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POLITENESS IN SWEDEN

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 49.

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POLITENESS IN SWEDEN.

By Anon.

When a train leaves a platform or a steamboat pier, all the lookers on lift their hats to the departing passengers and bow to them, a compliment returned by the passengers. If you address the poorest person in the streets you must lift your hat. A gentleman passing a lady on the stairs of a hotel must do the same. To enter a shop or a bank with one’s hat on is a terrible breach of good manners. If you enter or leave a coffee-room you must bow to all the occupants.—Anon.