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If civil law is the outgrowth of regard for other people’s rights, social law is equally the outgrowth of regard for other people’s feelings and convenience. Social law is kindness and good-will and the desire to be agreeable codified. A system of so much importance cannot be...
The table looks best when not over-decorated. The housekeeper who cannot make changes in her table decoration finds that a mirror centerpiece is a background that multiplies the...
8. CHAPTER II.The expression “presents compliments” is obsolete, as is also the term “polite,” which was formerly used in acceptances or regrets. The English form of “kind” or “very kind” is...
17. CHAPTER XI.A man raises his hat when walking with another, not only to his own acquaintances, but to those persons who bow to his companion, whether he is acquainted with them or not.
9. CHAPTER III.A “dinner” is supposed to be an elaborate affair, with numerous courses and ample service, and is usually given at seven or eight o’clock in the evening. At a dinner the number...
7. CHAPTER I.When either name is not perfectly understood, a repetition of it should be requested of the person making the introduction. When introductions are given, it is the man who shoul...
11. CHAPTER V.In appropriateness our people have something to learn, as has the whole world, for that matter. Necklaces and jewels in the morning are monstrous, no matter what the fashion of...
16. CHAPTER XI.When a letter is written in reply to another, the date of the letter to which the reply is made should be given, and it is an excellent plan, and one that saves much time, to gi...
10. CHAPTER IV.The late Dr. George Ripley was wont to say that the secret of being agreeable in conversation was to be honorable to the ideas of others. He affirmed that some people only half...
14. CHAPTER VIII.Children, when very young, should be taught to be generous and polite to their little visitors, and, if necessary, to give up all of anything where half will not do.
13. CHAPTER VII.At no place is a lack of system, and an observance of formality, more noticeable than at a funeral. An undertaker generally has charge of the details, and where he is well infor...
6. CHAPTER XI.If civil law is the outgrowth of regard for other people’s rights, social law is equally the outgrowth of regard for other people’s feelings and convenience. Social law is kindn...
15. CHAPTER X.The President’s “levees” at Washington are open to all, and are conducted very much as an ordinary “reception.” As one enters, an official announces him, and he proceeds directl...
2. CHAPTER III.1. CHAPTER II.5. CHAPTER VI.4. CHAPTER V.3. CHAPTER IV.