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Title: Our society
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Ives, Alice Emma Beecher, Henry Ward, Mrs., 1813-1897 Williams, Cora May. (from old catalog) Foley, John Samuel, Bishop, 1833- (from old catalog) Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth, 1846-1918
Subjects: Etiquette Physical education and training
Publisher: Detroit, Mich., Darling brothers & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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PON the public promenadeones manners arejudged by strangers,who cannot be expectedto mingle with their ver-dicts the charity or gener-ity of a friend, or to regardother than scrutinizingly and crit-ically, the person who in any wayattracts their notice. It is therefore ofthe utmost importance that one should look tohis behavior under such circumstances. The True Lady. — The true lady never intentionallyattracts undue attention to herself by any extreme pecul-iarity of dress, manner or gait. She does not wear, on amarketing or shopping excursion, a dress suitable only for adinner party; she does not talk across the street, or to any onein an upper window — unless, indeed, it be a very quiet, retiredspot, and the occasion an unusual one; she affects none of theungraceful, idiotic gaits, such as some unknown authorityoccasionally pronounces fashionable, and which, when shehas distorted her walk into a kangaroo hop or a masculine 58

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