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Show Rhuette If a young man becomes accustomed accustom-ed to placing hie mother's chair for her at the table in his home, it will not be awkward for him to extend this courtesy to her, or to other women, wom-en, in public. QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY ALICIA H0YT. (Miss Hoyt will answer personally all letters pertaining to matters of etiquette which are addressed to her in care of this paper, if accompanied by a two-cent stamp.) ETTIB. It is no wonder that you often say things you don't mean "if you talk so fast! You would better cultivate the habit of speaking slowly, slow-ly, so as to give yourself time to think what you are saying. Then, too, other people will have less difficulty diffi-culty in understanding you if vou talk slowly, and they have a right to be considered. M. B. You acted exactly as vou should have done in not reprimand'ing the awkward servant before your guests. It would have embarrassed them greatly; and the maid was sufficiently suf-ficiently humiliated by the accident. A servant, like a child, should never bo corrected in the presence of witnesses. |