BOWIKG IN TUE STBEETS.

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strangers to tlie individual) to bare tlieir licad to tlieir friend'sfriend. Hence, if }^ou chance to form one of three or fourin a promenade, your hat has to be removed from your headjust that number of times more tban it would be if you werestrolling alone.

Moreover, the German salute is really a work of nomcan labour; for when \ve said above tliat the head mustbe bared to all acquaintances passed in the street, we usedthe phrase advisedly, since a Prussian would hardly givea "danke" for a slight elevation of the hat—the approvedsign of respect, as indicated by the beaver, being not onlyto remove it bodily from the head, but to describe a semi-circle with it at arm's length, and so bring it almost to theground. This, as may be readily expected, is sad trying workto the brim, and we have known many a " gibus " give wayin that part to even a small circle of acquaintances after amonth's wear.

Nor is it only your acquaintances who demand this bare-headed reverence : politeness says, that you must uncoveryourself not only to those you really respect, but also to"your butcher, your baker, your candlestick-maker," forwhom, perhaps, owing to tlieir scoundrelly adulterations andcommercial meannesses, you have a hearty contempt.

In polite Paris you raise your hat, of course, to " ladame du comptoir" who sits in an arbour of "desserts" oreise in a grotto crystalline with innumerable " portions" oflump-sngar, either at the restaurant or the cafe you frequent.You bow also to the pretty cigar-girl where you buy yourpacket of " corporal" You raise your hat, too, on enteringthe omnibus that is to carry you by " correspondance v even

to the very gates of ------------, the "Barriere d'Enfer"

we mcan.

In Coblenz von might, in defercnce to the national custom,