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Title: Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Cooke, Maud C
Subjects: Etiquette
Publisher: Philadelphia : National Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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est. In making gifts let them be in proportion to your means. A richman does not thank a poor man for making him a present which heknows the giver cannot afford. Do not claim the acquaintance of a man of rank on the groundthat you once met him at a house to which you had been invited. Let it be said of you as it was said of Macaulay, that he remem-bered everything, except an injury. In making calls, do your best to lighten the infliction to yourhostess. Do not stay long; and do not enter upon a subject of con-versation which may terrify her with the apprehension that you intendto remain until you have exhausted it. Do not give another, even if it be a better, version of a storyalready told by one of your companions. The touchstone of good manners is the way in which a man behavesto his superiors or inferiors. It is not proper for a gentleman to call upon a lady unless he hasfirst received permission to do so. It is not proper for a gentleman to wear his overshoes in the draw-ing-room.
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370 GENERAL ETIQUETTE. Children or young people should never monopolize the most desir-able positions and most comfortable chairs. No gentleman will smoke while walking, riding or driving with alady, or while speaking to her in the street. Sometimes, at informalsummer resorts, there is a little latitude allowed here. If a dinner party is given in honor of a lady, it is the hosts place togo in to dinner first, taking in the lady in whose honor the dinner isgiven. Furthermore, it is proper, under some circumstances, for the(hostess to go in to dinner last with the husband of the lady whom thehost is escorting. It is proper to help all the ladies, including those of the household,before any gentleman is helped, no matter how distinguished a personhe may be. First Attentions for Ladies. When the visitors are gentlemen, and only a mother and daughterare at the table, the maid ought first to serve the mother, then thtdaughter and last the gentlemen. If the mother serves tea at luncheonshe h

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