Beadle's Dime Book of Practical Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen Being a Guide to True Gentility and Good-Breeding, and a Complete Directory to the Usages and Observances of Society

Being a Guide to True Gentility and Good-Breeding, and a Complete Directory to the Usages and Observances of Society. Including Etiquette of the Ball Room, of the Evening Party,...

Beware of asking the hour, or of taking out your watch during a visit; avoid spitting on the floor--your pocket-handkerchief will serve your purpose. To place your hat on any ar...

Letters between friends are simply conversation; from an inferior to a superior they should have a tone of caution, at once concise and respectful. A letter of business is expre...

Of course a lady will not be rude, nor dress so as attract undue attention, much less to create unpleasant remark. She will be kind to all; she will not absorb too much of the w...

If you propose a commercial life, let there be no hesitation in the decision; but go at it bravely, cheerfully, persistently, that your majority may find you enjoying the confid...

For visiting cards, the custom changes often. Sometimes it is a glazed card, sometimes not; sometimes a large one, sometimes a small one; sometimes with silvered edges, sometime...