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| View Larger Image | Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises | Kindle Edition
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Contents: I. THE ETIQUETTE OF COURTSHIP A Few Words about Love--Curious Incident in a Yellow Taxicab--A Silly Girl--Correct Introductions and how to Make Them--A Well Known Congressman's Ludicrous Mistake in a Turkish Bath--Cards and Flowers--Flowers and their Message in Courtship--"A Clean Tooth Never Decays"--Receiving an Invitation to Call--The Etiquette of Telephoning-A Telephone Girl's Horrible End--Making the First Call--Conversation and Some of its Uses--A Proper Call--The Proposal Proper-The Proposal Improper. II. THE ETIQUETTE OF ENGAGEMENTS AND WEDDINGS The Historic Aspect--Announcing the Engagement--A Breton Fisher Girl's Experience with a Traveling Salesman--The Bride-to-Be--The Engagement Luncheon--Selecting the Bridal Party--Invitations and Wedding Presents--A Good Joke on the Groom--"Madam, those are my trousers"--Duties of the Best Man--A Demented Taxidermist's Strange Gift -- The Bride's Tea--The Maid of Honor--What Aunt Edna Saw on the Club Porch-The Bachelor Dinner and After-Some Practical Uses for Bi-Carbonate of Soda--The Rehearsal --The Bridal Dinner--A Church Wedding. III. THE ETIQUETTE OF TRAVEL Hints for the Correct Pedestrianism--Description of a Walk around Philadelphia with a Pueblo Indian in 1837--Travelling by Rail-- Good Form on a Street Car--In the Subway--Fun with an Old Gentleman's Whiskers--A Honeymoon in a Subway--Travelling under Steam-A Correct Night in a Pullman-What Burton Holmes Found in His Lower Berth. IV. AT THE CONCERT AND THE OPERA Listening to a Symphony Orchestra--Curious Effect of Debussy's "Apres-midi d'un Faune" and four gin fizzes on Uncle Frederick--"No, fool like an old fool"--Correct Behavior at a Piano Recital--Choosing One's Nearest Exit--In a Box at the Opera--What a Kansas City Society Leader Did with Her Old Victrola Records. V. ETIQUETTE FOR DRY AGENTS Some Broader Aspects of Prohibition--Interesting Effect of Whisky on Goldfish--The College Graduate as Dry Agent--Aunt Emily's Amusing Experiences with a Quart of Gin Planning a Dry Raid on a Masquerade Ball A Word About Correct Costumes--A California Motion Picture Actress's Bad Taste VI. A CHAPTER FOR SCHOOLGIRLS Selecting a Proper School--Account of an Interesting Trip Down the Eric Canal with Miss Spence--Correct Equipment for the Schoolgirl --En Route--ln New York--A journey Around the City--The First Days in the New School--"After Lights" in a Dormitory--An "Old Schoolgirl's" Confessions--Becoming Acclimatized--A Visitor from Princeton-Strange Pets. VI. THE ETIQUETTE OF GAMES AND SPORTS Golf as a Pastime--What Henry Ward Beecher Said When He Broke His Niblic--An Afternoon at the Old Farm with the Dice--"Shoot you for your ear trumpet, grandfather!"--Correct Behavior on a Picnic--A Swedish Nobleman's Curious Method of Eating Potato Chips--Boxing in American Society--A Good Joke on an Amateur Boxer--"He didn't know it was Jack Dempsey!"--Bridge Whist--Formal and Informal Drinking--A jolly Hallowe'en Party -- Invitations -- Receiving the Guests--How to Mystify--Games. VIII. CORRESPONDENCE AND INVITATIONS Correspondence for Young Ladies--College Boys How to Order a Full Dress Suit by Mail --Letters to Parents--A Prominent Retired Bank President's Advice to Correspondents--Letters from Parents--Peculiarities of the Divorce Laws of New York--Letters to Prospective Fathers-in-Law--Love Letters--Correspondence of Public Officials---Letters to Strangers--Letters to Newspapers, Magazines, etc.--Invitations, Acceptances and Regrets. IX. THE ETIQUETTE OF DINNERS AND BALLS Formal Dinners in America-Table Manners for Children--Removing Stains from Gray Silk--A Child's Garden of Etiquette--Etiquette in the School--Conversation at Dinner--What a New Jersey Lady Did with Her Olive Seeds --Stewart's Lightning Calculator of Dinner Table Conversation--"It Seems that Pat and Mike"--Balls and Dances---Artificial Respiration--Mixed Dancing--Hints for Stags |
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