5) Hold a door open for a girl or an older person to precede you in passing through; then glance over your shoulder to prevent the door from swinging back into the face of any person who may be following.

6) In order to appear to the best advantage, keep your hands out of your pockets.

7) Try not to jostle one another.  If by chance you do, say, “Pardon me.”

8) Observe, boys, that well-bred men rise when addressed by a woman who is standing.

9) Avoid whistling in the school building, and even in a private home, for your whistling may be annoying to some who cannot help hearing it.

10) Never, never, be so disgusting as to spit on the floor, on the stairs, or into the waste-paper box; use your handkerchief.

11) Care for your finger-nails, your face, your hair, in your room at home, not before mirrors on your locker doors, or in any other public place.  After making your toilet as well as you can, forget it.

12) Boys, it is not necessary to help the girls mount the stairs in school unless they are blind or crippled.

13) Girls, it is better not to twine your arms about one another in the corridors and on the stairs; also, not to kiss one another tenderly if you separate for a few moments.  Love your friends dearly; but be sensible, not sentimental.

14) Boys, observe that the moment a woman or a girl enters a passenger elevator, gentlemen there remove their hats,—­unless conditions prevent.

CLASSROOM

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old:  Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

    —­Pope.

1) When you enter your classroom, as well as when you leave it, glance towards your teacher and, if she is looking, bow pleasantly.

2) Say, “Yes, Miss Brown”; not merely “Yes,” if you know the name of the one addressed.  If you do not know her name, let your tone and manner indicate so fully your feeling of respect that the omission of the name will not be noted.  Say “Yes, Sir,” to men.  And remember,—­

    Hearts, like doors, will ope with ease
    To very, very little keys;
    And don’t forget that two of these
    Are:  “Thank you, sir,” and “If you please.”

3) When sitting, push back as far as you can in the chair and lean forward from your hips, keeping your spine straight, not curved.  The way you sit or walk or stand shows culture or lack of it.

4) When reciting, stand erect with your hands at your sides.  Your attitude will invite favorable attention if you stand with one foot slightly in advance of the other, and the weight of the body on the forward foot.

5) Speak so distinctly that everyone in the room must hear you; otherwise, not everyone will get your thought.

6) Avoid raising your hand when you wish to ask or to answer a question.  Instead, rise quietly, face your teacher, and wait for her to recognize you as though you were at a club meeting.