Manners (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Manners

The very extensive sale of Practical Etiquette, a sale that has required the is suance of a large number of editions of the little manual, has been very gratifying to its author, as was also the commission of its publisher to re-write and enlarge the work. This commission, however, brought with it a keen sense of responsibility, for the author feels that a new work on etiquette can find a raz'son d'é'z're only in a fairly successful attempt at answering practically every ques tion that can arise concerning social rela tions, at least in ordinary social life. But to speak with authority on all matters of good form is to Speak dogmatically, and so to speak is in itself not good form. Nevertheless, and in Spite of this dilem ma, the author has attempted herein to decide, when compelled to do so, between conflicting opinions in mere matters of social custom, and has given as authority the opinion that seemed to her to conform most nearly to common sense, embodyingsuch opinion in an unqualified statement without citing authority. Fortunately, social customs are now so nearly uniform in all parts of the country, that one familiar with the ways of good society in the West or in the North, is at home in good society in the East or in the South.

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