item: #1 of 32 id: 12029 author: Conway, Moncure Daniel title: George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway date: None words: 26235 flesch: 71 summary: Et prenez bien garde aussi en quel lieu vous vous assoirez, où vous vous mettrez à genoux, où vous vous accouderez, que le lieu ne soit point malpropre, ny reply d'immondices. Gardez vous bien de vous arrester en toute sorte de conuersation, à rajuster vostre rabat, ou à rehausser vos chausses pour les faire ioindre & en paroitre plus galaud. keywords: action; advice; age; amusez; approach; arms; aucune; auec; aussi; authority; autres; aux; beaucoup; behaviour; better; bien; bien de; body; bon; book; bouche; boy; bras; bread; british; brother; business; c'est; care; careful; case; cela; celles; celuy; ceremonies; certain; cette; chapter; chapter vii; character; child; children; church; ciuilité; civility; clean; close; college; comme; compagnie; company; conduct; contrary; conversation; corps; court; custom; d'en; d'vne; dans; day; de la; deference; degree; des; dignity; discourse; discovery; doit; donner; drinking; early; edition; education; eminent; en la; england; english; equal; est; estre; face; faire; fairfax; faites; family; father; faults; faut; feet; fois; following; footnote; fort; france; fredericksburg; french; friend; gardez; gardez vous; general; gentleman; george; god; good; grand; grave; great; hand; hat; hawkins; head; help; highest; honour; house; huguenot; iamais; iii; il ne; importance; james; jest; jesuit; jeu; judgment; knife; known; l'autre; l'on; la bien; la bouche; ladies; language; later; latin; laugh; leave; left; les; letters; leur; lieu; like; little; london; long; lors; luy; main; mais; maison; man; manger; manners; marye; master; matters; maxims; meat; men; mesme; mettez; mettre; mind; moderation; modesty; moins; moral; morceau; mother; mouth; museum; n'est; napkin; natural; nature; ne le; ne vous; necessary; new; non; nous; occasion; old; open; opinion; order; original; pain; par; parents; parlez; parmy; paroles; particulierement; pas; pas de; passion; people; personne; persons; peu; peut; pierre; place; play; point; poor; possible; pour; premier; prendre; prenez; presence; present; press; principalement; printed; private; promenade; proper; propos; public; puisse; périn; qu'il; quality; quand; quand vous; que; que vous; quelque; qui; quoy; rank; reader; reason; respect; rest; rev; reverence; right; rules; s'il; sans; school; second; secret; self; semble; sentiment; sera; ses; shew; si vous; sidenote; small; society; soient; soin; soit; son; sont; sorte; soyez; speak; stop; suiet; sur; sure; sweetness; table; talk; tant; temps; thee; things; thou; time; toner; tousiours; tout; toutesfois; town; trop; turn; vernon; version; viandes; vii; viii; virginia; virtue; visage; vne; vostre; vous; vous amusez; vous bien; vous en; vous vous; walk; walker; washington; willis; words; work; world; worthy; writing; y'e; year; young; égaux cache: 12029.txt plain text: 12029.txt item: #2 of 32 id: 12426 author: Routledge, George title: Routledge's Manual of Etiquette date: None words: 87963 flesch: 75 summary: Les dames en moulinet, _ladies give right hands across to each other, half round, and back again with left hands_. A lady should be particular during the early days of courtship--while still retaining some clearness of mental vision--to observe the manner in which her suitor comports himself to other ladies. keywords: 1st; 2nd; 3rd; account; acquaintance; address; advance; advantage; agreeable; altar; appearance; attempt; attention; awkward; bad; balancez; ball; banns; bars; bear; beat; beat_.--spring; beauty; beef; beginning; best; better; bird; black; blue; bone; bonnet; book; bow; brave; breakfast; breast; breeding; bride; bridegroom; bridesmaids; britain; british; brother; business; cards; care; careful; carving; case; cellarius; centre; ceremony; certain; chaine; champagne; change; character; children; choice; church; circle; circumstances; claret; clever; close; coloured; colours; common; company; compliment; conduct; consent; consideration; conversation; corner; correct; costume; country; couples; course; courtesy; courtship; cross; custom; cut; dance; dancers; dancing; dark; day; days; dear; delicate; desire; dessert; deux; different; difficult; dinner; direction; dish; door; double; doubt; drawing; dress; dressed; duties; duty; early; ease; easy; effect; elegant; endeavour; engagement; england; english; etiquette; evening; eye; face; fact; fair; fall; family; far; fashion; fashionable; fashioned; father; favourite; feeling; feet; figure; fine; fish; flowers; following; foot; fork; form; forward; fourth; fowl; freedom; french; fresh; friends; game; general; gentleman; gift; girl; giving; glasses; gloves; good; gown; graceful; grand; great; greatest; green; guardian; guests; habits; hair; half; hand; happiness; happy; harmony; hat; head; health; heart; help; high; higher; home; honour; hostess; hour; house; husband; illustration; importance; indispensable; inside; instance; interest; introduction; invitation; invite; jewellery; kind; knife; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; large; laws; lead; leading; leave; left; left foot; left hand; length; letters; liberty; licence; life; like; likely; line; little; london; long; longer; look; love; luncheon; manner; marriage; married; materials; matrimony; matter; means; meat; meet; memory; men; mere; middle; mind; mistake; mistress; moment; money; monsieur; morning; mother; movement; music; mutton; mutual; names; natural; nature; near; necessary; neck; need; new; note; notice; number; object; observed; occasion; offer; old; opportunity; opposite; order; ordinary; pair; paper; parents; paris; particular; parties; partner; party; pass; passing; people; permission; personal; persons; petit; piece; places; plate; play; pleasant; pleasing; pleasure; point; polite; politeness; polka; portion; position; possible; pour; power; precedence; prefer; presence; present; pretty; previous; private; promenade; proper; propriety; public; purpose; quadrille; quality; queen; question; rank; ready; real; reason; received; regard; repeat; reply; respect; rest; retire; retreat; return; rich; right; right foot; right hand; ring; rise; room; round; rule; seat; second; sense; servant; set; shape; short; shoulder; silk; simple; size; slices; slight; small; social; society; soup; spoon; spring; stand; station; step; stranger; style; subject; sufficient; supply; table; taking; taste; temper; temps; things; thought; time; toilette; tour; true; turn; turning; usual; valse; variety; veal; visitors; visits; vulgar; walking; want; way; wear; wedding; white; wife; wine; wish; wishes; woman; words; work; world; years; young; young lady cache: 12426.txt plain text: 12426.txt item: #3 of 32 id: 13004 author: Burgess, Gelett title: More Goops and How Not to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants date: None words: 3618 flesch: 91 summary: [Illustration: Exaggeration] _EXAGGERATION_ Don't try to tell a story To beat the one you've heard; For if you try, you're apt to lie, And _that_ would be absurd! Don't try to be more funny Than any one in school; [Illustration: Don't be Bad] _DON'T BE BAD_ Just as long as you dare to be, Because your mother doesn't see. keywords: 4to; baby; book; burgess; care; co.; day; dress; feet; frederick; good; goop; illustration; little; look; manners; mother; new; noise; party; play; right; seed; small; stealing; stokes; street; york cache: 13004.txt plain text: 13004.txt item: #4 of 32 id: 14314 author: Post, Emily title: Etiquette date: None words: 210528 flesch: 71 summary: If other young men or any young girls are standing near, the hostess very likely introduces him. