The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-06-23
HORSE CAR ETIQUETTE.


Various Modes Of Illustrating How 60 Bc-
have Propcriy-Cominon Blundefs.
The young man who has drilled him.
self and been drilled by his dancing
school teacher In the proper ways of
entering and leaving room when nc-
coD'panied by young lady frequently
gets very much mixed up when he be-
gins going about on horse cars with
youpy woman. Perhaps he has been
the fortunate posscssor of mother or
sister who had accompanied him often
enough to give him points upon horse
car etiquette. If he has not. the Now
York Recorder thinks he is more than
likely TO make some dreadful blundcrs.
He usually gets the girl on the car all
right Sometimes, when the car is
crowded, he is bold enough to politely
request several wide-spratling passen-
gers TO move closer together and make
n seat" for his companion. But the TN
sophisticated youth seldom ventures so
far.
II there are plenty Of seats he is all
right, however, although not once in
fifty times docs he think TO seat himself
on the side of his companion that Is near
the horses, so that in talking 70 him
she will not have to turn her bach.
toward then,-a position that Is disa
greeable TO many women Then when
he pays the farc he docs not always
have The change at hand, but he usually
has to unbutton his ovcrcoet and de-
sccnd to the depth Of his trousers pocket
10 find the needed coin Meanwhile.
the girl, II she is young, looks the other
way and tries to appear unconscious II
care. BY end by the car fills up and
some one is obliged to stand The we'll
trained yoHng man has tho kn:scis
Of rising at Just the right moment lift
ing his hat at precisely the correct
nnglc and yielding his seat with a man.
ner that certainly ought to call forth
an expression of thanlss-though it
doesn't always.
The unframed young man. on the
other hand, sometimes keeps his seat
because he does not know how to give
it up, or perhaps he chcrishes the DOORS
belief that 1t Is not worth while to
stand for the sake of u woman when
it's m even chance whether or not she
thanks him Even if he rises, it Is in o
weary, perfunctory fashion. He nudges
the woman to attract her attention,
docs not lift his hat 10 her words Of
acknowledgment or to the salute OF the
man who accompanies her my more
than he would uncover his head IA re-
sponso to the courtesy of stranger
who gnve scat to his coEranson. He
probably does not mean TO be rude. but
he either knows no better or does not
care to take the trouble to DC civil.
There are several different ways In
which q man signifies his desire to lcavc
horse car. Sometimes he makes
wild rush for the door, stumbling over
the feet and skirts of The Esspless and
helpless passengers and waits on the
platform. holding the 6ocr open until
the car comes TO q stnndstili SO that the
woman with him may ,!e3cend safely.
Again re signals the conductor from his
scot and when the car steps stands aside
to let his companion malc her way out
and get off snassisted. tits boon for
which she thanks the gods whcn he no
tifics the conductor ut the right moment,
times his exit so as To reach the plat
form Just as the car stops AID gets to
the ground In shape TO aid her in hey