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Manners and Social Usages

by M. E. W. Sherwood

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  1. 1Pg Transcriber’s Notes
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — Women as Leaders
  4. 4Chapter II — Optional Civilities
  5. 5Chapter III — Good and Bad Society
  6. 6Chapter IV — On Introducing People
  7. 7Chapter V — Visiting
  8. 8Chapter VI — Invitations, Acceptances, and Regrets
  9. 9Chapter VII — Cards of Compliment, Courtesy, Condolence, and Congra…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Etiquette of Weddings
  11. 11Chapter IX — “Who Pays for the Cards?”
  12. 12Chapter X — Weddings After Easter
  13. 13Chapter XI — Summer Weddings
  14. 14Chapter XII — Autumn Weddings
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Before the Wedding and After
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Gold, Silver, and Tin Weddings
  17. 17Chapter XV — The Etiquette of Balls
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Fashionable Dancing
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Letters and Letter-Writing
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Costly Thy Habit
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Dressing for Driving
  22. 22Chapter XX — Incongruities of Dress
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Etiquette of Mourning
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Mourning and Funeral Usages
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Letters of Condolence
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Chaperons and Their Duties
  27. 27Chapter XXV — Etiquette for Elderly Girls
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — New-Year’s Calls
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Matines and Soires
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Afternoon Tea
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Caudle and Christening Cups and Ceremonies
  32. 32Chapter XXX — The Modern Dinner-Table
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — Laying the Dinner-Table
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — Favors and Bonbonnieres
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Dinner-Table Novelties
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — Summer Dinners
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — Luncheons, Informal and Social
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — Supper-Parties
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — Simple Dinners
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — The Small-Talk of Society
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX — Garden-Parties
  42. 42Chapter XL — Silver Weddings and Other Wedding Anniversaries
  43. 43Chapter XLI — Spring and Summer Entertainments
  44. 44Chapter XLII — Floral Tributes and Decorations
  45. 45Chapter XLIII — The Fork and the Spoon
  46. 46Chapter XLIV — Napkins and Table-Cloths
  47. 47Chapter XLV — Servants, Their Dress and Duties
  48. 48Chapter XLVI — The House With One Servant
  49. 49Chapter XLVII — The House With Two Servants
  50. 50Chapter XLVIII — The House With Many Servants
  51. 51Chapter XLIX — Manners — A Study for the Awkward and the Shy
  52. 52Chapter L — How to Treat a Guest
  53. 53Chapter LI — Lady and Gentleman
  54. 54Chapter LII — The Manners of the Past
  55. 55Chapter LIII — The Manners of the Optimist
  56. 56Chapter LIV — The Manners of the Sympathetic
  57. 57Chapter LV — Certain Questions Answered
  58. 58Chapter LVI — English Table Manners and Social Usages
  59. 59Chapter LVII — American and English Etiquette Contrasted
  60. 60Chapter LVIII — How to Treat English People
  61. 61Chapter LIX — A Foreign Table D’Hote, and Casino Life Abroad

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