Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — Always Keep to the Right. [ARTICLE]

Always Keep to the Right.

The polite dodging that sometimes occurs between passers in a narrow passage was happily solved once by a tall, ungraceful, bulky Vermonter, who extricated both from the position by saying: “If you will stand still, madam, I will go home.” Joseph Ritchie, of Roxbury, used to tell an experience of his in the days when ladies’ gowns trailed on sidewalks and in street cars, and their tempers flashed out if anybody trod upon them. Looking straight at the flushed cheeks and wrinkled forehead, “I excuse you, ma’am,” said Mr. Ritchie, with old-school politeness. —Boston Transcript.