PREFACE
My book “Manners for Women” has met with such a kindly reception that I am encouraged to follow it up with the present little volume. Of a less practical character than the former, it yet follows out the same line of thought, and is the fruit of many years’ observation of my countrywomen in that home life for which England is distinguished among nations.
C. E. HUMPHRY.
London, 1898.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| Mother and Daughter | [9] | |
| Our School-Girls | [18] | |
| What about Sewing? | [25] | |
| Mothers and Sons | [32] | |
| Our Clever Children | [38] | |
| Ultra-Tidiness | [46] | |
| Good Manners at Home | [51] | |
| Are Women Cowards? | [57] | |
| A Glass of Wine | [64] | |
| Some Old Proverbs | [70] | |
| Candour as a Home Commodity | [76] | |
| Golden Silence | [81] | |
| A Social Conscience | [88] | |
| Our Debts | [94] | |
| The Domestic Girl | [102] | |
| The Girl-Bachelor | [108] | |
| The Middle-Aged Chaperon | [114] | |
| Lightheartedness | [117] | |
| A Bit of Everyday Philosophy | [122] | |
| Deadly Dulness | [129] | |
| The Pleasures of Middle Age | [136] | |
| Growing Old | [145] |