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, often with much that is shabby, or they are perhaps empty to the point of bareness, and yet they have that inviting atmosphere, and air of unmistakable quality which is an unfailing indication of high-bred people. keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; ability; accepted; accompanied; account; acquaintance; actual; additional; address; advantage; affairs; afford; afternoon; agreeable; aisle; alice; ambassador; american; amusing; announcement; answer; apartment; appearance; approach; appropriate; arm; arms; arrangement; articles; aside; ask; asking; attempt; attention; attitude; attractive; aunt; avenue; average; awkward; baby; bachelor; background; bad; ball; ballroom; bath; beautiful; beauty; bed; bedroom; beginning; begins; behavior; bell; best; best man; big; black; blue; book; bored; boston; bouillon; bouquet; bow; bowl; bows; box; boxes; boy; boys; bread; breakfast; breeding; bridal; bride; bridegroom; bridesmaids; brilliant; broken; brother; business; butler; cake; calls; camp; candy; cap; card; care; careful; case; casual; caterer; center; centerpiece; century; ceremony; certain; chair; champagne; chancel; chaperon; chapter; character; charge; charm; charming; chauffeur; checks; chicken; chief; children; china; chocolate; choice; christening; church; cigar; circumstances; cities; city; clean; cleaning; clergyman; close; clothes; club; coat; coffee; cold; collar; color; colored; come; comfort; comfortable; coming; committee; common; community; companion; company; complete; conduct; consideration; conspicuous; contact; contrary; conventional; conversation; cook; corner; correct; cost; cotton; country; country house; couple; course; courteous; courtesy; covered; cream; crepe; criticism; cuffs; cultivation; cup; cups; custom; customary; cut; damask; dance; dancing; dark; date; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; dear mrs; death; decoration; deep; delighted; demands; description; dessert; details; dick; different; difficult; dignified; dignity; dine; dining; dinner; dinner dress; dinner table; direct; discomfort; dishes; dislike; display; distance; distinction; distinguished; doe; door; double; doubt; dozen; drawing; dress; dresses; dressing; drive; duke; dull; duties; duty; débutante; early; easy; eating; edge; education; effect; effort; eggs; elaborate; elderly; embroidered; engaged; engagement; england; english; entertaining; entertainment; entire; entrance; envelope; equal; equipment; especial; essential; etc; ethel; etiquette; europe; european; evening; event; evidence; example; excepting; excuse; expensive; expert; expression; extra; eyes; face; fact; fail; fair; families; family; fancy; far; fashion; fashionable; fashioned; father; feeling; feet; fifth; fine; finger; finished; fire; fish; fit; flannel; flat; floor; flowers; follow; following; food; footmen; foreign; forget; fork; formal; formal dinner; forms; forward; fourth; free; french; fresh; friendly; friends; fruit; funeral; furniture; future; game; garden; general; generation; gentleman; genuine; gift; gilding; girl; giving; glad; glass; glasses; gloves; godmother; going; golden; golf; good; good manners; good taste; good time; governors; grace; gray; great; greater; greatest; green; group; growing; grown; guest room; guests; guide; habit; half; hall; hand; happy; hard; hat; hats; head; heart; heavy; height; help; high; highest; hold; home; honor; honorable; hope; hospitality; hostess; hostesses; hot; hotel; hour; house; house party; house wedding; household; housekeeper; housemaid; huge; human; huntington; husband; idea; illness; illustration; immediate; important; inches; individual; inevitable; informal; initials; instance; interest; intimate; introduction; invalid; invitations; january; jim; john; jones; journey; justice; keeping; kind; kindhart; kitchen; knife; knives; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; language; large; later; lavish; law; lawn; leave; leaving; left; length; letter; library; life; like; likely; limited; linen; list; little; little house; lives; london; long; longer; look; looking; love; lovejoy; lovely; luck; luggage; lunch; luncheon; maid; makes; making; man; manners; mark; marked; marriage; married; mary; match; material; matter; meal; meaning; means; measure; meat; medium; meet; meeting; member; membership; memory; men; menu; mere; message; method; middle; miles; mind; minister; minutes; miss; moderate; modern; moment; monday; money; months; mother; motor; mourning; mrs; music; names; napkin; narrow; natural; near; nearest; necessary; necessity; need; needless; neighbors; new; new york; newport; news; norman; note; notice; number; nurse; nursery; o'clock; object; occasions; odd; offer; office; old; oldname; open; opera; opinion; opposite; orange; order; ordinary; ornament; outside; page; pantry; paper; parents; paris; park; parlor; particular; parties; partner; party; past; people; perfect; perfection; performance; period; person; personal; personality; pew; pews; picnic; picture; piece; pink; place; plain; plates; play; playing; pleasant; pleasure; plenty; point; pointed; polished; polite; politeness; poor; popular; popularity; position; possible; post; practise; prefer; prepared; presence; present; president; pretty; private; procession; professional; prominent; proper; proportion; public; purpose; quality; quantity; quarters; queen; question; quiet; r.s.v.p; railroad; rank; reading; ready; real; reason; reception; regret; regular; relative; remarks; request; reserved; respect; restaurant; result; return; ribbons; rich; riding; right; ring; rises; risk; robinson; room; rude; rudeness; rule; run; salad; sally; sandwiches; satin; sauce; school; seat; second; secretary; selection; self; senator; sending; sense; separate; servants; service; serving; set; shake; shirt; shoes; sign; silk; silver; simple; single; sir; sister; sit; sitting; situation; sixth; size; slightest; slippers; small; small house; smaller; smart; smartest; smartlington; smile; smith; smoke; smoking; smooth; social; society; soft; sorry; sort; sound; soup; space; speak; speaking; speech; spirit; spite; spoken; spoon; sports; spread; square; stage; stairs; stand; standing; states; station; stay; steamer; steps; stick; stockings; stop; straight; stranger; street; strong; style; subject; success; sufficient; sugar; suggestive; suitable; suits; summer; sunday; supper; supposing; sure; sweet; sympathy; table; tablecloth; talent; talk; taste; tea; teas; telephone; tell; tennis; tenth; thanks; theater; things; think; thought; tickets; time; tiny; tip; titherington; title; toast; toplofty; towels; town; train; travel; tray; trimming; trip; trouble; trousers; trousseau; true; trying; tuesday; turn; turning; type; typical; unable; united; unknown; unusual; useful; ushers; usual; valet; value; variety; vegetables; veil; vestibule; view; visiting; visitor; visits; voice; vulgar; waistcoat; wait; waitress; walk; walking; want; washington; way; wealth; wear; wearing; weather; wedding; week; welcome; white; wide; widow; wife; winter; wise; wish; woman; wonderful; words; work; worldly; worse; wraps; writing; wrong; yard; years; yellow; york; young; young girl; young man; young people; younger; youth; | +; | =; | mr; | | cache: 14314.txt plain text: 14314.txt item: #5 of 32 id: 14408 author: Anonymous title: Manners and Conduct in School and Out date: None words: 5389 flesch: 81 summary: The right kind of girl and boy friendships may give joy for a lifetime; the wrong kind must be a continual menace. 5) Don't be prudes, girls, but let every boy know that he must keep his hands off from you. We earnestly hope this little book may help girls and boys to become happier, more agreeable, and more effective citizens. keywords: assembly; attention; best; body; boys; chaperon; courtesy; dance; duty; face; floor; food; fork; friend; gentle; gentleman; girl; good; habits; hall; hand; heart; help; home; hostess; kind; knife; life; little; lunch; manners; men; older; paper; partner; people; person; place; right; room; school; seat; social; street; table; things; thought; time; walk; want; way; woman cache: 14408.txt plain text: 14408.txt item: #6 of 32 id: 17439 author: Ritter, Thomas Jefferson title: Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada date: None words: 7716 flesch: 57 summary: Skin, Inflammation of the 62 Skin, Inflammation of the (Herb Remedies) 412 Skinner's Dandruff Cure 485 Sleep 603 Sleeplessness 299 Sleeplessness (Herb Remedies} 426, 430, 439 Smallpox, Diagnosis of 4 Smallpox 201 Causes 201 Symptoms 201 Eruptions 201 Confluent Form 201 Varioloid 201 Treatment 202 Diet 202 Nursing 202 General Rule for Disinfection 203 Hands, Body, etc 203 Vaccination and Re-vaccination and its Prevention of Smallpox 203 A Good Time to be Vaccinated 203 Why Vaccinate? Onions and Salt for 681 Snake Bite (Herb Remedies) 434 Soda (Medical Use) 669 Salt Water Bath, Tonic Action 630 Softening of the Brain 298 Soft Diet 644 Soothing Syrup, Overdose of 622 Sore Eyes (Rare Prescription) 470, 549 Mothers' Remedies (Unclassified) 