Our Deportment: Or, the Manners, Conduct, and Dress of the Most Refined Society; Including Forms for Letters, Invitations, Etc. Also, Valuable Suggestions on Home Culture and TrainingF. B. Dickerson & Company, 1882 - 424 Seiten |
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... ball - The manner of introduction Introducing relatives - Obligatory introductions - Salutations after introduction - Introducing one's self - Letters of introduc- tion - How they are to be delivered - Duty of a person to whom a letter ...
... ball - The manner of introduction Introducing relatives - Obligatory introductions - Salutations after introduction - Introducing one's self - Letters of introduc- tion - How they are to be delivered - Duty of a person to whom a letter ...
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... BALLS . Morning receptions - The dress and refreshments for them - Invita- tions - Musical matinees - Parties in the country - Five o'clock teas and kettle - drums - Requisites for a successful ball - Intro- ductions at a ball ...
... BALLS . Morning receptions - The dress and refreshments for them - Invita- tions - Musical matinees - Parties in the country - Five o'clock teas and kettle - drums - Requisites for a successful ball - Intro- ductions at a ball ...
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... Ball dresses - The full dinner dress - For receiving and making morning calls - Morning dress for street -Carriage dress - Promenade dress and walking suit - Opera dress - The riding dress - For women of business - Ordinary PAGE . 296 ...
... Ball dresses - The full dinner dress - For receiving and making morning calls - Morning dress for street -Carriage dress - Promenade dress and walking suit - Opera dress - The riding dress - For women of business - Ordinary PAGE . 296 ...
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... BALL . It is the part of the host and hostess at a ball to introduce their guests , though guests may , with perfect propriety , introduce each other , or , as already 3 INTRODUCTIONS . 33.
... BALL . It is the part of the host and hostess at a ball to introduce their guests , though guests may , with perfect propriety , introduce each other , or , as already 3 INTRODUCTIONS . 33.
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... ball . The fact that they have been invited to meet each other is regarded as a guar- anty that they are fit to be ... balls it is well for ladies to dance only , or for the most part , with gentlemen of their own party , or those with ...
... ball . The fact that they have been invited to meet each other is regarded as a guar- anty that they are fit to be ... balls it is well for ladies to dance only , or for the most part , with gentlemen of their own party , or those with ...
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Seite 278 - Set not yourself at the upper end of the table; but if it be your due, or the master of the house .will have it so, contend not, lest you should trouble the company. When you speak of God or his attributes, let it be seriously, in reverence and honor, and obey your natural parents. Let your recreations be manful, not sinful. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Seite 278 - In disputes be not so desirous to overcome as not to give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion, and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.
Seite 276 - Play not the peacock, looking everywhere about you to see if you be well decked, if your shoes fit well, if your stockings sit neatly, and clothes handsomely.
Seite 12 - This is, of course, compatible with heroic bodily strength and mental firmness ; in fact, heroic strength is not conceivable without such delicacy. Elephantine strength may drive its way through a forest and feel no touch of the boughs ; but the white skin of Homer's Atrides would have felt a bent rose-leaf, yet subdue its feeling in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron.
Seite 278 - When another speaks, be attentive yourself, and disturb not the audience. If any hesitate in his words, help him not, nor prompt him without being desired ; interrupt him not, nor answer him, till his speech be ended.
Seite 274 - In the presence of others sing not to yourself with a humming noise, nor drum with your fingers or feet.
Seite 119 - They have a proverb here that fruit is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night.
Seite 276 - Speak not of doleful things in time of mirth, nor at the table; speak not of melancholy things, as death, and wounds, and if others mention them, change, if you can, the discourse.
Seite 23 - Gentleness in society, it has been truly said, " is like the silent influence of light, which gives color to all nature ; it is far more powerful than loudness or force, and far more fruitful. It pushes its way silently and persistently, like the tiniest daffodil in spring, which raises the clod, and thrusts it aside by the simple persistence of growing.
Seite 11 - A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body, which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation ; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies — one may say, simply,