Show THE RIGHT THING at the RIGHT TIME MARY B tARY MARSHALL DUFFEE IN THE STREET CAR OAK Travelers must be content Shakespeare OES the well bred man always D DOES give ghe his seat to a woman In the street car This Is a 0 question that often comes up for discussion Now although In New York and some other large northern cities a good many men who are considered to be bewell bewell bewell well bred do not make a 0 constant practice practice practice tice of getting up for a 0 woman who Is standing It Is generally regarded as asan as an essential of ot the well bred man that Is unless because of age or In Infirmity Infirmity infirmity In- In he Is not well able to do so When a 0 man does not perform this act of courtesy It Is sometimes because because because be be- cause he does not notice that women are aro standing or because In a 0 crowded car he be feels that he would Inconvenience Inconvenience Incon Incon- more persons by attracting the attention of ot the ones who are Standing When you do give your sent seat to a woman you should Invariably In do so with an air of ot courtesy You should raise the hot hat slightly and say sar Wont you take my seat madam This Is the conventional formal thing to r pay flay ay and ond really the simple act of ot offering a woman your seat does not lint entitle you ou to any further comment than that In Ia entering u a car Jt It Is usual for formen formen formen men to permit women to precede them but In crowded cities where con congestions are ore Intense It Is usually conducive of less les disturbance If It you simply enter the car In the order of out ot of a 0 your our position position In getting crowded car cor while n a man precedes the that he woman he is accompanying so 80 can help her to alight he snakes makes no effort to do this this' for the other women present However If a 0 feeble or oed aged woman Is alighting from the car cur he does docs not hesitate to assist her In iii alighting Ua Having performed this little courtesy he raises his hat as os she thanks him The Tho courteous person does doe not go his way through the street cars corR and find other public conveyances ances without keeping his ee eyes open for If one ono attempts attempts at at- tempts t to go about entirely token taken up with ones one's own thou thoughts one I Is sure to be a 0 ver very anno annoying traveling com com- comI I panion I If you have a wet et umbrella you ou I must take take care that It docs does not drip o against someone else If you have bave a suitcase or other sort Olt of hl luggage saJe t he e sure that it Is as little annoyance to others as ns Is possible If you sue see two I II r I I I Ia persons enter the the- car mr when there ther therIS Is Isa isa a vacant seat sent beside you and another I somewhere else II In Ira the car It Is courteous courteous courteous cour cour- j to change your seat so that the I two friends may be seated next nest to each other One woman would do that for two other women or possibly for a n man mon and a woman together If It they were obviously engaged In con con- A man would always do It for two women or n a man and a 0 woman for two men Usually however howe a woman would not thus change seats with two men Copyright r |