681 1. keywords: abortion; acute; apple; baby; candy; care; causes; cervix; chaperon; children; chocolate; chronic; clean; common; cure; diagnosis; diet; diseases; dress; duties; etiquette; fever; form; furniture; general; girls; good; grape; hair; herb; herb remedies; home; index; inflammation; jam; jelly; kitchen; linen; making; manners; medical; menstruation; method; month; mothers; mourning; mustard; oil; old; paint; peaches; physicians; pickles; poison; poultice; powder; pregnancy; prescription; prevention; quotation; rare; remedies; remedy; salt; second; sewing; simple; smallpox; social; sore; spiced; squint; stage; stains; stomach; sweet; symptoms; table; tea; teeth; throat; time; tincture; tomato; tonic; tonsilitis; tooth; treatment; tuberculosis; tumors; turpentine; ulcer; unclassified; vaccination; vinegar; vomiting; vulva; wash; water; wedding; week; white; womb; worm; wounds cache: 17439.txt plain text: 17439.txt item: #7 of 32 id: 17609 author: Young, John H. title: Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society date: None words: 92605 flesch: 73 summary: Courtesies shown to ladies traveling alone--Duties of an escort--Duties of a lady to her escort--Ladies should assist other ladies traveling alone--The seats to be occupied in a railway car--Discretion to be used in forming acquaintances in traveling 167 CHAPTER XV. RIDING AND DRIVING. Gentlemen cannot be invited without their wives, where other ladies than those of the family are present; nor ladies without their husbands, when other ladies are invited with their husbands. keywords: absent; account; acid; acquaintance; address; affairs; affection; agreeable; altar; american; anniversary; answer; appearance; appropriate; archery; arms; articles; artist; assistance; attempt; attention; away; bad; ball; bath; bear; bearing; beautiful; beauty; best; better; black; blue; bonnet; books; bottle; bow; break; breeding; bridal; bride; bridegroom; bridemaids; bronze; brown; brush; business; callers; calling; calls; cardinal; cards; care; careful; cases; cause; ceremonies; ceremony; certain; change; chapter; character; children; christian; church; circle; circumstances; cities; city; civility; clean; clergyman; close; cloth; cold; collar; color; comfort; common; companion; company; condolence; conduct; confidence; constant; conversation; corner; correct; costume; country; couple; courage; course; courteous; courtesy; crape; crimson; cuffs; culture; custom; customary; cut; daily; dance; dancing; dark; daughter; day; days; dear; death; degree; delicate; desirable; desire; different; dinner; disagreeable; display; domestic; door; drawing; dress; driving; drops; dry; duties; duty; early; ease; easy; education; engaged; engagement; england; english; entertainment; envelope; equal; escort; etiquette; evening; evil; example; excuse; exercise; expression; eyes; face; fact; fail; family; fashion; father; fault; favor; feelings; feet; fine; fingers; fit; flowers; following; follows; food; foot; foreign; fork; form; formal; free; friends; friendship; fruit; funeral; future; game; general; gentleman; giving; glass; gloves; gold; golden; good; gossip; gray; great; greatest; green; guests; habits; hair; half; hand; happiness; happy; harmony; hat; head; health; heart; higher; highest; hold; home; honor; hope; hospitality; hostess; hot; hour; house; household; husband; ignorance; illustration; importance; inconvenience; individual; influence; informal; interest; intimate; introducing; introduction; invitation; jewelry; journey; kind; kindness; knife; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; language; large; late; laws; leave; leaving; left; lemon; length; letters; liberty; life; like; lilac; linen; list; little; lives; long; longer; look; love; making; manners; mark; marriage; married; material; matter; means; meeting; members; memory; men; mention; mere; mind; miss; mix; months; moral; morning; mother; mouth; mrs; music; nails; names; nature; near; necessary; need; neglect; new; note; number; o'clock; object; occasion; occupation; offer; oil; open; opera; opinions; orange; order; ordinary; ounce; page; paper; parents; parties; party; passing; people; perfect; performance; permission; permit; person; personal; piece; pink; pint; place; plain; play; pleasant; pleasing; pleasure; points; politeness; position; possible; practice; precedence; presence; present; presentation; president; previous; private; proper; propriety; public; pure; purple; purpose; quiet; rank; ready; reason; receiving; reception; recognition; red; refusal; refuse; regard; regret; relations; relatives; religious; remedy; reply; requirements; respect; return; rich; riding; right; ring; rise; room; rose; round; rude; rudeness; rules; salutation; scarlet; seat; second; self; sense; servant; services; set; short; silk; silver; similar; size; skin; small; soap; social; society; soft; solution; sons; speaking; special; spirits; stand; standing; state; stranger; street; strong; style; subject; success; sufficient; suit; suitable; suitor; summer; superior; sweet; sympathy; table; talk; taste; tea; teeth; temper; things; thorough; thought; time; title; toilet; tone; training; traveling; treatment; true; united; use; ushers; veil; visit; visitor; vulgar; walking; want; warm; wash; washing; watch; water; way; wear; wedding; week; white; wife; wine; winter; wish; wishes; woman; words; work; world; writer; writing; years; yellow; young; young lady; younger cache: 17609.txt plain text: 17609.txt item: #8 of 32 id: 20470 author: Morton, Agnes H. title: Etiquette date: None words: 41748 flesch: 63 summary: little_ faces. It is not etiquette for the groom to bear any of the expense, except the fee to the clergy man; nor to furnish anything for his own wedding, except the ring and the bouquet for the bride, presents for the brides-maids and best man, and some little token for the ushers. keywords: acquaintance; address; afternoon; agreeable; american; announcement; appropriate; arm; attention; away; ball; banquet; bath; bearing; behavior; best; better; black; board; bow; breakfast; breeding; bride; brief; brilliant; business; calls; card; care; case; centre; ceremony; certain; chaperone; character; children; china; choice; church; circle; circumstances; city; class; clergyman; close; cloth; club; coffee; cold; common; company; conditions; conduct; control; conventional; conversation; corner; correct; country; course; courtesy; cream; crowded; custom; cut; dance; daughter; day; days; deference; delicate; desirable; dessert; different; dignified; dignity; dining; dinner; dishes; display; distinction; dress; dressing; duty; early; easy; effect; effective; effort; elaborate; elderly; elegant; emergency; engraved; entertaining; entertainment; equal; etiquette; evening; example; expression; extreme; eye; eyes; face; fact; family; fancy; far; fashion; fashionable; fingers; flowers; following; fork; form; formal; formality; free; friends; fruits; general; gentleman; gifts; girl; giving; good; gown; graceful; great; greeting; guest; half; hand; handsome; happy; harmony; hat; head; high; hold; home; honor; hospitality; hostess; hot; hour; house; household; husband; idea; ill; important; individual; informal; interest; introduction; invitations; kind; known; ladies; lady; large; late; law; laws; leave; leaving; left; liable; liberty; life; like; limited; linen; list; little; long; look; lower; luncheon; man; manner; marriage; matter; means; meet; men; message; messenger; mind; mother; mourning; mrs; music; names; napkin; nature; near; necessary; need; neglect; new; note; number; o'clock; occasion; offer; office; old; opportunity; order; owner; parents; particular; parties; party; paying; people; perfect; personal; piece; place; plain; plates; pleasant; pleasure; points; polite; possible; post; presence; present; pretty; private; proper; propriety; public; purpose; quality; quiet; rank; rare; ready; reason; receiving; reception; refined; regard; relative; reply; request; respect; return; rich; right; room; rude; rule; safe; salad; seat; self; sense; separate; servant; service; serving; set; sidewalk; silver; similar; small; social; society; solid; space; special; speech; spirit; stand; standing; stranger; street; style; subject; suit; supper; table; taste; tea; theatre; things; thoughtful; time; title; town; training; trouble; true; usage; use; usual; value; visiting; visits; walking; water; way; ways; wedding; white; wife; wine; woman; words; work; world; year; young; younger