ficient recognition, even though you may meet an acquaintance
several times.

A lady, receiving in her own home, shakes hands with the stranger with
the same cordiality as with the friend.

A gentleman when greeting a lady never takes the initiative in
hand-shaking. If a lady offers her hand, however, it would be very
rude indeed for a gentleman not to accept the courtesy.

Persons who have met at the house of a mutual friend, but have not
been introduced, are under no obligation to bow when they meet
elsewhere afterward, and usually do not.

When a man passes a lady on a staircase, in the corridor of a hotel,
in the elevator of a private apartment house, or in the public rooms
of a hotel, he lifts his hat although she may be a stranger.

This rule does not prevail on the staircases and in the corridors of
office buildings, with the exception, perhaps, of banks and such
offices as people of wealth frequent; for a new fineness of courtesy
has made men feel that, as women are winning an equality of position
in the business field, a delicate way of recognizing that equality is
by giving them a comradely deference rather than paying them the
social attentions. Another marked expression of this is in the fact
that a business man, when walking on the street with a business woman,
does not interrupt their conversation by changing sides with her in
order to keep constantly on the outside of the walk.

An indication of the two kinds of courtesy, social and business, is
often grotesquely shown when a woman in social life, perhaps the wife
of one of the men present, enters an office where there are both men
and women of equal business importance and social rank. There is an
elaborate social courtesy paid to the wife, who is in private life,
which would not be paid, and would seem grotesque and ill-mannered if
paid, to the business woman, even though she were at once the active
vice president of the corporation and wife of the president.

_Introductions_

The usual form of introduction is, "Mrs. Allen, may I present Mr.
Brown?" Or, "Mrs. Allen, let me present Mr. Brown." Or, "Mrs.
Caldwell, allow me to present Colonel Glazier." Where, however, the
permission need not be suggested, and the relative standing of the
people is the same, the form may be only, "Mrs. Gleason, Mr. Ansel."

When it is necessary to introduce one person to several, the form is,
"Mrs. Gladstone, I want you to meet Mrs. Falmouth, Miss Washburn, Mr.