The Etiquette of To-day. Edith B. Ordway

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066162368

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       THE ETIQUETTE OF TO-DAY

       CHAPTER I

       THE REWARDS OF ETIQUETTE

       CHAPTER II

       PERSONALITY

       CHAPTER III

       FAMILY ETIQUETTE

       CHAPTER IV

       CONVERSATION AND CORRESPONDENCE

       CHAPTER V

       CASUAL MEETINGS AND CALLS

       CHAPTER VI

       The Personal Card and the Engraved Invitation

       CHAPTER VII

       BEHAVIOR IN PUBLIC

       CHAPTER VIII

       THE ART OF BEING A GUEST

       CHAPTER IX

       THE DUTIES OF HOST AND HOSTESS

       CHAPTER X

       DUTIES OF THE CHAPERON

       CHAPTER XI

       THE ETIQUETTE OF THE MARRIAGE ENGAGEMENT

       CHAPTER XII

       THE CONDUCT OF A WEDDING

       CHAPTER XIII

       ETIQUETTE FOR CHILDREN

       CHAPTER XIV

       ETIQUETTE OF MOURNING

       CHAPTER XV

       MILITARY, NAVAL, AND FLAG ETIQUETTE

       THE END

       INDEX

PREFACE

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      The customs of social life need frequent restating and adaptation to new needs. They are customs because they are the best rules of conduct that have been garnered from the experiences of succeeding generations under common conditions.

      To know them, to catch their spirit, and to follow them in an intelligent way, without slavish punctiliousness but with careful observance, make one skillful in the art of social intercourse, and at home in any society.

      Etiquette will not take the place of character, nor of an accurate knowledge of human nature and the arts of practical life. Given these, however, it will unlock to any man or woman doors of success and profit and real happiness which, without it, would have remained forever closed.

      E. B. O.

      "We feel 'at home' wherever we know how to conduct ourselves."

      T. L. Nichols

      "The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion. All his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there finds in every turn of the conversation equally lucky occasions for the introduction of that which he has to say. The favorites of society, and what it calls whole souls, are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egoism, but who exactly fill the hour and the company, contented and contenting, at a marriage or a funeral, a ball or a jury, a water party or a shooting match."

       Emerson.

THE ETIQUETTE OF

       TO-DAY

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CHAPTER I

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THE REWARDS OF ETIQUETTE

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      Society is a game which all men play. "Etiquette" is the name given the rules of the game. If you play it well, you win. If you play it ill, you lose. The prize is a certain sort of happiness without which