cache: 20470.txt plain text: 20470.txt item: #9 of 32 id: 22222 author: Crowther, Mary Owens title: How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence date: None words: 54161 flesch: 76 summary: Inside address (Always used in business letters but omitted in social and friendly letters) 3. In business letters the forms of salutation in common use are: Dear Sir, Gentlemen, Dear Madam, and Mesdames. keywords: able; account; acknowledgment; address; affairs; afternoon; announcement; answer; application; april; asking; attention; august; avenue; bad; baltimore; bank; best; birthday; black; body; book; boston; brewster; bride; brothers; brown; burroughs; business; business letter; card; care; case; cash; certain; chapter; character; charge; charles; check; chicago; child; christmas; church; circular; circumstances; city; class; close; co.; collection; coming; common; company; complimentary; condolence; congratulations; considerable; contract; copyright; correct; correspondence; cost; country; course; courtesy; credit; crests; customer; date; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; dear madam; dear miss; dear mrs; dear sir; death; december; delay; department; desire; dinner; doctor; dollars; dorothy; doubleday; east; easter; elliott; engagement; engraved; envelope; esq; evans; evening; expense; experience; fact; family; farm; father; favor; february; fifth; firm; following; formal; forms; fourth; friday; friend; general; gentlemen; george; gift; giving; glad; good; great; half; hand; handwritten; happiness; happy; heading; health; heartiest; help; henry; high; home; honour; hope; hostess; hotel; house; husband; idea; ill; illustration; important; inch; individual; informal; information; inquiry; inside; interest; introduction; invitation; james; january; john; john evans; jones; july; june; katherine; kind; kindly; large; law; left; legal; letter; letterheads; life; like; line; list; little; long; love; luncheon; madam; madison; mail; main; making; man; manager; march; marriage; mary; mass; matter; merry; messrs; mind; miss; monday; money; monograms; months; morning; mother; mrs; national; necessary; need; new; new york; note; november; number; o'clock; october; offer; office; official; old; open; opportunity; order; page; paper; paragraphs; park; particular; party; past; pay; people; person; personal; philip; place; plan; pleasure; point; position; possible; present; president; previous; price; private; property; public; question; reader; real; reason; reception; recipient; regret; reply; request; results; return; reverend; right; rooms; routine; ruth; safe; sale; salutation; samuel; saturday; school; second; secretary; selling; sending; september; service; set; sheet; signature; single; sir; size; small; smith; social; sons; sorrow; sort; special; specimens; state; statement; stationery; store; street; subject; success; supply; sympathy; taste; telephone; tell; terms; thanks; things; thought; thursday; time; title; town; trent; trouble; trust; tuesday; type; unable; use; visit; want; way; wedding; wednesday; week; wells; west; white; william; wishes; woman; words; work; writer; writing; y. dear; years; york; young cache: 22222.txt plain text: 22222.txt item: #10 of 32 id: 22417 author: Ordway, Edith B. (Edith Bertha) title: The Etiquette of To-day date: None words: 52914 flesch: 67 summary: She will not, even in her own room, make such noise as will attract attention or disturb other guests. The young woman should be careful not to permit her fiancé to take her away in a corner from other guests for a long time, and he should remember to do his social duty by other young ladies present, even if he wishes to devote himself to one. keywords: acquaintance; address; afternoon; aisle; amusement; announcement; appropriate; attention; attitude; beauty; best; black; body; book; bow; breakfast; bridal; bride; bridegroom; bridesmaids; brief; broken; business; butante; calling; calls; card; care; carriages; case; ceremonious; ceremony; certain; chance; chaperon; chapter; character; charm; child; children; church; circle; circumstances; city; clergyman; close; club; coat; coffee; comfort; common; company; conduct; consideration; conversation; corner; correct; correspondence; country; couple; course; courteous; courtesy; custom; customary; cut; dance; dancing; date; daughter; day; days; dear; desires; dining; dinner; door; drawing; dress; duties; duty; early; effort; elaborate; emergency; engagement; english; engraved; entertaining; entertainment; envelope; equal; etiquette; evening; expression; family; father; favor; fine; flag; flowers; following; food; fork; form; formal; friends; friendship; fruit; functions; funeral; general; gentleman; gift; girl; giving; gloves; good; gown; great; group; guest; half; hand; happiness; happy; hat; head; high; home; home wedding; honor; hospitality; hostess; hotel; hour; house; household; human; husband; ill; important; inch; individual; informal; interest; intimate; introduction; invitation; ladies; lady; large; later; leave; leaving; left; letter; life; like; linen; little; long; luncheon; maid; man; marriage; married; matter; meal; means; meeting; members; men; moment; money; mother; mourning; mrs; mutual; napkin; near; necessary; need; new; note; number; o'clock; obligations; observance; occasion; office; old; open; opportunity; order; paper; parents; parties; party; people; period; permissible; permit; person; personal; personality; place; plain; play; pleasure; position; possible; post; preferable; presence; present; president; private; procession; proper; provide; public; quiet; rank; real; reason; reception; refreshments; regard; relative; reply; request; respect; return; right; room; rule; safe; sake; salutation; school; seat; seated; second; self; sending; sense; servants; service; set; signature; silver; simple; single; size; small; social; society; sort; soup; special; spirit; spoon; stand; standing; states; stay; street; style; suit; sympathy; table; talk; taste; tea; things; thought; time; title; traveling; true; type; united; use; ushers; usual; visit; wardrobe; way; wear; wedding; white; wife; wise; wish; wishes; woman; words; work; worth; writing; year; young cache: 22417.txt plain text: 22417.txt item: #11 of 32 id: 23025 author: Henney, Nella Braddy title: The Book of Business Etiquette date: None words: 65452 flesch: 74 summary: At the same time he must protect himself and other business men from incompetent, weak, or vicious employees. Numbers of our magazines--and they are as good an index as we have to the feeling of the general public--are given over completely to the service or the entertainment of business men (the T. B. M.) and an astonishing amount of space is devoted to them in most of the others. keywords: ability; account; accustomed; address; advertising; advice; american; angry; answer; appearance; appointment; atmosphere; attention; attitude; authority; bad; bank; bear; bed; beginning; behavior; bell; best; big; big business; book; boy; boys; bread; brief; brown; building; business house; business letter; business man; business office; busy; busy man; caller; calling; calls; card; care; careful; case; certain; chair; chance; character; charge; chief; circumstances; city; clean; clerk; close; clothes; comfortable; common; company; concern; conditions; conductor; connection; conversation; correct; country; course; courteous; courtesy; credit; customer; day; days; deal; department; desk; different; difficult; dining; dinner; discourtesy; dollars; door; doubt; dress; dressed; early; easier; easy; efficient; effort; employees; employer; end; etiquette; excellent; exceptions; executive; experience; face; fact; fair; father; fault; feeling; feet; firm; foolish; fork; form; friend; general; gentleman; girl; good; good man; good manners; good work; great; greater; group; guest; habit; half; hand; happy; hard; head; help; high; hold; home; hopkins; host; hours; house; human; hundreds; hurry; idea; important; information; inside; instance; institution; intelligent; interested; interesting; interview; job; kind; lady; large; later; lawyer; leaves; left; letter; life; like; likely; line; little; lives; living; long; look; lunch; magazine; mail; making; man; management; manager; manners; material; matter; mcadoo; means; men; methods; middle; mind; minutes; mistake; moment; money; morning; mrs; names; natural; necessary; need; new; number; offer; office; old; old