Miss Manners does recognize that physical danger trumps the ordinary routines of etiquette. She grants that someone drowning may properly shout “Help!” instead of “Please help, if it isn't too much ...

You sneeze and someone replies, “God bless you,” or “Gesundheit!” You pull out a Kleenex to contain the sneeze. But, before the arrival of the Kleenex in the 1920s, there was the cloth “handkerchief” ...

From utilitarian rag to status symbol, the handkerchief has had a long and rather significant history. That history was the subject of the Onalaska Area Historical Society’s March 20 program. Donna ...

"Don't put a cold in your pocket" is a slogan used by manufacturers of disposable tissues and designed to sell the public on the idea of substituting their product for the traditional handkerchief.