It is only those persons and families whose position is not a secure one, that are afraid to be seen outside their own social circle.
One should never reprove servants or children before strangers.
A true lady will not betray her astonishment at any violation of conventional rules, least of all will she make it her province to punish those who may make any such violation.
If one, on meeting another, fails to recall the name, he should frankly say so.
One should never recall himself to the recollection of a casual acquaintance without at the same time mentioning his name.
In a flat-house a man should take his hat and coat into the apartment where he is going to call, and not leave them in the hall on the first floor.
It is very bad taste, even in quite a large party, for young girls to visit a man at his office.
It is perfectly good form for a mother to invite to a little child’s party children whose parents she does not know, or who have not yet called upon her. The invitations go out in the child’s name and to the child’s friends.
It is extremely rude and ill-bred, when at a boarding-house or hotel table, to criticise the food that is served. The fact that it is paid for makes it none the less an evidence of bad manners. People who are not satisfied where they are boarding should always leave; they have no right to make others uncomfortable by their lack of good-breeding.
Women of good-breeding do not permit themselves to “overlook” those to whom courtesies are due.