man; ones; open; operator; order; organization; outside; papers; past; pay; people; perfect; person; personal; personality; place; pleasant; pleasure; point; policy; polite; politeness; poor; position; possible; practice; present; president; pretty; problem; prospect; public; purpose; qualities; questions; quick; railroad; ready; real; reason; reception; red; regular; responsibility; rest; result; right; road; room; rude; rudeness; rule; salary; salesman; salesmanship; school; second; secretaries; secretary; self; sell; selling; sense; service; set; shop; simple; small; smile; social; sort; space; special; spirit; spite; standard; state; store; stories; straight; subject; subscriber; success; successful; superior; sure; switchboard; table; talk; telephone; temper; things; think; thought; time; town; trade; train; training; trouble; true; trust; truth; turn; united; valuable; value; visitor; voice; wait; waiter; want; war; way; ways; wear; white; wife; wire; wise; woman; words; work; working; world; worth; writing; wrong; years; york; young man; youngster cache: 23025.txt plain text: 23025.txt item: #12 of 32 id: 26597 author: Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) title: How to Behave: A Pocket Manual of Republican Etiquette, and Guide to Correct Personal Habits Embracing an Exposition of the Principles of Good Manners; Useful Hints on the Care of the Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-culture, and Behavior at Home; the Etiquette of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, the Street, the Church, Places of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., with Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies date: None words: 52042 flesch: 71 summary: _Hot_ biscuits; _hot_ griddle cakes, saturated with butter and Stuart's syrup; and _hot_ coffee, scarcely modified at all by the small quantity of milk usually added, are among the most deleterious articles ever put upon a table. If a gentleman offers to dance with a lady, she should not refuse, unless for some _particular_ and _valid_ reason, in which case she can accept the next offer. keywords: 12mo; 25c; absurd; acquaintance; action; addition; address; affairs; age; agreeable; aid; american; amusement; appetite; arm; art; attention; author; awkward; bad; beautiful; beauty; behavior; best; better; black; body; book; bow; bread; breeding; broadway; business; calls; card; care; careful; carriage; case; cents; ceremony; certain; change; chapter; character; children; choice; church; circumstances; city; civility; claim; clean; cloth; clothes; co.; code; colors; common; company; complete; conduct; conversation; costume; country; course; courtesy; cultivation; culture; cure; custom; dance; dancing; dark; day; debate; deference; desire; development; diet; different; dinner; directions; disagreeable; diseases; doubt; dress; dressed; drink; drinking; duties; duty; eating; education; effect; elder; england; english; entitled; equal; essential; etiquette; evening; excellent; exercise; experience; extra; eye; face; fact; faculties; family; fashion; fashionable; fear; feelings; feet; fellow; fine; fit; following; food; fork; formal; forms; fowler; free; french; friend; general; gentleman; genuine; gloves; good; good manners; grace; graceful; great; greek; guests; guide; habits; hair; half; hand; happiness; harmony; hat; head; health; heart; high; highest; hints; home; honor; hope; house; household; human; husband; hygiene; hygienic; illustrated; illustrations; important; improvement; individual; intellectual; intercourse; interest; intimate; introduction; john; journal; ladies; lady; language; large; laws; leave; letters; liable; life; like; little; long; look; looking; love; m.d; mail; making; man; manners; manual; matter; means; member; men; mental; mere; mind; mode; moral; morning; mother; motion; mrs; natural; nature; necessary; need; new; notes; number; observances; occasion; offer; oil; old; open; opinion; order; ordinary; organs; original; pages; painter; paper; parents; particular; parties; party; people; perfect; perfection; person; personal; philosophy; phrenological; phrenology; physical; physiognomy; physiology; piece; place; plain; pleasure; point; politeness; position; possible; practical; practice; presence; present; price; principles; proper; public; publishers; pure; purpose; qualities; question; rank; reader; real; reason; relation; required; respect; rest; right; room; rude; rule; school; science; scrub; seat; self; sense; served; set; sex; shoes; short; simple; sister; size; small; social; society; speaking; special; spirit; standing; state; street; study; style; subject; superior; system; table; taste; teeth; things; thought; time; titles; tobacco; training; treatment; true; usage; useful; valuable; value; visits; volume; vulgar; walking; want; warm; water; way; wear; weather; wells; white; wife; woman; word; work; worth; years; york; young cache: 26597.txt plain text: 26597.txt item: #13 of 32 id: 28998 author: Cooke, Maud C. title: Social Life; or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society date: None words: 153333 flesch: 72 summary: Daughters of the hostess should not repeatedly appear upon the floor while other lady guests are neglected. fiancé's_ showing the same attention to other ladies that she, in her turn, is willing to accept from other gentlemen, and she should take the same pains to please his taste in trifles that he does to gratify her slightest wish. keywords: absence; acceptance; accepted; account; acquaintance; acquainted; action; adding; addition; address; advance; advantage; affair; afternoon; agreeable; aisle; amber; american; amusement; anniversaries; anniversary; announcement; annoyance; answer; apparent; appearance; appropriate; apt; arms; arrangements; arrival; articles; artistic; assistance; attention; attractive; awkward; baby; bad; ball; baskets; bear; beautiful; beauty; beginning; believe; best; beware; bicycle; bill; bits; black; blossoms; blue; board; body; bonnets; book; bouillon; bow; bowl; boxes; boys; brass; breach; bread; breakfast; breathing; breeding; bridal; bride; bridemaids; brilliant; broken; bronze; brown; brush; business; butter; cabinet; cakes; calling; calls; cards; care; careful; carriages; carrying; case; center; ceremonious; ceremony; certain; chairs; change; chaperon; character; charming; cheese; chicken; chief; children; china; chocolate; choice; christening; church; circle; circumstances; cities; city; claret; clear; close; cloth; club; coat; code; coffee; cold; color; colored; comfort; coming; command; common; company; complete; complexion; compliment; conclusion; conduct; congress; consideration; contents; contrast; control; convenient; conversation; converse; cool; corner; correct; correspondence; costume; country; couple; course; courtesy; courtship; cover; cranston; cream; cultivate; culture; cup; cups; custom; cut; daily; dainty; dance; dancing; danger; dark; date; daughter; day; days; dear; death; december; decline; decorations; deep; degree; delicate; 