How to Behave and How to Amuse: A Handy Manual of Etiquette and Parlor Games. George H. Sandison

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664590985

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       HOW TO BEHAVE.

       Introductions.

       Bowing and Salutations.

       Calls and Calling Cards.

       Style of Cards.

       Cards for Ladies.

       Men’s Dress.

       A Young Lady’s Début.

       Dinner Parties.

       How to Set the Dinner Table.

       The Wine Question.

       Notes for Diners.

       Breakfasts, Luncheons, Teas and Suppers.

       Luncheons.

       The Kettle-Drum.

       “ High Teas. ”

       Dancing.

       Wedding Etiquette.

       Church Weddings.

       Wedding Breakfasts.

       Home Weddings and Private Weddings.

       Wedding Gifts and Other Gifts.

       Wedding Anniversaries.

       Notes About Weddings.

       New Year’s Day Calls.

       Christenings and Birthdays.

       Mourning Etiquette.

       The Etiquette of Correspondence.

       Behavior in Church.

       VARIOUS POINTS ON DEPORTMENT.

       Polite Terms of Address.

       Faulty Social Training.

       Tactful Hostesses.

       A Young Girl’s Social Life.

       Innocent and Sinful Pleasures.

       Treatment of Servants.

       Management of the Hands.

       Posing for Effect.

       Winking and Dozing in Public.

       Beautifying the Hands.

       Causes of Deformed Feet.

       Care of the Teeth.

       Awkwardness in Sitting.

       About Blushing.

       STRAY HINTS.

       Enjoy the Present Hour.

       Make Home Attractive.

       A Sunny Temper.

       Value of Female Society to Man.

       Home Maxims.

       True Politeness.

       Mock Modesty.

       The