conveyances.
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Chewing a wad of gum is not necessary, Make a special effort to see that you are not the ag-gressor. Keep to the right always. If you are walk-ing two or three abreast and feel that you are likely tocrowd some one who is approaching, the member ofyour group who is at the outside of the walk shouldstep behind the one next to him, thus making it pos-sible for that person to step to the edge of the walk.If this does not give room enough, the one who is nowat the edge of the walk should fall behind the one infront of him. The responsibility rests on the personwho is at the outside of the walk. As he steps back- TROLLEY CARS AND THE STREET 87 ward, he may, if necessary, touch the arm of his com-panion to guide him or her to the edge of the walk.If you do inadvertently collide with some one, sayExcuse me/ or Im very sorry. Meet suchannoyances with good grace and forbear to displayanger in tone or look. Remember that, as Chesterfield

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