HATS OFF IN THE LIFT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21315, 17 October 1932, Page 12

HATS OFF IN THE LIFT

Sir, —If the Herald saw-fit to 'take a' ; vote of its city subscribers, both men and women, re the .etiquette of above, ! feel certain an overwhelming .majority would be against "adopting this absurd 1 American custom: if it is an %J custom. The American's attitude his own women folk is in general commended, but he is just a "leetle bit I ,* |fg inclined to get in for Sir Walter Raleigh * stunts when meeting ladies out of.doors'. k Only the other day I witnessed in a book- >- seller's shop' the visible embarrassment-of the young woman behind the counter when a customer, an American, touched |§t his hat to her, when making inquiry fof - ; some book. To my mid-Victorian mind tK« ' action savoured of "taking a liberty.-'J. The admirable rejoinder of "Hatless" my unqualified assent. There is an apprc£ r< priatc time and place for everything. JL lift, or indeed, any other typ_e of coir-I§| veyance, whether in the air, on land, or on water, is 9.0t a proper place to show ■_ 4 the respect due to women from men* I'ijf have all an old celibate sailor's chivalrous ft regard for all good women. The future : of bur civilisation lies in their hands; ||p "The hand that rocks the cradle ,is the hand that rules the world." . J® Alexander' Fka&eiu. «