High Society, by Fish, Anne Harriet; Parker, Dorothy; Chappell, George Shepard; Crowninshield, Frank

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Author

Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967

Title

High society : Advice as to social campaigning, and hints on the management of dowagers, dinners, debutantes, dances, and the thousand and one diversions of persons of quality

Credits

Produced by ellinora, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

NC: Fine Arts: Drawing, Design, Illustration

Subject

Caricatures and cartoons -- England

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 56739

Release Date

March 14, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.AN INVITATION TO THE READER
3. 3.The Social Merry-Go-Round — HIGH SOCIETY Advice as to Social Campaigning, and Hints on the Management of Dowagers, Dinners, Debutantes, Dances, and the Thousand and One Diversions of Persons of Quality
4. 4.Fish, And Her Work
5. 5.List Of Contents In Which the Scenes and the Principal Characters Are Revealed — THE HORSE SHOW — THE RESTAURANTS
6. 6.The Opening of the Social Season How the Members of the Beau Monde Will Spend What Is Left of Their War-time Incomes — THE ART SHOWS — THE FASHION FÊTES
7. 7.The Opera, in Full Blast Showing That Things Are Sounding Much as Usual At the Opera This Year — AN OPERATIC DUET — HOME, SWEET HOME — HEARTS AND FLOWERS — THE SPELL OF MUSIC — LES TROIS CORYPHÉES — THE EIGHT HOUR NIGHT
8. 8.Keeping on With the Dance You Will Certainly Be Considered a Social Pariah if You Don’t Dance the Night Out — MORNING—IN THE PARK — A LEGEND OF RUSSIA — THE SOCIETY DERVISHES — THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS
9. 9.Getting On, in Smart Society If, at First, You Don’t Succeed, Dine ’em and Dine ’em Again — IN THE INTELLECTUAL SET — HEARTS AND DIAMONDS — THE RECEPTION COMMITTEE — THE ATTACK ON BOHEMIA — SUCCESS AT LAST — HE’S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW
10. 10.Hints on Honeymoons—For the Very Rich How to Make a Smart Honeymoon—Comparatively Speaking—Agreeable — PEACE HATH HER VICTORIES — THE COTTAGE OF DREAMS — ALONE, AT LAST — WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE — THE EXPRESS TO EDEN — AMOUR DE VOYAGE
11. 11.The Poets That Bloom in the Spring A Popular New Pastime in Smart Society—the Matinée Poétique
12. 12.The Art Exhibition: Opening Day After All, There Is Nothing Like Modern Sculpture to Stimulate the Imagination
13. 13.A Week-End With the Recently Rich Showing That a Profiteer Is Without Honour in His Own Country — OUR HERO — A HORRIBLE MOMENT — THE COMMITTEE OF WELCOME — THE EROTIC MOTIVE — THE GRAND TOUR — ON WITH THE DANCE — THE BITTER END — THE DANCE OF THE GHOULS — LONG MAY HE PERMANENTLY WAVE — NO COAXING
14. 14.On the Trail of the Concert Lovers “Among Those Present”—at All the Smart Concert Halls — THE INFANT PRODIGY — THE MALE DUET — AMONG THOSE PRESENT
15. 15.The Trials of the Newly Poor A Heart-rending Picture of Life as it is Lived Behind Aristocratic Doors — THE IDEALS OF ALGY — BACK TO NATURE — THE PEER AND THE PERI — DE PROFUNDIS — SUCCESS AT LAST — MILLY, THE LIGHT-WEIGHT
16. 16.The Prize Fight Finally Gets into Society The Smartest Diversion Is Now the Science of the Swat and the Slam — MILADY, THE WELTER-WEIGHT — THE LADY BANTAM — A CHARMING EVENING IN HIGH SOCIETY — THE CARELESS CRITIC
17. 17.Dreadful Moments in Society Embarrassing Little Episodes Which Might Happen to Even the Best of Us — ART FOR THE ARTLESS — SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE — THE GREAT UNKNOWN — POVERTY AND RICHES — ENTER THE HERO
18. 18.On the Trail of a Wife Détours on the Road to Matrimony — THE SECOND ENTRY — EXHIBIT C — THE ORDEAL BY AIR — THE SAD CASE OF PEGGY — ANOTHER BLOW — THE BITTER END — THE DAWN OF A NEW LIFE — THE ENDLESS CHAIN
19. 19.Divorce: A Great Indoor Sport It is Beginning to Rank First Among Our Fashionable and Popular Pastimes — THE FLAW — THE DIVORCE SPECIAL — OLD HOME WEEK — BACK TO THE START AGAIN
20. 20.Wild Bores We Have Met Question! Who—in Society—Is the Unadulterated, 100 Per Cent. Bore? — BEHIND THE “TIMES” — THE MONDAY-TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY BORE — THE BABY BORE — THE BOASTFUL BORE — THE DIETETIC BORE — THE THEATRE BORE — THE AWAKENING TO SPRING — HAIL, THE CONQUERING HERO! — THE PROFESSIONAL SIREN
