Our Deportment / Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society
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Forms for Letters, Invitations, Etc., Etc. Also, Valuable Suggestions on Home Culture and Training. COMPILED FROM THE LATEST RELIABLE AUTHORITIES,
REVISED AND ILLUSTRATED.
F. B. DICKERSON & CO., DETROIT, MICH. ST. LOUIS, MO.
1881.
COPYRIGHTED BY FREEMAN B. DICKERSON, 1879 and 1881.
O one subject is of more importance to people generally than a knowledge of the rules, usages and ceremonies of good society, which are commonly expressed by the word Etiquette. Its necessity is felt wherever men and women associate together, whether in the city, village, or country town, at home or abroad. To acquire a thorough knowledge of these matters, and to put that knowledge into practice with perfect ease and self-complacency, is what people call good breeding. To display an ignorance of them, is to subject the offender to the opprobrium of being ill-bred.
In the compilation of this work, the object has been to present the usages and rules which govern the most refined American society, and to impart that information which will enable any one, in whatever circumstances of life to acquire the perfect ease of a gentleman, or the gentle manners and graceful deportment of a well-bred lady, whose presence will be sought for, and who, by their graceful deportment will learn the art of being at home in any good society.
John H. Young
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OR THE
MANNERS, CONDUCT AND DRESS
OF THE MOST REFINED SOCIETY;
JOHN H. YOUNG, A.M.
Preface.
Contents.
CHAPTER I.
Introductory.
CHAPTER II.
Our Manners.
CHAPTER III.
Introductions.
CHAPTER IV.
Salutations.
CHAPTER V.
Etiquette of Calls.
CHAPTER VI.
Etiquette of Visiting.
CHAPTER VII.
Visiting and Calling Cards.
CHAPTER VIII.
Conversation.
CHAPTER IX.
Dinner Giving and Dining Out.
CHAPTER X.
Table Manners and Etiquette.
CHAPTER XI.
Receptions, Parties and Balls.
CHAPTER XII.
Etiquette of the Street.
CHAPTER XIII.
Etiquette of Public Places.
CHAPTER XIV.
Etiquette of Travelling.
CHAPTER XV.
RIDING AND DRIVING.
CHAPTER XVI.
Courtship and Marriage.
CHAPTER XVII.
Etiquette of Weddings.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Home Life and Etiquette.
CHAPTER XIX.
Home Training.
CHAPTER XX.
Home Culture.
CHAPTER XXI.
Woman's Higher Education.
CHAPTER XXII.
The Art of Letter Writing.
CHAPTER XXIII.
General Rules of Conduct.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Anniversary Weddings.
CHAPTER XXV.
Births and Christenings.
CHAPTER XXVI.
Funerals.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Washington Etiquette.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Foreign Titles.
CHAPTER XXIX.
Business.
CHAPTER XXX.
Dress.
CHAPTER XXXI.
Harmony of Colors in Dress.
CHAPTER XXXII.
The Toilet.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Toilet Recipes.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Sports, Games, Amusements.
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Language of Flowers.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Precious Stones.
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