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Show A Chapter on Politeness. Politeness consists in concealing from other people the fact that they annoy you. If a man springs up from his seat in a crowded car to give it to a woman, that Is politeness. If he permits his wife to drag a chair from one room into the other, while he is smoking and reading the evening paper, that Is Innocent absorption. ab-sorption. It pays io be polite when It doesn't cost anything. Politeness originated In the garden of Eden, when Adam fell merely to oblige Eve. (And yet they say that man is selfish.:) We should always be polite to our inferiors in-feriors in the presence of our superiors. Xoth'ng is more effective. The man who is truly polite never for-pets for-pets himself. Such . a man. if he is obliged to kick another man downstairs, will always see" that his hat is sent out to him. Children are naturally impolite, until I they are taught that they cannot hope I to make much money without. f Always be polite when you are bor- 1 rowing money from a friend. Remem- F - ber that it doesn't cost anything to give , him the impression that you are goin? i j to pay him back. I There are two kinds of politeness: pn- " liteness to yourself and politeness to I I others. . ,.; When you come home late at nis'nt. .: for example, even if you are very tired, j always remove your hat and coat be- ' fore going to bed. It i3 little attention like thia that constitute you a gentle- : man. At the same time, do not disturb . your wife if you "can possibly avoid it. It is the height of rudeness to awaken ; a sleeping lady. I The polite man is, always welcome everywhere. That is, almost every- f i where except at a bargain counter, a I fire, or a financial panic. I Then he i U trop. Lippincotfft. I . |