Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1887 — ETIQUETTE. [ARTICLE]

ETIQUETTE.

Small Social Forms. ' r (' It has been often said that the host Bingle rule of etiquette is to do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But this rule is hardly complete enough for the guidance of a young man who first goes into what is called society. There are many details which it is essential one should learn. These often differ in different places. For instance, in America it is customary for a lady to speak to a gentleman acquaintance first on the street. On the continent of Europe the rule is reversed. Travel familiarizes one with the different interpretations of etiquette in different countries, and shows one that after all there are no fixed rules for all places. They are, in every place, but trifling! barriers to protect people from boors or bores, and are of no intrinsic importance. The most delightful society is that in which the members are so well versed in rules of etiquette that they can readily discover when to use and when to dispense with them.

Is an Introduction Required? “I am invited to an entertainment. I never meet any one in the house, or I know the daughter but not the host and hostess. What shall I do about Bpeaking to them ? Shall I get some one to present me?” This is a question which often puzzles those who do not stop to think. An invitation to a house gives one an acquaintance with all the family under its roof. There is no necessity for an introduction. On entering the drawingroom it is proper to step to where the host and hostess are receiving. It is also proper to speak to any of the family, and before departure leave should also be taken of those who are at home. Deal Gently. Consideration for the feelings of others should be carried into every department of life. Errors and oversights ought never to be dealt with severely unless they become habitual. We are all liable to make them, and, when we do, wish to be treated lenientl. There is a story of a bank president who threatened to discharge a clerk if he did not find a missing paper. The clerk was in despair. He hunted everywhere without success. At last seeing the President’s overcoat hanging where he could examine it without detection, he explored the pockets and found the papdf. When we abuse others for errors let us be sure we never make one ourselves. • TV Points and Pointers. It is bad manners to dip bread in tea or coffee at table. Never do it unless when alone in a sick room. It is not proper to tilt a soup plate or use a teaspoon to gather up the last ' drops. It would be very inelegant. In introducing a lady and gentleman always introduce the gentleman to the lady. Say “Mrs. Jones, allow me to present Mr. Jenkins,” or simply,“‘Mrs. Jones, Mr. Jenkins.” The fashionable cards for ladies are now nearly square, though these have not superseded the longer cards lately used, as many ladies prefer the latter. The name is printed upon them in script.

More Valuable than Learning. Backwoods School Teacher (to boy) —“My gracious, you have been two hours on this lesson, and don’t know it yet. What’s the matter with you 7” Boy (yawning)—“l’m er sleepy.” Teacher—“ Why didn’t you sleep last night?” “Boy —“Had ter chop down er coon tree. Dogs treed ’fo bedtime, an’ it tuck us mighty nigh all night ter chop down the tree.” Teacher—“ Why didn’t your father make you go to bed ?” Boy —“Who, pap? W’y, lie’s the one what made me chop down the tree.” Teacher—“ You don’t tell me so?” Boy —“Yas, I do, ur yer wouldn’t know nothin’ erbout it.” Teacher—“ You don’t mean to say that your father would rather you would catch a coon than to learn something ?” Boy—“ That’s dad all over. They buys coon skins in town, but I ain’t seed nobody er hurtin’ air ter buym’ I’arnin’ thar yit. Dad lowed that he'd git er pint uv licker with that air skin, an’ I’ll bet he do. Licker’s licker with pap. ” Teacher—“l am astonished at your mother.” Boy —“So is pap. ’Lows that he never did see er ’oman that could chaw ez much Hat terbacker e? she ken. Wall, I hear ther dogs er barkin’, an’ I reckon they’ve treed ernother coon. Good day.” —Arkansaw Traveler.

It has been suggested that, in order to insure greater strength and consequently more safety in ropes used for scaffolding purposes, particularly in localities where the atmosphere is destructive of hemp fiber, such ropes should be dipped, when dry, into a bath containing twenty grains of sul : phate of copper per litre of water, and kept in soak in this solution some four days, afterward being dried; the ropes will thus have absorbed a certain quantity of sulphate of copper, which will preserve them for some time both from the attacks of animal parasites and from rot. The copper salt may be fixed in the fiber by a coating of tar or by soapy water, and in order to do this best it may be passed through a bath of boiled tar, hot, drawing it through a thimble to press back the excess of tar, and suspending it afterward on a staging to dry and harden. In a second method the rope is soaked in a solution of 100 grammes of soap per litre of water. The copper soap thus formed in the fiber of the rope is stated ntoqpys&erve it even better than tar is capable of doing, which acts mechanically to imprison the sulphate of copper, which is the real preservative in the case. - ( A New HAVESdnfant over two months old weighs only 2f pounds. She is well formed and healthy, and of fine vocal equipment. Her height is thirteen inches, her wrist seven-eighths of an inch in circumference, the back of her head measures one inch across, and her, foot is If inches long. The only kind of cake children don’t cry after—A cake of soap.