The Complete Bachelor: Manners for Men

by Walter Germain

INDEX.

• Acceptance, invitations, [46-48].
• Admission to clubs, rules for, [127-129].
• Admission, visitors to clubs, [131, 132].
• Advice, general, for unclassified occasions, [195, 196].
• Afternoon calls, etiquette of, [43-45].
• Afternoon dress, when worn, [12, 13].
• Afternoon tea, [45].
• Afternoon wedding, [184, 185].
• Aisle, church and theater, going up, [5].
• Almonds, salted, [69].
• Alpine hats, [28].
• Amateur accomplishments, [199].
• Announcement cards, [176].
• Announcement, engagement, method of, [169].
• Answers, Assembly and Patriarchs, [48].
• Answers, ball invitations, [48].
• Answers, committee invitations, [48].
• Answers, dinner invitations, [48].
• Answers, form of, [46-48].
• Answers, general, [48].
• Artichokes, method of eating, [70].
• Asparagus, method of eating, [70].
• Assembly balls, etiquette of, [48], [105-110].

• Bachelor.—For all functions with this title, see various heads of chapters.
• Bachelor's farewell dinner, [181-184].
• Badminton, [148].
• Bag, shoe, [30].
• Bag, traveling, what to take on a visit from Friday to Monday, [91-93].
• Bag, traveling, voyage long, [160, 161].
• Ball, Assembly, [105-110].
• Ball, Charity, [103].
• Ball, general etiquette of, [48], [102-110].
• Ball, Inauguration, [104].
• Ball, public, [48], [103, 104].
• Ball, supper at, [110, 111].
• Bath, bachelor's, [17, 18].
• Bathing, [156].
• Bath, Turkish, [22].
• Beard, care of, [19].
• Best man, dress for, [184].
• Best man, etiquette for, [180-182], [184-187].
• Bicycling, [144, 145].
• Billiards, [157, 158].
• Boating, [156].
• Bolting food, [62].
• Boots, [12, 13], [28-30], [37].
• Boots, care of, [28-30].
• Boots, riding, [142].
• Boots, russet, [13], [42], [147], [155].
• Bowing, etiquette of, [2-6], 9.
• Bowling, [147].
• Bridegroom, [178-180].
• Bridegroom, dress of, [184].
• Bridegroom, expenses of, [177, 178].
• Bridegroom, presents to bride and wedding party, [179, 180].
• Brushes, [19-26], [28-31].
• Brushes, clothes, [25, 26], [28-31].
• Brushes, hair, [19], [22].
• Brushes, hat, [28].
• Brushes, nail, [22].
• Brushes, tooth, [20].
• Butler, duties of, [100].
• Butter, when served, [66].

• Cabs, London and Paris, [164, 165].
• Cabs, ushers and best men, [184], [186].
• Calls, afternoon, [43-46].
• Calls, balls and dances, [45].
• Calls, condolence, [45], [193].
• Calls, dinner, [45].
• Calls, evening, [43], [46].
• Calls, general etiquette of, [43-46], [106], [193].
• Calls, opera and theater, [45, 46].
• Calls, period in which to be made, [45].
• Card cases, [50].
• Card parties, [55].
• Cards, announcement, [176, 177].
• Cards, condolence, [50], [195].
• Cards, etiquette of leaving, [52, 53].
• Cards, etiquette of playing, [159].
• Cards, etiquette of visiting, [49-53], [106], [193].
• Cards, how many to leave, [51].
• Cards, leaving in person, [50, 51].
• Cards, mailing, [50].
• Cards, wedding, [174-176].
• Carriage, etiquette of, [4], [139].
• Cars, etiquette in street, [4], [8, 9].
• Carving, [65].
• Ceremony, wedding, [184, 185].
• Chafed faces, how to prevent, [19].
• Chafing-dish suppers, [78].
• Chains, watch, [16].
• Champagne, [71], [77], [78], [81].
• Changing clothes, [23], [24].
• Chaperones, [76], [79], [82], [87], [109].
• Cheating at games, [154].
• Christening, etiquette of, [196].
• Church, aisles, going up, [5].
• Church, ceremony at weddings, [184, 185].
• Churches, foreign, [166].
• Claret, [71].
• Cleaning clothes, [31].
• Clergy, addressing, manner of, [122], [168].
• Closets, clothes put in, [26].
• Clothes, care of, [24-31].
• Clothes, cost of, [32-42].
• Clothes, folding and brushing, [24-31].
• Clothes, overhauling, [30].
• Clothes, packing and putting away, [30, 31], [91-93].
• Clothes, removing and changing, [23-27].
• Clothes, removing grease stains from, [31].
• Clowns of society, [199].
• Club, admission of visitors, [131, 132].
• Club, admission to, [128-130].
• Club, bowing from, window, [134].
• Club, elections to membership, [128-130].
• Clubs, etiquette of, [126-136].
• Club, pipe smoking at, [133].
• Club servants, [134].
• Club, treating at, [134].
• Club, wearing hat at, [133].
• Club, where ladies are admitted, [135].
• Coaching, [143, 144].
• Coaching, dress for, [144].
• Coachman, dress or and livery, [98].
• Coachman, duties of, [98].
• Coat of arms, [121].
• Coats, care, folding, and keeping of, [24-26].
• Coats, cost of, [33-36], [38].
• Coats, dinner or Tuxedo, [15], [35].
• Coats, dinner or Tuxedo, cost of, [35].
• Coats, dress or evening, when to wear, [13], [56], [164-167], [186].
• Coats, frock, cost of, [38].
• Coats, frock, when to wear, [12], [13], [186, 187], [195].
• Coats, frock, colored, [13].
• Coats, lounge or sack, [10-12].
• Coffee, black, when served, [73].
• "Company," [198].
• Condolence, letters of, [125].
• Congratulation, letters of, [125].
• Corn, eating on cob, [72].
• Correspondence, etiquette of business, [120-123].
• Correspondence, etiquette of friendly, [119-121], [124].
• Cotillon, etiquette of, [112-118].
• Cotillon, figures of, [116-118].
• Cotillon, form of, [112-115].
• Cotillon, leading a, [113-115].
• Country house, entertaining by bachelor, [86-89].
• Country house, etiquette at, [85-93].
• Country house, furnishing of, [88].
• Country house, tipping servants at, [90].
• Country house, visits at, [88-90].
• Crests, use of, [121].
• Crossing legs in public, [8].
• Crossing streets, [1, 2].
• Cucumbers, how served and eaten, [69].
• Customhouse, French and English, [166, 167].

