Social Etiquette: Or, Manners and Customs of Polite Society |
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acquaintance afternoon tea Algernon Smith ARTHUR HOLT attention bad breeding ball Bavarian Cream beautiful blue breakfast bride bridemaids cake cards celery chaperon Charlotte Russe church coffee color conversation costume course courtesy cream croquettes custom dainty dancing DEAR decorations desired dinner dishes dress engraved entertainment envelope etiquette eyes fashion favor flowers fork formal friends garden party gentleman girl give given gloves godparents gown grace guests hair hand honor host hostess hour introduce invitation leave letter luncheon manner marriage Miss morning dress napkin never o'clock occasion oysters party person plate present pretty receive reception request the pleasure rule salad seat sent servant served side silk simply social sometimes street style supper Table Etiquette taste toilet unless usually visiting visiting card walk Watseka wear wedding woman women words worn young lady
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Page 107 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Page 299 - It is the unique faculty of not only perceiving "sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and good in everything...
Page 320 - Monday's child is fair of face/ Tuesday's child is full of grace/ Wednesday's child is full of woe/ Thursday's child has far to go...
Page 26 - ... respectability of the other. Never undertake this responsibility without in the first place asking yourself whether the persons are likely to be agreeable to each other; nor, in the second place, without ascertaining whether it will be acceptable to both parties to become acquainted. Always introduce the gentleman to the lady — never the lady to the gentleman. The chivalry of etiquette assumes that the lady is invariably the superior in right of her sex, and that the gentleman is honoured in...
Page 22 - A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
Page 335 - Etiquette of the Street. When you are passing in the street, and see coming toward you a person of your acquaintance, whether a lady or an elderly person, you should offer them the wall — that is to say, the side next the houses. If a carriage should happen to stop in such a manner as to...
Page 37 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company ; this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.
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Page 22 - ... 4. Remember that, valuable as is the gift of speech, silence is often more valuable. 5. Do not expect too much from others, but forbear and forgive, as you desire forbearance and forgiveness yourself. 6. Never retort a sharp or angry word. It is the second word that makes the quarrel. 7. Beware of the first disagreement. 8. Learn to speak in a gentle tone of voice. 9. Learn to say kind and pleasant things whenever opportunity offers.
Page 20 - I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.