The Arizona sentinel., 1892-12-17
HORSE CAR ETIQUETTE.
Various Modes of Illustrating How to Be-
 have ProperIy-Comnon Eiunders.

Various Modes of Illustrating How to Be-
 have PrOperIy-Comnon Blunders.
 The young man who has drilled him
 self and been drilled by his dancing
 school teacher in the proper ways of
 entering and leaving a room when ac-
 companied by 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 poSsesSCr of a mother or
 sister who had accompanied him often
 enough to give him points upon horse
 ear etiquette. If he has not. the New
 York Recorder thinks he is more than likely to make some dreadful blunders.
 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-spreading passen- gers to move closer together and make seat for his companion. But the un- sophisticated youth seldom ventures so far
 If 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, 50 that in talking to him she will not have to turn her back toward thcm-a position that is disa- greeablc to many women. Then when he pays the fare he does not always have the change at hand, but he usually has to unbutton his Overcoat and de- scend to the depth of his trousers pocket to find 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 lInack of rising at 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 thanks-though it doesn't always.
 The untrained young man, on the other hand, sometimes keeps his seat : because he does not know how to give it up, or perhaps he cherishes the boor's belief that it is not worth while to stand for the sake of a woman when i it's an even chance whether or not she | thanks him. Even if he rises, it is in a | weary, perfunctory fashion. He nudges ! the woman to attract her attention, ] does not lift his hat to her words of 1 acknowledgment or to the salute of the man who accompanies her any more than he would uncover his head in re- sponse to the courtesy of stranger who gave a seat to his companion. He probably does not mean to be rude, but he either knows TO better or does not care to take the trouble to be civil.
 There are several different ways in which man signifies his desire to leave horse car. Sometimes he makes wild rush for the door, stumbling over the feet and skirts of the hapless and helpless passengers and waits on the platform, holding the door open until the car comes to a 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 and get off unassisted. It is boon for which she thanks the gods when he no- tifes the conductor at the right moment, times his exit so as to reach the plat form just as the car stops and gets to the ground in shape to aid her in her descent.