Perfect Behavior

About this eBook

Author

Stewart, Donald Ogden, 1894-1980

Title

Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises

Credits

Produced by Charles Keller, and David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Etiquette -- Humor

Category

Text

eBook-No.

1446

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1446

Release Date

September 1, 1998

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Perfect Behavior — by Donald Ogden Stewart — Illustrated by Ralph Barton — A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises — Contents — CONTENTS
2. 2.CHAPTER ONE: THE ETIQUETTE OF COURTSHIP — A FEW WORDS ABOUT LOVE — CORRECT INTRODUCTIONS; HOW TO MAKE THEM — CARDS AND FLOWERS — FLOWERS AND THEIR MESSAGE IN COURTSHIP — RECEIVING AN INVITATION TO CALL — THE ETIQUETTE OF TELEPHONING — MAKING THE FIRST CALL — CONVERSATION AND SOME OF ITS USES — A PROPER CALL — THE PROPOSAL PROPER
3. 3.CHAPTER TWO: THE ETIQUETTE OF ENGAGEMENTS AND WEDDINGS — THE HISTORIC ASPECT — ANNOUNCING THE ENGAGEMENT — THE BRIDE-TO-BE — THE ENGAGEMENT LUNCHEON — SELECTING THE BRIDAL PARTY — INVITATIONS AND WEDDING PRESENTS — DUTIES OF THE BEST MAN — THE BRIDE’S TEA — THE MAID OF HONOR — THE BACHELOR DINNER AND AFTER — THE REHEARSAL — THE BRIDAL DINNER — A CHURCH WEDDING
4. 4.CHAPTER THREE: THE ETIQUETTE OF TRAVEL — HINTS FOR THE CORRECT PEDESTRIAN — TRAVELLING BY RAIL — GOOD FORM ON A STREET CAR — IN THE SUBWAY — A HONEYMOON IN A SUBWAY — TRAVELLING UNDER STEAM — A CORRECT NIGHT IN A PULLMAN
5. 5.CHAPTER FOUR: AT THE CONCERT AND THE OPERA — LISTENING TO A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — CORRECT BEHAVIOR AT A PIANO RECITAL — IN A BOX AT THE OPERA
6. 6.CHAPTER FIVE: ETIQUETTE FOR DRY AGENTS — SOME BROADER ASPECTS OF PROHIBITION — THE COLLEGE GRADUATE AS DRY AGENT — PLANNING A DRY RAID ON A MASQUERADE BALL — A WORD ABOUT CORRECT COSTUMES — GOOD FORM FOR DRY AGENTS DURING A RAID
7. 7.CHAPTER SIX: A CHAPTER FOR SCHOOLGIRLS — SELECTING A PROPER SCHOOL — CORRECT EQUIPMENT FOR THE SCHOOLGIRL — EN ROUTE — A JOURNEY AROUND NEW YORK — THE FIRST DAYS IN THE NEW SCHOOL — BECOMING ACCLIMATIZED — A VISITOR FROM PRINCETON
8. 8.CHAPTER SEVEN: THE ETIQUETTE OF GAMES AND SPORTS — GOLF AS A PASTIME — AN AFTERNOON AT THE OLD FARM WITH THE DICE — CORRECT BEHAVIOR ON A PICNIC — BOXING IN AMERICAN SOCIETY — BRIDGE WHIST — FORMAL AND INFORMAL DRINKING — A JOLLY HALLOWE’EN PARTY — INVITATIONS — RECEIVING THE GUESTS — HOW TO MYSTIFY — GAMES
9. 9.CHAPTER EIGHT: CORRESPONDENCE AND INVITATIONS — CORRESPONDENCE — CORRESPONDENCE FOR YOUNG LADIES — An Incorrect Letter from a Débutante to a Taxidermist Thanking Him for Having Stuffed Her Pet Alice — A Correct Letter from a Débutante to a Taxidermist Thanking Him for Having Stuffed Her Pet Alice — COLLEGE BOYS — An Incorrect Letter from a Princeton Student to a Yale Student Congratulating the Latter on His Football Victory — A Correct Letter from a Princeton Student to a Yale Student Congratulating the Latter on His Football Victory — LETTERS TO PARENTS — A Correct Letter from a Young Lady in Boarding School to Her Parents — LETTERS FROM PARENTS — A Correct Letter from a Mother to Her Son Congratulating Him on His Election to the Presidency of the United States — LETTERS TO PROSPECTIVE FATHERS-IN-LAW — A Correct Letter to a Prospective Father-in-Law Who Is a Business Man — A Correct Letter to a Prospective Father-in-Law Who Is in the Advertising Business — LOVE LETTERS — A Correct Letter from a Young Man Traveling in Europe to His Fiancée — CORRESPONDENCE OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS — A Correct “Public Letter” from a Congressman — A Correct Private Letter of a Congressman — LETTERS TO NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, ETC. — A Correct Letter from an Elderly Gentleman to the Editor of a Newspaper or Magazine — A Correct Letter from an Indignant Father to an Editor of Low Ideals — A Letter from a Member of the Lower Classes. Particular pains should be taken in answering such letters as it should always be our aim to lend a hand to those aspiring toward better things. — A Correct Letter to the Lost and Found Department of a Periodical, inquiring for a Missing Relative. This should be referred to the persons mentioned in the letter who will probably take prompt and vigorous action. — LETTERS TO STRANGERS — A CORRECT LETTER TO A FRENCH VISITOR — A CORRECT LETTER TO A BEARDED LADY — INVITATIONS — ACCEPTANCES AND REGRETS
10. 10.CHAPTER NINE: THE ETIQUETTE OF DINNERS AND BALLS — FORMAL DINNERS IN AMERICA — TABLE MANNERS FOR CHILDREN — A CHILD’S GARDEN OF ETIQUETTE — ETIQUETTE IN THE SCHOOL — CONVERSATION AT DINNER — STEWART’S LIGHTNING CALCULATOR OF DINNER TABLE CONVERSATION — BALLS AND DANCES — MIXED DANCING — HINTS FOR STAGS

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