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Show An Important Social Innovation. A movement is on foot in Austria and Hungary just now to do away with the form of salutation customary among men that of taking off tho hat. At Oras a committee has been formed which passed a resolution and called upon tho civil and military governors. Baron Keubeck and Count Wiirmbrand. as also on tho mayor of the city, begging them to sanction the resolution by accepting ac-cepting tho military salute from their inferiors. The three gentlemen gladly gavo their consent The wish has also been expressed that the dangeroua custom cus-tom of uucovering tho head for a length of time at funerals should be done away with. It is pointed out that tho military saluto must necessarily imply at least as much respect as lifting the hat, since a common soldier thus salutes tho highest commander in the army. In the Middle Ages tho hat or cap was not doffed. London News. |