21. 21.The Throes of First Love, in Society A Few Fashionable Little Variations on the Oldest Theme in the World — LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT — THE DANGEROUS DÉBUTANTE — FIRST LOVE—AND THE NOBLE THEATRICAL GOD — GARDENING
22. 22.A Calendar of Popular Outdoor Sports As Practised Among Persons of Breeding and Quality — LAWN TENNIS — INDOOR GOLF — SUMMER BOATING — CROQUET
23. 23.The Seven Deadly Temperaments As Frequently Met With in the Ladies — THE FELINE TEMPERAMENT — THE MATERNAL TEMPERAMENT — THE SOULFUL TEMPERAMENT — THE ROMANTIC TEMPERAMENT — THE NAGGING TEMPERAMENT — THE PRACTICAL TEMPERAMENT — THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT
24. 24.Six Brands of Week-End Hostesses It’s a Lusty Life, if You Don’t Week-End — THE UNSEEN HOSTESS — THE BISHOP’S MOVE — THE MUSICAL HOSTESS — THE WELL MEANING HOSTESS — THE VANISHING HOSTESS — PALM SUNDAY
25. 25.After-the-War Servant Problems How the Great Conflict ended the Golden Days of Service in the Houses of the Elect — GILDING THE LILY — TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE — WHY BOYS LEAVE HOME — TIGER! TIGER! — THE ULTIMATE STRAW — CASUALS OF THE AVENUE
26. 26.Advice to the Lovelorn What Every Girl Should Know, Before Choosing a Husband — LE PREMIER PAS — BEWARE THE SOCIETY FAVORITE — BEWARE THE MODERNIST POET — THE FUTURIST—WITH A PAST — WITH THIS RING — THE RIGHT MAN—AT LAST — HERE ARE YOUR JEWELS
27. 27.The Open Season for Strikes If You Don’t See What You Want, Strike for It — THE HUSBANDS’ REVOLT — WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SAYING? — THE WIVES’ UNION — THE WAYS OF A MAID — THE ULTIMATE HORROR — THE PORTRAITS OF OLD
28. 28.The Art of Fashionable Portraiture You Can’t Quite Be “It,” Without the Aid of a Modernist Artist — GO TO THE AUNT — THE OVAL-SHAPED LADY — THE HUMAN EGG — THE NUDE SOUL
29. 29.Social Superstitions With Very Special Obeisances to Cupid — THE SHEEP—AND THE GOAT — THE SUIT AND THE SUITOR — SALT AND BATTERY — THE WORST IS YET TO COME — THE CROIX DE COUTEAUX — DANGEROUS DIANA
30. 30.Who’s Who—in the Audience Showing That the Smart Playgoer, Not the Smart Play, Is Really the Thing — IT’S ALL IN THE LINES — CINEMA LOVERS — CAN YOU GUESS WHO’S ON THE STAGE? — DOUBLE ENTENDRES — FOR THE CHILDREN’S SAKE — CAN YOU GUESS WHO’S ON THE STAGE, NOW? — SPEEDING THE PARTING GUESTS
31. 31.The Horrors of the Week End From the Tortured Hostess’s Point of View — WHY DINNER WAS LATE — VISITORS-IN-LAW — THE LADY BURGLAR — THE HOOT-OWL — RUDENESS REPAID
32. 32.When Marriage Is a Failure—Cherchez la Femme Have You a Little Failure In Your Home? — A CATALOGUE OF WIVES — THE LAPLAND MODEL — THE SECRET SOLVED — THE SENSITIVE WIFE — THE “DRESSY” WIFE — THE HUMAN BANK ACCOUNT
33. 33.Opening of the Opera Season — THE POOR, INNOCENT VICTIM
34. 34.Blighters at Bridge A Terrifying Triumvirate of Familiar Lady Auction Pests — THE BLIGHTER, PAR EXCELLENCE — THE HOODOO-ED DOWAGER
35. 35.A Way to Succeed on the Stage A Lady, Once a Creature of Fashion, and Now a Famous Actress, Tells of Her Success — CONSIDER YOUR AUDIENCE — REMEMBER YOUR MOTHER — TRY TO BE KIND TO THE CRITICS — THE BEAUTY OF MODERATION
36. 36.Sports for the Summer The Increasingly Feminine Tone of Outdoor Diversions — MOTORING — CANOODLING — SLAVING — DANCING — SEA BATHING HAS BECOME THE KING OF ALL THE DRY SPORTS
37. 37.The Strategy and Finesse of Proposing Advance Leaves from 1921 Handbook of Courtship — THE PROPOSAL BY LETTER — THE PROPOSAL TERPSICHOREAN — THE PROPOSAL, A LA PASHA — THE PROPOSAL BY TELEPHONE — THE PROPOSAL BY PHONOGRAPH — LANDED AT LAST — THE NEWLY RICH ELEMENT — FOND MEMORIES
38. 38.Palmy Days at the Seaside Sights at the Bathing Resorts When the Season for Salt Water is Declared On — ON THE SIDE LINES — THE CINEMA VAMP — THE TENNIS HOUNDS — MIXED FOURSOMES — THE RECENTLY RICH — THE LURE OF THE STAGE — SEASIDE PANORAMA — GLIMPSES WITHIN
39. 39.An Interview with A Great Dancer Privileged Peeps into the Soul of Mlle. Angeline, of Paris — BARKING BLOSSOMS — ALONG THE BEACH — THE MOTHER INSTINCT — BUCOLIC BEAUTIES — THE FLORAL TRIBUTE — ANGELINE’S ADORABLE ADIEU
40. 40.Transcriber’s Notes

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