Social Life: Or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society, Containing the Rules of Etiquette for All Occasions ...Co-operative publishing Company, 1896 - 492 páginas |
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Social Etiquette: Or, Manners and Customs of Polite Society ... Maud C. Cooke Vista de fragmentos - 1899 |
Social Etiquette, Or: Manners and Customs of Polite Society Maud C Cooke Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
accept acquaintance afternoon tea Algernon Smith Anniversary ARTHUR HOLT attention ball Bavarian Cream beautiful breakfast bridal bride bridemaids cards chaperon church coffee color conversation costume course courtesy custom dance daughter decorations desired dinner dishes dress engraved entertainment envelope etiquette fashion favor flowers fork formal Francis Brown frequently friends garden party gentleman girls give given glass gloves godparents gown guests hand honor host hostess hour HOWARD POST introduce invitation knife leave letter luncheon manner manor born marriage married Miss morning dress napkin never o'clock occasion oysters party person plate present quadrilles receive reception request the pleasure rule salad seat sent servant served simply social sometimes soup spoon street supper Table Etiquette taste tion unless usually visiting visiting card wear wedding wine woman women words worn young lady
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Página 107 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Página 299 - It is the unique faculty of not only perceiving "sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and good in everything...
Página 320 - Monday's child is fair of face/ Tuesday's child is full of grace/ Wednesday's child is full of woe/ Thursday's child has far to go...
Página 18 - ... recommend, prepare, and draw people together; how, in all clubs, manners make the members ; how manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth; that, for the most part, his manners marry him, and, for the most part, he marries manners; when we think what keys they are, and to what secrets ; what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character they convey; and what divination is required in us, for the reading of this fine telegraph, we see what range the subject has, and what relations to convenience,...
Página 26 - ... respectability of the other. Never undertake this responsibility without in the first place asking yourself whether the persons are likely to be agreeable to each other; nor, in the second place, without ascertaining whether it will be acceptable to both parties to become acquainted. Always introduce the gentleman to the lady — never the lady to the gentleman. The chivalry of etiquette assumes that the lady is invariably the superior in right of her sex, and that the gentleman is honoured in...
Página 22 - A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
Página 335 - Gentlemen give place to ladies, and to gentlemen accompanying ladies, in crossing the street. If you have anything to say to a lady whom you may happen to meet in the street, however intimate you may be, do not stop her, but turn round and walk in company; you can take leave at the end of the street.
Página 37 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company ; this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.
Página 338 - ... facing her, and stooping, hold your hand so that she may place her left foot in it ; then lift it as she springs, so as to aid her, but not to give such an impetus that, like " vaulting ambition," she loses her balance, and " falls o
Página 376 - President. They also make an annual call of ceremony, by card or in person, on the above mentioned officials soon after the meeting of Congress. They are entitled to the first calls from all other persons. The Judges of the Court of Claims call in person upon the President on New Year's Day and the Fourth of July. They pay first calls to Cabinet Officers and Members of the Diplomatic Corps, and call annually, by card or in person, upon the Vice-President, Judges of the Supreme Court, Senators, Speaker...