• "Damn," when it may be excused, [200].
• Dance card, not used in New York, [108].
• Dance, etiquette of, [102-118].
• Dance, forms of, [109], [114-118].
• Dance, manner of asking to, [108].
• Dances, bachelor, [82].
• Dances, dinner, [60].
• Dances, invitations to, [48].
• "Del's," [197].
• Diamonds, [16].
• Dinner, bachelor farewell, [161, 162].
• Dinner, bachelor host at home, [77, 78].
• Dinner, bachelor host at restaurant, [83].
• Dinner coat, when worn, [15].
• Dinner dance, [60].
• Dinner, general etiquette of, [46, 47], [54-74], [77, 78], [82, 83], [161, 162].
• Dinner, serving at, [78], [100].
• Don'ts of table etiquette, [62-65].
• Dress, afternoon, [13].
• Dress, afternoon wedding, [179], [185], [187].
• Dress, bachelor's, for all times, [13-16].
• Dress, badminton, [148].
• Dress, bathing, [156].
• Dress, boating, [156].
• Dress, bowling, [157].
• Dress, butler, [101].
• Dress, coaching, [138].
• Dress, coachman, [98].
• Dress, driving and coaching, [138].
• Dress, evening, [13-15], [32-35], [56], [156], [164], [166], [167].
• Dress, evening, formal, [13, 14].
• Dress, evening, informal, [15].
• Dress, evening wedding, [187].
• Dress, foreign, morning and evening functions, [164], [166], [167].
• Dress, funeral, [195].
• Dress, golf, [154].
• Dress, groom, [96, 97].
• Dress, morning or lounge, [11, 12].
• Dress, polo, [148].
• Dress, riding, [142].
• Dress, riding to hounds, [142].
• Dress, shipboard, [161, 162].
• Dress, shooting, [146].
• Dress, skating, [148].
• Dress, tennis, [156].
• Dress, theaters, London and Paris, [166].
• Dress, traveling, [160].
• Dress, valet, [99, 100].
• Dress, wheeling, [145].
• Dress, yachting, [149], [152].
• Drinking with mouth full, [63].

• Eggs, eaten from shell, [66].
• Elevator, etiquette of, [5].
• Engagements, announcement, [169, 170].
• Engagements, etiquette of, [169], [171].
• Engagements, presents during, [171].
• Engagement ring, [170].
• Entrées, manner of serving, [69].
• Envelopes and stationery, proper form of, [120], [122, 123].
• Envelopes, sealing, [122, 123].
• Escorts, [5], [9].
• Esquire, when used, [121].
• Expenses, wedding, who pays, [177].
• Eye, bath for, [19].

• Fares, paying, [9].
• Fees, foreign countries, [163-165].
• Feet, care of, [21].
• Fish, manner of eating, [69].
• Flask, brandy, [161].
• Flowers, sending, [171], [194], [198].
• Foreign etiquette, [162], [164].
• Foreign marriages, [191, 192].
• "Four hundred," [197].
• French titles, [168].
• Frock coats, [12], [13], [38], [184], [195].
• Fruit, manner of eating, [71, 72].

• Gifts, when engaged, [171].
• Golf, dress for, [155].
• Golf, etiquette of, [153, 154].
• Gotham, [197].
• Grace at meals, [58].
• Grape fruit, [67].
• Grease, removal of, [31].
• Greetings, [198].
• Groom, dress of, [96, 97].
• Groom, duties of, [96-98].

• Hairbrushes, [22].
• Hair, care of, [21].
• Handkerchiefs, pocket, [14], [27].
• Hands, care of, [20].
• Hands on table, [64].
• Hat, care of, [28].
• Hat, Derby, when worn, [11].
• Hat, Hombourg or Alpine, when worn, [11].
• Hat, opera or crush, [13].
• Hat, straw, [15].
• Hat, top or silk, [13], [14].
• Hoisting colors, [150, 151].
• Hounds, riding to, [142].