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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... wearing of gloves - Evening or full dress for gentlemen - Morning dress for gentlemen - Evening or full dress for ladies - Ball dresses - The full dinner dress - For receiving and making morning calls - Morning dress for street ...
... wearing of gloves - Evening or full dress for gentlemen - Morning dress for gentlemen - Evening or full dress for ladies - Ball dresses - The full dinner dress - For receiving and making morning calls - Morning dress for street ...
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... wears his hat on his head in the presence of ladies who come to buy of him , if he does not see that the heavy door of his shop is opened and closed for them , if he seats himself in their presence , if he smokes a pipe or cigar , or ...
... wears his hat on his head in the presence of ladies who come to buy of him , if he does not see that the heavy door of his shop is opened and closed for them , if he seats himself in their presence , if he smokes a pipe or cigar , or ...
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... A master or mistress should never censure the servants at dinner , however things may go wrong . Servants should wear thin - soled shoes that their steps may be noiseless , and if they should use napkins 8 DINNER GIVING AND DINING OUT .
... A master or mistress should never censure the servants at dinner , however things may go wrong . Servants should wear thin - soled shoes that their steps may be noiseless , and if they should use napkins 8 DINNER GIVING AND DINING OUT .
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... wear gloves in waiting at table , but to use a damask napkin , with one corner wrapped around the thumb , that he may not touch the plates and dishes with the naked hand . SOUP . Soup is the first course . All should accept it even if ...
... wear gloves in waiting at table , but to use a damask napkin , with one corner wrapped around the thumb , that he may not touch the plates and dishes with the naked hand . SOUP . Soup is the first course . All should accept it even if ...
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... wear the usual morning dress . Ladies wear the demi - toilet , with or without bonnets . At five o'clock tea ( or coffee ) , the 132 RECEPTIONS , PARTIES AND BALLS .
... wear the usual morning dress . Ladies wear the demi - toilet , with or without bonnets . At five o'clock tea ( or coffee ) , the 132 RECEPTIONS , PARTIES AND BALLS .
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Beliebte Passagen
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,