LEAGUE OF POLITENESS.

Mt Benger Mail, 4 March 1914, Page 3

LEAGUE OF POLITENESS.

A League of Politeness, for the purpose of cultivating the externals of courtesy, is being created in New York. There will be branches throughout the States, the underlying idea being to round off the rough edges »f sen-ant* and tram conductors and other classes whose sterling hearts are oft veiled under bearish exteriors. The new league does not seek to make waiters, attendants in subway trams, and policemen servile, but to encourage them to speech and actions in their relations with the public more consistent with the standards of good breeding. Members of the league will wear a badge, and are expected to show a good example in everything relating to acts of public and private courtesy. A special object of the league will be to discourage the practice of spitting on the pavement and of gum chewing, the latter a vice which tends rather to increase than to decrease, especially among shop girls and typists. According to the principles or the League of Politeness it is just as bad manners for men to chew gum and distort their faces in the two-penny tube of NewYork as for a lady to smoke cigarette* in a tram car.