HS DID NOT FORGET HIS MANNERS

New Zealand Tablet, 26 June 1913, Page 61

HS DID NOT FORGET HIS MANNERS

A lady was holding forth on the decadence of manners and courtesy from men to women. She ended by saying : ‘ The only time that I can remember during the last twenty years that a man has offered me his seat in a public conveyance was the other day, when I entered a tramcar capable of seating fifteen a side, and found it empty, except for a solitary man very drunk, who insisted on rising so that I could sit down, and continued to stand during the remainder of the journey, clinging to a strap.'