An Act Of Courtesy

According to a well denned rule of etiquette, it is a lady's place to bow first to a gentleman who has been presented to her. But many ladies wait for the first deinonstration to come from the opposite sex. " I can't take the iaitialive, and bow to a comparativo strange gentleman," says Miss Precisión. "How embarrassed I should be if he failed to recognize me !" If any number of women feel thus, the point of etiquette should be changed in order to save their sensibilities. In truth, however, the objection is not weH made. There is not the smailest danger that any man, presuming him, of necessity, to be a geutleman, at least in respect to his observing the ordinary forms of courtesy, would vofiioa rtv íiasitn.+ in rñtnrn fche knowledgment of a woman, even though he niight not have the remotest recollection of ever having seen her before, or though he were convinoed she had confounded him with somebody else. And the f act that he had been recognized by a woman would be the strongeet presumptive evidencethat he had been presen ted to her. The truth is, women are so accustomed to men paying court to them, that they. cannot reooncile themselyes to niaking the flrst advances in anything - not even in overy-day courtesy.