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Show Different Social Customs. A recent writer says: "The Chinaman China-man bends to the very ground when he salutes; the Russian, farther west, takes off his hat and scrapes with it his very path; in Prussian Konigs-berg Konigs-berg always farther west the pass-ersby pass-ersby salute each other by taking off their hats or caps very low; in Berlin the head covering is raised but little; in Paris still less, in London not at a.'l or with a difference. The Ameri can keeps his hat on immovably and never bends, but all civilized nations, of course, take off their hats to the ladies." |
