The Blue Book Of Etiquette For Women A Guide To Conduct And Dress On All Occasions

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... allowance at the outset and contrive by good management and legitimate economies to save something from it. Few men probably--and certainly not many young men--have anything like an adequate conception of the difficulties and responsibilities that devolve upon the housewife. A friend who had been married two or three years, confessed to me with amusing naivete that what he had learnt during a few weeks confinement to the house altogether upset his preconceived ideas on the subject of housekeeping and greatly increased his respect for his wife's ability. That man's household is well-managed and his wife, though barely beyond her teens, is a very sensible little body and thoroughly capable. If a pipe bursts, or the cook leaves suddenly in the middle of the day, she does not run to the telephone and uselessly bother her husband about the nutter but, instead, goes energetically to work to have the damage repaired, or the servant replaced, before her husband's return in the evening. She had a nasty fire in her cellar last winter of which, I believe, he has no knowledge to this day. You have been taught that husband and wife should hold nothing from each other, that they should share each other's burdens and so forth. This is a very correct principle and ought never to be violated in essential particulars, but common-sense forbids its application to the thousand and one little affairs of daily life. You would not have your husband share your toothache, and it would do you no good if he could. Why should he worry you with a recital of business troubles which you are neither able to understand nor to remedy? The injunction, "bear one another's burdens I " is not to be construed so as to afford excuse for troubling another with your every little...

Excerpt from The Blue Book of Etiquette for Women: A Guide to Conduct and Dress on All Believing that all commendable conven tionalities are more or less directly trace able to some altruistic or utilitarian princi ple, I have endeavored to present the fundamental features of Good Form. By combining ethics with etiquette. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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