FEMININE TRAITS.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 18 September 1912, Page 3

FEMININE TRAITS.

A woman walking on a city footway will generally choose the. inside. She does- so partly in order to look at the shop windows, but chiefly on account of the slope of the pavement, which is less 'on the inside. In trams and omnibuses women mostly sit near the door. At the fa* end you will, as a rule, see a majority of men. When men read while travelling they nearly always read newspapers, but in the hands of the reading girl you will, with rare exceptions, see a book. When a woman is crossing a -street with much traffic she runs, in nine cases out of ten, and the older she is she is the more inclined to run. But the man walks very deliberately. A woman holds a closed umbrella by the middle, and usually clasps it to her body. No ono. ever saw a man carrying it in this way. A woman usually raises a cup or a glass or a fork to her lips correctly—that is, with her elbow close to her body. Most men stick their elbows out, against all rules of etiquette. In lighting a' match: i a woman mostly rubs it in a direction away from.'her; a . man to- , wards his body. '%