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Show nats und Elevators. The question of taking ono's hat oil Ui the elevator may be readily disposed dis-posed of when one rakes into consideration consider-ation tho facr. that tho elovatrr is merely mere-ly a means of passage from one portion of a building to another, aa in the stairca.e or hallway. One does not go about with one's hat in one's hand in the corridor of a hotel or mounting the stairs of a hut-moss building. The 1 1 ft iug of the hat in the eU'vator is a custom cus-tom of English derivation but if it is against reason and common sense it need not perforce recL'ive sanction hero. Besides in England the elevator is a j "lift," and perhaps ihe male passeniror Unconsciously lifts his hat in sympathy with that nomenclature. Clothier and Furnisher. |