DEAR MISS MANNERS: I came of age in the early 1980s, and I have never heard of anyone in my generation, or the previous one, asking a lady’s father for permission to propose marriage.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When sitting in an airline seat, you need not ask permission of the person behind you to recline your seat.Once permission to move is granted by the captain, you can recline, if ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When sitting in an airline seat, you need not ask permission of the person behind you to recline your seat.Once permission to move is granted by the captain, you can recline, if ...

Dear Miss Manners: When sitting in an airline seat, you need not ask permission of the person behind you to recline your seat.Once permission to move is granted by the captain, you can recline, if ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When sitting in an airline seat, you need not ask permission of the person behind you to recline your seat. Once permission to move is granted by the captain, you can recline ...

This isn’t something I’ve ever worried about, or thought to ask at someone else’s house. Is it rude to flush without permission? I can’t imagine not flushing would be a good option for anyone.

The polite thing to do when visiting another’s home -- for the first time, or the 50th -- is to ask permission. Miss Manners is confident you can find a quiet moment to do so, if a top-off is ...

Miss Manners, written by Judith Martin and her two perfect children, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Marin, has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978. Send your ...

Dear Miss Manners: A group with whom I was hiking in Peru passed close to a woman and a boy working the land on a picturesque hillside. Each of my fellow tourists photographed them as they walked by.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When sitting in an airline seat, you need not ask permission of the person behind you to recline your seat.Once permission to move is granted by the captain, you can recline, if ...