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Show Held by Ktiquette. When Doiu Pedro, then emperor o? TJrnzii, was entertained at the White House ho had been told by a confused senator that it would be expected that he, the emperor, should be the last ol the quests to depart. The president-!) wife, however, informed inform-ed her other guests that they would be expfcted to follow, not precede, the n'yal party in leaving the house. The retttilt wan that no one dared to go for fear of a breat h of etiquette. Cut at 8 o'clock in the Morning a tired woman pretended illness and the deadlock was broken. Great is etiquette, but common sense is sometime allowable. Washington Anthropologist. |