Good pub advice.
We need to bring this back.
It’s really worrisome when the fucking Victorians understood something like this better than half the modern population tbh
All those dude bros claiming to be ‘’’chivalrous'’‘ need to read this and tattoo it on their foreheads so they stop forgetting it
So I did a google search to be sure this was legit and it is, from “American Etiquette and Rules of Politeness” by Walter Raleigh Houghton.
So that’s pretty cool.
It follows that up with “The proper course is to treat her with respect, but withdraw as much as possible from the circles in which she moves, so as not to cause her painful reminisces.”
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