The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-06
HORSE GAR ETIQUETTE.
Various Modes of Illustrating How to 10
have Properly-CommonB lnnders

various Modes of illustrating How To De-
have Properly-Common Blunders.
The young man who has drilled him
SELF and been drilled by his dancing
school teacher in the proper why's of
entering and leaving q room when nc
companies by Il young lady frequently
gets very much mixed up when he be-
gins going about on horse cars with a
young woman. Perhaps he has been
the fortunate possessor of n mother or
sister who had accompanied him often
enough to give him points upon horse
car etiquette. If he has not, the New
York Recorder thinks he is more than
likely to make some dreadful plumbers.
lie usually gets the girl on the car all
right. Something's, when the car is
crowded, he is bold enough to politely
request several wide-spreading, passcn-
gers to move closer together and make
seat for his companion. But the I'M
sophisticated youth seldom ventures SO
far.
II there are plenty of seats he is all
right, however, although not once in
fifty times does he think to scat himself
on the side of his companion that is near
the horses, SO that in talking to him
she will not have to turn her back
toward them-a position that is disa-
greeabc to many women. Then when
he pays the fare he docs not always
have the change Mt hand, but he usually
mas to unbutton his Ovcrcoat and de-
scend to the depth of his trousers pocket
TO lind the needed coin. Meanwhile,
the girl, if she is young, looks the other
way and tries to appear unconscious. If
she is an older woman she does not
care. BY and by the car fills up and
some one is obliged to stand. The we'll
trained young man has the knack
of rising ut just the right moment, lift
ing his hat at precisely the correct
angle and yielding his seat with man.
ner that certainly ought to call forth
an expression of THINKS though it
doesn't always. "
The unframed young man, on the
other hand, sometimes keeps his scat
because he does not know how to give
it up or perhaps he chcrishes the Doors
belief that it is not worth while to
stand for the sake of a woman when
It's an even chance whether or not she
thanks him. Even if he rises, it is in a
weary, perfunctory fashion. He nudgcs
the woman to attract her attention,
uocS uOt llII MS nat TO her words of
acknowledgment or to the salute of the
man who accompanies her any more
than he would uncover his head in re-
sponsc to the courtesy of stranger
who gav,, a seat to his companion. lie
probably does not mean to be rude, but
he either knows no better or does not
care to take the trouble to be civil
There are several different WAYS In
which n man signifies his desire to leave
horse car. Sometimes he makes a
wild rush for the door, stumbling over
the fe.t and skirts of the haplcss and
helpless passengers and waits on the
platform, holding the door open until
the car comes to standstill SO that the
woman with him may descend safely.
Again he signals the conductor from his
seat and when the car stops stands aside
to let his companion make her way out
AID get off unassistcd. 1t is boon for
which she thanks the gods when he no
titles the conductor at tho right moment,
times his exit so as to reach the plat
form just as the car stops and gets to
thj ground in shape to aid her In hcy
descent