Picking On Eisenhower

Northern Advocate, 5 June 1948, Page 5

Picking On Eisenhower

When you are walking in the street with a woman do you invariably take the outside of the pavement? I see (says an English writer) that General Eisenhower has been taken to task in America for walking on the inside of the pavement when out with Mrs Eisenhower. -

But tiie general need not fear, for according to that hot gospeller of etiquette, Emily Post, the days when a man always had to walk on the outside near the kerb for fear of runaway horses (though she says nothing of the danger of splashed nylons) are gone. Today the matter is much more complicated. Position of honour, it seems, is the right-hand side. So Emily Post lays it down that “it is senseless for a man to keep circling back every time they cross a street.’’

Hence modern rules of behaviour approve of a man’s walking on eithsc side of the pavement but not on the woman’s right and away from the kerb at the same time.

General Eisenhower was on the inside of the pavement, but on his wife’s left, so he is exonerated.