Show Etiquette I Nearly all rules of etiquette are I elastic and none more so 60 than those governing the acceptance or rejection of strangers you meet When gentlemen are introduced to each other they alwa always s 's shake hands I i When a gentleman is o alady a lad lady it is her er pl place ce to to offer otTer or not as but if he lie puts out his she of course gives ives hers I It is unforgivably rude to refuse a a proffered hand but it is rarely necessary to offer your hand if you prefer not to You are more apt to shake hands with one you find sympathetic sympathetic I than with one one who is the contrary contrary con- con contrary There is a wide distance between rudeness and |