Etiquette

A comprehensive, practical manual addressing polite conduct and home hospitality for average households. It opens with the ethics of hospitality and proceeds to concrete guidance on visiting cards, invitations and replies, and the conduct of weddings and church ceremonies. Detailed chapters explain entertaining in many forms — teas, luncheons, dinners, receptions — including table arrangement, serving, and conversation. Later sections cover public behavior, introductions and greetings, dress and personal habits, social cooperation, youth and chaperonage, gifts, and gallantry, with attention to adapting established courtesies to changing technologies and modest household means.