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future; game; garden; gathering; general; gentleman; george; german; gifts; girl; giving; glass; glasses; gloves; god; gold; golden; good; gown; grace; graceful; gracious; grant; gray; great; greater; greatest; green; group; guests; habit; hair; half; hall; hand; handle; handsome; happiness; happy; hard; harmonizes; harmony; hat; hats; head; health; heart; heavy; help; high; highest; hill; hold; home; honor; honored; hope; hostess; hostesses; hot; hotel; hour; house; household; husband; ices; idea; illustration; important; inches; individual; informal; information; initials; instance; intended; interest; intimate; introduction; invitations; invited; january; jewels; john; judges; july; june; keeping; kind; kindly; knife; knives; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; large; lawn; laws; lead; leave; leaving; left; lemon; length; letter; life; like; line; lips; list; literary; little; long; longer; look; loose; lovely; loving; luncheon; mail; making; manner; march; mark; marked; marriage; married; material; matinée; matter; meal; means; measure; meat; meet; meeting; members; men; mention; menu; mere; method; mind; minutes; miss; mistake; mistress; modern; moment; money; morning; mother; motion; mouth; mrs; muscles; music; musical; mutual; nails; names; napkin; narrow; natural; nature; near; neat; necessary; necessity; neck; need; new; note; notice; november; number; o'clock; object; occasion; october; offer; office; old; olives; ones; open; opera; opinion; opportunity; opposite; orange; order; ordinary; ornamental; outer; outside; oysters; page; pair; pale; paper; parents; parlor; particular; parties; partners; party; passing; past; pearls; people; perfect; permissible; permit; person; personal; phrase; physical; piano; pictures; piece; pillow; pink; place; plain; plates; play; playing; pleasant; pleased; pleasing; pleasure; point; polite; politeness; popular; portion; position; possession; possible; power; practice; presence; present; preserve; president; pretty; previous; price; printed; private; privilege; professional; program; proper; public; pure; purple; purpose; quality; question; quick; quiet; r.s.v.p; readiness; ready; real; reason; receiving; reception; recognition; red; reference; refreshments; refusal; regard; regret; regular; relations; relative; remarks; rendering; repast; reply; repose; request; requires; respect; respectfully; rest; result; return; ribbon; rich; richard; riding; right; rise; roast; robe; roe; roof; room; roses; round; rule; russell; salad; salt; salutation; sandwiches; satin; satisfactory; saucer; save; saying; scarf; school; seat; seated; second; selection; self; sending; sense; separate; servant; service; serving; set; sets; shades; shape; shoes; short; shoulders; sides; silence; silk; silver; simple; simplest; single; sister; sitting; size; skin; skirt; sleeve; slender; slight; slightest; small; smaller; smile; smith; social; society; soft; soirée; sorrow; soul; soup; space; special; spirit; spoon; spread; square; stand; standing; state; stay; step; stout; stranger; street; strong; study; style; subject; success; sufficient; sugar; suitable; summer; supper; supposed; surface; sweet; sympathy; system; table; tact; talk; taste; tea; teas; temper; term; thanks; theater; things; thought; throat; thursday; time; tints; tiny; titles; toilet; tone; tongue; topics; touch; town; train; trouble; true; truth; tuesday; type; united; unmarried; use; useful; ushers; usual; valuable; value; variety; vegetables; veil; view; visiting; visitors; visits; voice; waist; walking; wall; want; warm; washington; watch; water; way; ways; wear; wearer; wearing; wedding; wednesday; weeks; weight; wheel; white; wide; wife; window; wine; wise; wish; woman; wood; words; work; world; worn; worth; writer; writing; written; years; yellow; york; young; young ladies; young lady cache: 28998.txt plain text: 28998.txt item: #14 of 32 id: 32227 author: Field, Chester title: The Cynic's Rules of Conduct date: None words: 2481 flesch: 79 summary: [Illustration] Don't forget to tell her that she's not like other girls. [Illustration] Remember, too, that perhaps you are not the sort of husband that Father used to make. keywords: altar; blow; bride; business; conduct; cynic; difference; father; form; friends; gentleman; girl; gold; good; hat; husband; illustration; kind; lady; law; man; marriage; money; mother; ones; race; rules; servants; small; society; use; wedding; wife; women cache: 32227.txt plain text: 32227.txt item: #15 of 32 id: 33188 author: Wiggin, Edith E. title: Lessons on Manners for School and Home Use date: None words: 18862 flesch: 79 summary: IT is true that good manners, like good morals, are best taught by the teacher's example. Children that come from homes where good manners are taught and practised, will be glad to repeat the precepts of politeness learned in the home circle; and those less favored will not want to be behind in this hitherto unstudied branch. keywords: 12mo; 16mo; 8vo; adventures; aged; american; amusement; answer; article; attention; attractive; author; behavior; best; better; blackboard; boards; book; booksellers; boston; boy; boys; breeding; business; careful; cars; cents; children; church; close; cloth; company; conduct; courtesy; day; door; dress; eating; edition; english; evening; family; folks; french; friend; general; gentleman; george; girl; glass; good; good manners; great; hand; haste; help; history; home; illustrated; illustrations; interested; interesting; ladies; lady; late; laughing; leave; leaving; lee; lesson; life; like; little; long; looking; mail; manners; matter; miss; mistakes; mother; mrs; nature; necessary; net; new; old; older; open; outline; paper; parents; people; person; pictures; place; play; politeness; popular; possible; price; proper; public; publishers; questions; reader; reading; reason; receipt; remarks; respect; right; room; rude; rule; saying; scholars; school; seats; service; shepard; sisters; small; society; speaking; stories; story; strangers; street; table; talking; teacher; things; time; travel; true; turn; use; visitors; volume; waiting; want; way; window; wish; work; world; worth; years; young cache: 33188.txt plain text: 33188.txt item: #16 of 32 id: 33716 author: Anonymous title: Manners and Rules of Good Society; Or, Solecisms to be Avoided date: None words: 76316 flesch: 71 summary: This custom of turning down a corner of a visiting card signifies that other ladies of the family besides the hostess are included in the call. A gentleman should not turn down a corner of his card, even though he may be acquainted with other ladies of the family besides the mistress of the house. keywords: account; acquaintance; acquainted; act; addition; address; afternoon; amusement; answer; arm; army; arranged; arrival; attendance; bachelor; ball; best; black; bow; bowing; breakfast; bridal; bride; bridegroom; bridesmaids; brother; calling; calls; cards; case; centre; ceremony; certain; chamberlain; chapter; charity; children; christening; christian; church; circle; circumstances; classes; cloth; coffee; comers; company; considerable; consideration; contrary; convenient; conversation; corner; correct; country; couple; course; court; custom; cut; dance; dancing; date; daughters; day; days; departure; desire; dessert; dining; dinner; door; drawing; dress; driving; dukes; early; eldest; engaged; engagement; england; english; enter; entertainment; entitled; equal; etiquette; evening; excellency; fact; family; fashion; fashionable; father; favour; fish; flowers; follow; following; foreign; fork; form; friendly; friends; fruit; game; garden; gatherings; general; gentlemen; giver; giving; gloves; good; grand; great; guests; half; hall; hand; handed; hats; head; health; highest; home; hostess; hour; house; household; hunting; husband; imperative; individual; instance; intimate; introduction; invitations; kind; king; knife; knights; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; lady patronesses; ladyship; large; late; lead; leave; leaving; left; length; levée; lieutenant; like; list; little; london; long; longer; lord; luncheon; madame; majesties; majesty; majority; man; manner; marriage; married; married lady; matter; means; members; military; minutes; mistress; moment; monsieur; months; mother; motor; mourning; mrs; mutual; names; near; necessary; new; notice; number; o'clock; occasion; offer; office; officers; official; oftener; old; open; opportunity; optional; order; page; parents; particular; parties; partners; party; pass; patronesses; people; period; person; place; pleasure; point; popular; position; possible; precedence; presence; present; presentation; previous; prince; princess; principal; private; privilege; proper; public; purpose; queen; question; rank; reason; received; reception; refreshments; regards; relatives; request; residents; return; riding; right; ring; room; round; royal; rule; save; saying; seat; seated; second; servant; service; shake; shooting; short; silk; silver; sir; small; smith; social; society; sons; soup; sovereign; space; special; spoon; standing; state; stewards; style; subscription; sufficient; surname; syllable; table; taking; tea; tickets; time; title; town; train; understood; unmarried; upper; usual; viceregal; visiting; visitor; waiting; walking; way; wear; wedding; weeks; white; widow; wife; wine; wish; wishes; wives; words; work; worn; year; young; young ladies; young lady; younger; | |; |accent cache: 33716.txt plain text: 33716.txt item: #17 of 32 id: 34200 author: Bates, Loïs title: Story Lessons on Character-Building (Morals) and Manners date: None