Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1882 — A Question of Etiquette. [ARTICLE]
A Question of Etiquette.
(.Chicago Tribune.] In a French journal: “When a lady receives a visit from a gentleman, ought she to rise or remain seated when the visitor enters and when he takes his leave?” If the lady lives in Washington, says an American paper, she will rise without regard to Parisian etiquette and accompany him as far as the hall, to see that he does not carry off a ten-dollar ivory handled umbrella in place of the dollar-and-a-half cotton one usually oarriedbTTi«thm#t»tess>es,
