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On the Street
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Rules About Bowing and Lifting the Hat—When One Should Bow to Strangers—When One Should Offer One's Arm to a Lady—Getting On and Off a Street Car—"Dos" and Don'ts" Governing Conduct Inside the Car.

After breakfast a family scatters to school, business offices, to work, etc., and on various errands. Everyone is on the street at some hour of the day, so there is a special code of manners for the street, public conveyances and public places. The principle of street manners may be summed up in a sentence: Look pleasant, keep to the right to avoid collision, be self-possessed, go along briskly, mind your own affairs and do nothing to attract attention.

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ETIQUETTE OF THE BOW AND THE LIFTED HAT
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Recognize acquaintances with a bow. If near enough a pleasant greeting may be exchanged. A lady bows first to a gentleman. A gentleman bows, touches his hat or gives a military salute to his men friends, but he lifts his hat to women. He bows to his mother, wife or sister, in meeting or parting from them, as ceremoniously as if they were strangers. Two ladies who meet step to the inner edge of the walk, near the building, if they wish to talk so as not to be in other people's way. If a gentleman wishes to talk with a lady, it is better to turn and walk in her direction. And when he is walking with a lady, a gentleman lifts his hat to anyone she recognizes whether known to him or not. The lady, however, does not recognize his friends. A man lifts his hat in passing strange women in hotel parlors, halls, on stairways and in public elevators. It is not necessary to keep his hat off during a trip in an elevator. He may catch cold if he does and politeness never obliges anyone to do anything dangerous to himself, unless to protect the weak and helpless. Remember a bow is a social civility, the smallest coin of society. It does not mean a calling acquaintance