words: 39573 flesch: 91 summary: Little child with eyes so blue, What has mother done for you? Taught your little feet to stand, Led you gently by the hand, Perhaps you think it is only grown-up people who can be brave, but that is not so; little children can be brave also, as you will see from this story of a little boy, about whom we read in the papers not long ago, and who lived not far from London. keywords: afraid; alec; answer; ashamed; auntie; baby; bad; beautiful; best; better; bird; blackboard; book; box; boy; boys; brave; captain; care; carriage; character; cherry; children; christmas; clean; country; course; daisy; davie; day; dear; dinner; dog; door; dora; dress; elsie; end; eyes; face; fairies; fairy; father; feet; floor; fond; footnote; games; garden; gentleman; girl; glad; gold; good; great; handkerchief; hands; hard; head; help; home; hope; horse; jack; kind; kindness; lady; large; left; lesson; like; lilie; little; little boy; little girl; long; look; lovely; lulu; mabel; man; manners; master; means; men; milk; morning; mother; mouth; nails; near; nice; noticed; old; open; paper; party; people; place; playing; pocket; poor; present; pretty; prize; pure; queen; ready; rest; right; road; room; rose; round; rude; school; sea; seat; selfish; ship; sorry; speak; spoilt; stones; story; street; sure; sweet; table; teacher; temple; thank; things; thinking; thought; thoughtful; time; tiny; train; trouble; true; truth; try; turn; unhappy; untruth; use; voice; walking; want; watch; water; way; window; wings; woman; wool; word; work; wrong; years; you= cache: 34200.txt plain text: 34200.txt item: #18 of 32 id: 35123 author: Hartley, Florence title: The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society date: None words: 87016 flesch: 71 summary: Yet, in spite of the universal need, and almost universal habit, there are really but very few persons who write a _good_ letter; a letter that is, at the same time long enough to interest, yet not long enough to tire; sufficiently condensed to keep the attention, and not tedious, and yet detailed enough to afford satisfaction; that is correct in grammatical construction, properly punctuated, written in a clear, legible hand, with the date, address, signature, all in the proper place, no words whose letters stand in utter defiance to spelling-book rules; in short, a well-written letter. One good rule can be always followed by young ladies; to converse with a lady friend as if there were gentlemen present, and to converse with a gentleman as if in the room with other ladies. keywords: acquaintance; action; address; advantage; agreeable; almonds; amusement; answer; appearance; arms; arrangement; article; attention; awkward; bad; ball; ball room; bath; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; best; black; blue; body; boiling; bonnet; book; bottle; bow; bread; breakfast; breeding; bride; brush; business; callers; calls; cap; card; careful; carriage; case; centre; certain; chain; change; chapter; character; cheerful; children; church; circumstances; city; clean; cloak; close; cloth; clothes; cold; collar; color; comfort; common; companion; company; conduct; confidence; consideration; conspicuous; conversation; converse; cool; correct; correspondence; costume; country; course; courtesy; cover; crape; cream; cut; daily; dance; dancing; dark; day; days; decline; deep; degree; delicate; deportment; desire; details; different; difficult; dinner; directions; dish; display; domestic; door; doubt; drachm; drawing; dress; dresses; dressing; drops; dry; duties; duty; early; ease; easy; education; effect; effort; elegant; endeavor; engagement; equal; escort; etiquette; evening; evil; excellent; exercise; extreme; eyes; face; fair; fall; familiar; family; fancy; fashion; father; favor; feelings; feet; figures; fine; fingers; finished; fire; fit; flannel; flowers; following; food; foot; form; forward; frame; french; fresh; friend; fruit; general; gentleman; german; girl; glass; gloves; good; graceful; great; green; guests; habit; hair; half; hand; happiness; happy; hard; head; health; heart; high; hints; hold; home; hospitality; hostess; hotel; hour; house; household; human; husband; ill; important; information; insult; interest; interesting; introduce; invitation; iron; judgment; juice; keeping; kind; kindness; knife; knit; knitting; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; language; large; late; lead; leave; leaving; left; lemon; letter; life; light; like; linen; literature; little; long; look; loud; love; manner; married; material; matter; means; mere; milk; mind; minutes; miss; mix; mixture; mode; morning; mortar; mother; mouth; mrs; music; muslin; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; needle; new; note; notice; number; object; occasion; offer; oil; ones; open; opera; opinion; order; otto; ounces; paper; parents; parlor; parties; partner; party; pass; passing; pattern; pearl; people; perfect; person; personal; piano; picture; piece; place; plain; play; pleasant; pleasure; point; politeness; poor; position; possible; power; practice; present; pretty; private; proper; propriety; public; pure; purpose; question; quiet; reach; reading; ready; real; reason; reception; regard; remarks; removed; repeat; request; respect; return; ribbon; rich; rise; room; root; rose; round; row_--knit; rows; rude; rudeness; rule; run; salt; seat; seated; second; self; sense; servants; service; set; shawl; sheet; short; silence; silk; simple; skin; sleeves; small; smooth; soap; social; society; soft; sorrow; speak; spermaceti; spirits; spoon; stand; standing; state; stitches; strain; stranger; street; strong; study; style; subject; suffering; sufficient; suitable; summer; supper; sympathy; table; taking; talk; tartar; taste; tea; thin; things; time; tone; tooth; traveling; trimmed; trouble; true; use; useful; usual; veil; velvet; visit; voice; vulgar; waiters; walk; walking; want; wardrobe; warm; wash; washing; water; wax; way; wear; wedding; wet; white; windows; wine; winter; wishes; women; wool; words; work; world; worse; writing; wrong; years; young cache: 35123.txt plain text: 35123.txt item: #19 of 32 id: 35761 author: Cone, John A. (John Albert) title: The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms date: None words: 27245 flesch: 72 summary: Few persons try as he did to acquire that power, but because the average man cannot at once exercise that potent influence over others which he did, it does not follow that we are unable to understand the secret of Burr's success, nor is it evident that other men cannot acquire something of this power by thinking it worth while to do so. Other men of less ability, but with more tact, soon outstrip him in the race for public favor. keywords: ability; accomplishment; account; acquaintances; address; advice; agreeable; appearance; art; attention; attractive; average; bad; beautiful; beauty; best; better; blaine; breeding; bright; burr; business; care; careful; careless; cause; certain; charm; clear; clothes; comfort; common; company; compliment; contact; conversation; courtesies; courtesy; culture; day; defects; degree; desire; different; disagreeable; dreams; dress; dressed; ease; easy; effect; effort; emerson; english; equal; expression; extent; eyes; face; fact; familiar; fascinating; fashion; fault; feelings; fine; form; fresh; friends; gentleman; gift; girl; good; gown; grace; graceful; great; greater; greek; habit; half; handsome; happiness; happy; head; health; heart; help; herald; high; hold; home; human; idea; ill; importance; individual; influence; intelligent; intercourse; interest; interesting; kind; knowledge; lack; lady; language; life; likely; listener; little; long; look; love; magnetic; making; man; manner; material; matter; means; men; mental; mere; mind; mother; music; natural; nature; neatness; necessary; need; new; old; opinions; people; perfection; person; personal; physical; place; plain; pleasant; pleasing; pleasure; point; politeness; popular; position; possible; power; praise; pretty; public; qualities; quality; reason; refinement; regard; room; school; secret; self; sense; sex; short; small; social; society; soul; speaking; speech; spirit; spite; story; study; subject; success; sweet; sympathy; tact; talk; talking; taste; temper; things; thought; time; tone; training; true; truth; use; value; voice; way; wife; wishes; woman; wonder; words; work; world; writer; writing; years; young; young