WOMAN WRITER’S VIEWS ON MANNERS

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26020, 25 January 1950, Page 2

WOMAN WRITER’S VIEWS ON MANNERS

Manners go far beyond the use of the right knife and fork. Someone once described good manners as nothing more involved than simple decent consideration of the rights of the other fellow, writes Sarah Langton in the “Sunday Graphic.” Common errors in everyday behaviour, as the writer sees them, are: Elderly experts, who know that their method is the right one because they have been doing it that way for 30 years or who refuse to listen to your opinion because “you may change your mind when you are older.” Public lovers, who indulge in an unrestricted display of their emotions in front of other people, and who sefem to become particularly afflicted at the sight of sofas, armchairs qr friends’ drawing-rooms. Universal squabblers, who expose the fragments of their private lives in public, and who embarrass their friends and relatives by endeavouring to make them take sides in husband-and-wife quarrels. Restaurant decorators, who set out their paint, powder, lipstick—and even mascara—on the table, and set about doing a repair and repaint job which requires the privacy of the bathroom or boudoir.