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Title: Our society
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Ives, Alice Emma Beecher, Henry Ward, Mrs., 1813-1897 Williams, Cora May. (from old catalog) Foley, John Samuel, Bishop, 1833- (from old catalog) Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth, 1846-1918
Subjects: Etiquette Physical education and training
Publisher: Detroit, Mich., Darling brothers & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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The True Lady. — The true lady never intentionally
attracts undue attention to herself by any extreme pecul-
iarity of dress, manner or gait. She does not wear, on a
marketing or shopping excursion, a dress suitable only for a
dinner party ; she does not talk across the street, or to any one
in an upper window — unless, indeed, it be a very quiet, retired
spot, and the occasion an unusual one; she affects none of the
ungraceful, idiotic gaits, such as some unknown authority
occasionally pronounces "fashionable," and which, when she
has distorted her walk into a kangaroo hop or a masculine

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IN THE STREET. 59

stride, she has suddenly to unlearn by hearing that something
else has come in.
She does not giggle, laugh or speak loudly, nor rush fran-
tically up to her friends and kiss them at meeting or parting.
She remembers that the cold, critical world is looking on, and
that which would be perfectly fitting in her own drawing-room
or on a sequestered country road, is not proper on the pave-
ments of a crowded city street.

Who Bows First?—The old custom was that a lady should
always bow first, but the later and more sensible one is that
the one who first recognizes the other shall bow, whether it
be the lady or the gentleman. The only exception to this is
when a gentleman meets a lady on the street for the first time
after being introduced to her. He will, in this instance, wait
to be recognized.

Street Acquaintances.— It would be almost superfluous to
add that a true lady never makes the acquaintance of strangers
on the street, were it not that some young girls who, at other
times, convey the impression of being ladies, have been known

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