ETIQUETTE

is derived from the Old French estiquette, ‘a label’, another and closer English derivative being ‘ticket.’ The French word comes finally from the Teutonic stricken, ‘to post up or affix.’ The estiquette seoms to have been a kind of card of introduction, a meaning which offers some explanation of its later sense. The behavior dictated by good breeding, the formal ceremonies prescribed by authority as appropriate to various social, court, and other official functions, and especially the observance of the rules of precedence, and to the other proprieties of rank and office, are all part of E., which may briefly be described as ‘conventional decorum.’ The eccentricities of E. are often ridiculed under the burlesque title of Mrs. Grundy. Sicily; height, ¢. 10,760 ft.; summit generally under snow; central districts wooded; soil at base fertile, producing fruits and vegetables; observatory situated about 1000 ft. below summit; last eruption, 1910.