Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-06-15
LET MEN REMEMBER
MANNERS THAT WILL MAKE
THEM APPEAR At EASE.

MRNNEfS that WILL MAKE
THEM APPEAR AT EASE.
How to Greet the Hostess and Oebutante-.
Keep Your Hands Out of Your Trousers
Pockets.
Just at the moment at those recep-
tlOns held in honor of debutante girls,
the greatest number of fashionably
dressed men can be found gathered to-
gether, says Al writer in the Kansas
City Star. The frock coat toilet is
then to be seen in its highest glory,
but If present indications are signifi-
cant Of the future, then the proper
combination for the season is to be
black coat and trousers with white
pique, tan or grayish plaid waistcoat.
Taking the afternoon toilet in detail
and from the ground up, shoes wholly
OF patent leather are held in first es-
TEEN. Those with vamps of vanished
leather and tops of dull finished don.
COLA are of secondary consideration,
but whether wholly or in part of the
glazed skin they all show round Eng
lish toes and are laced.
Afternoon trousers, let it be known
by the ambitious, never show their
hens up-turned, but falling gracefully
upon the brightly lacquered shoe, and
some black trousers have been seen
showing black herring bone stripe
woven through the even mesh of the
goods and conveying the contrast ef-
feet Of the gray trouser without really
varying the tone at all. Last season
the model frock coats fell just one
inch or threequaIters in the skirt be-
low the knee. This winter they are
but shade longer, their rather broad
lapels are faced with black silk and
the mOdish man in drawing room
where he will be expected to stand
and talk to womenkind, keeps his
frock buttoned close.
Few men indeed have yet acquired
the art of arriving in an amply full
drawing room on reception after
noon with an air OF graceful compos-
ure that clearly signifies their habitu-
al intercourse with fashionable society.
Too many OF the sterner sex appear
with less ease than lion tanner enters
a wild beasts cage, while those who
assume an air of bland composure
thrust the left hand into the the trou-
ser pocket and stand before the hos
tess with the pseudo Chesterfieldian
swagger of third rate transforming
actor in drawing room scene.
A graduate from the very up.to date
school of fashionable department
leaves his hat, stick and coat in the
hallway, draws off his gray right hand
glove, and holding it in his left ap.
peas snugly buttoned as to coat before
his hostess. If her hand is extended
he presses it gently in his own, bear
ing in mind as he does so that she
wears rings and that stern gripping
of her fingers will give her intensest
pain. He keeps her fingers in his
clasp, while bystander could count
four slowly, holding them at the level
exactly at which she gave them and
bowling gracefully as he does so. If
the debutante at her side is too occu-
pied with her bouquets to offer her
hand he bows in recognition OF her
salutation; bow that is not mere
shrug nor an ugly lurching forward
and elongation of the neck, but an
obeisance that savors in its dignity
and precision of the German officers
bow. The body is inclined gracefully
from the hips, the head bent in har-
mony and the hands dropped easily at
the sides. An extremely stately salu-
tation is made when a friend is recog-
nized across the room. When femi-
nine friend puts out her delicately
gloved fingers the firm masculine
pressure must never be accompanied
by a shake.
The man who stands in private
drawing room talking to women
should forego the obnoxious habit of
putting his hands in his pockets or
standing with his arms folded. Nei-
ther attitude is graceful nor compli-
mentary. With his hands behind his
back or before him and holding the
ends of his gloves his best and most
dignified attitude is maintained and
after passing into the dining room he
may appropriately open his coat to re-
veal the splendors of his Immediately
white waistcoat and his fob.
uoV. hoSerS has piaceu Ills caii'
paign in the hands OF Mr.. Little, who
is Fish Commissioner, when not in
politics, or one day in the week, and
that day Sunday. Down here in
Chehalis county, where we know Mr..
Little, we acknowledge him to be q
pretty smooth politician. But he is
up against the real thing this time,
for Gov. Rogers cannot be renominated,
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