man; youth cache: 35761.txt plain text: 35761.txt item: #20 of 32 id: 35975 author: Watson, Lillian Eichler title: Book of Etiquette, Volume I date: None words: 76122 flesch: 70 summary: Nor can we be original to the extent that we do not follow the rules of etiquette regarding correct forms for social cards. The ordinary visiting card is used, with the letters P.P.C. written in pencil or ink in one corner, indicating the departure and so differentiating it from other cards. keywords: ------------+-------------+----------+----------+-------------+---------; acceptance; acknowledgment; acquaintances; address; affair; afternoon; agreeable; altar; america; anniversary; announcement; answer; appearance; appropriate; april; attention; bad; ball; bearers; bearing; beautiful; bereaved; best; birthday; black; book; border; boy; breakfast; breeding; bridal; bride; bridesmaids; brother; brown; business; cake; caller; calling; calls; card; care; careful; case; ceremonies; ceremony; certain; chance; chaperon; chapter; charge; charming; child; children; christening; christian; church; church wedding; circumstances; city; clergyman; close; clothes; color; company; complete; conditions; condolence; conduct; confidence; congratulation; conversation; cordial; corner; correct; correspondence; country; couple; course; courteous; courtesy; crêpe; culture; custom; customary; dance; dancing; date; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; dear mrs; death; deceased; deep; definite; delightful; desire; details; dignified; dignity; dinner; display; door; doubt; drawing; duties; duty; early; ease; effort; elaborate; elderly; embarrassment; engagement; entertainment; envelope; etiquette; evening; expression; face; fact; families; family; far; fashionable; father; feeling; fifth; flowers; following; forget; form; formal; friday; friendliness; friendly; friends; friendship; funeral; future; garden; general; gentleman; gifts; girl; giving; golden; good; good form; gown; grace; gray; great; grief; group; guests; half; hall; hand; happiness; happy; harris; head; helen; henry; home; home day; home wedding; honor; hope; hospitality; hostess; hour; house; husband; ill; immediate; important; impressive; inches; informal; inquiry; instance; intimate; introducing; introduction; invitation; john; jones; june; kind; known; ladies; lady; large; later; laws; leave; leaving; left; length; letter; life; like; little; long; lord; love; luncheon; maid; man; manners; marriage; married; material; matron; matter; means; members; men; method; mind; miss; months; mother; mourning; mrs; music; names; natural; nature; necessary; need; new; note; number; o'clock; occasion; offer; office; old; older; open; ordinary; outfit; pall; paper; parents; particular; parties; party; past; people; perfect; permissible; person; personal; place; plain; pleasure; polite; poor; possible; presence; present; pretty; private; privilege; professional; proper; public; purpose; question; quiet; reason; receiving; reception; regard; regret; relatives; reply; request; respect; return; ribbon; right; ring; robert; room; rose; rules; second; self; servant; services; set; short; silver; similar; simple; simplicity; sincere; sir; sister; size; small; smile; smith; social; social calls; social card; social letter; society; sorrow; special; speech; spirit; stationery; story; stranger; street; success; sufficient; sympathy; table; taking; taste; tea; tenth; theater; things; thursday; time; title; town; train; tray; trousseau; true; tuesday; unmarried; use; ushers; usual; veil; visit; want; way; wear; wedding; wedding day; wedding invitation; weeks; welcome; white; widow; wife; wise; wishes; woman; words; world; worth; writing; year; york; young; young girl; young lady; young man; | ------------+-------------+----------+----------+-------------+---------; | |; |believe; |obedient; |remain; |the; |to; |yours cache: 35975.txt plain text: 35975.txt item: #21 of 32 id: 36048 author: Martine, Arthur title: Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness date: None words: 49793 flesch: 67 summary: Be careful never to look back, nor to observe too narrowly the dresses of such ladies as may pass you. On the other hand, no lady, however numerous the solicitations of her admirers, should consent to dance repeatedly, when, by so doing, she excludes other ladies from participating in the same amusement; still less, as we have elsewhere hinted, should she dance exclusively with the same gentleman, to the disadvantage of others. keywords: absent; account; acquaintance; advantage; affectation; agreeable; answer; appearance; arm; article; ask; assembly; attempt; attention; bad; ball; behavior; best; better; bone; books; bow; breach; breast; breeding; bride; business; calls; card; care; careful; carriage; carver; carving; case; center; ceremony; certain; chair; chance; character; chesterfield; children; church; circle; coat; common; company; conduct; conversation; country; course; courtesy; custom; customary; cut; cutting; dance; dancing; day; degree; desire; different; difficult; dinner; disagreeable; discourse; dish; display; domestic; door; drawing; dress; dressed; dressing; easy; etiquette; evening; excellent; fact; family; fashion; fat; father; feeling; fine; fingers; fish; fork; form; friend; general; gentleman; giving; glass; good; graceful; great; guests; habits; half; hand; happiness; hat; head; heart; hold; home; honor; hostess; hour; house; husband; ignorance; ignorant; ill; importance; intimate; introduction; invitation; kind; knife; ladies; lady; large; leave; left; leg; letters; life; like; likely; little; long; look; love; making; manner; married; master; means; men; mind; miss; mother; mouth; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; neglect; new; object; occasions; occur; offensive; offer; old; opinion; opportunity; order; ordinary; particular; parties; partner; party; people; person; pieces; place; pleasant; pleased; pleasing; pleasure; point; politeness; position; possible; practice; presence; present; private; proper; propriety; public; reason; regard; request; respect; rest; right; rise; room; round; rude; rules; said; saying; seat; self; sense; servant; set; short; shoulder; showing; silence; sir; slices; slight; small; social; society; soup; spoon; stand; stranger; street; subject; sufficient; sure; table; talk; taste; temper; things; thought; time; tone; trouble; true; truth; turn; visit; visitor; voice; vulgar; vulgarity; walk; want; way; wedding; wife; wine; wish; wishes; wit; woman; words; world; young; young lady cache: 36048.txt plain text: 36048.txt item: #22 of 32 id: 36664 author: Burgess, Gelett title: Goops and How to Be Them date: None words: 2749 flesch: 85 summary: St. Nicholas, _and are here reprinted by permission of the_ Century Company. [Illustration: Introduction] _INTRODUCTION_ Let me introduce a Race Void of Beauty and of Grace, Extraordinary Creatures With a Paucity of Features. keywords: adolphus; bed; better; books; cry; doll; father; floor; george; goops; hint; illustration; little; manners; memory; mother; play; politeness; sure; table; tease; time; toys cache: 36664.txt plain text: 36664.txt item: #23 of 32 id: 39005 author: Conkling, Margaret C. (Margaret Cockburn) title: The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews date: None words: 118541 flesch: 59 summary: Wit_, _humor_, and _playfulness_ are its proper embellishments, and _variety_ should characterize its themes. They only are _educated_, who have acquired that self-knowledge and self-discipline which inspire a _disinterested love of our fellow-beings, a reverence for Truth_--in the largest sense of the term--_and the power of habitually exalting the higher faculties over the animal propensities of our nature_. keywords: abstract; accomplished; accomplishments; accustomed; acquaintance; acquisition; action; addition; address; admiration; admissible; adoption; advance; advantage; advice; affairs; affection; afraid; agreeable; aid; alloway; american; amiable; amusement; anecdote; answer; apartment; apology; appearance; appointment; appropriate; arm; arms; arrival; artist; aside; assist; assistance; assumption; assurance; attendance; attention; attributes; author; authority; bad; ball; bath; bearing; beautiful; beauty; belle; benefit; benton; best; black; blue; body; book; boots; bow; box; boy; boys; bred; breeding; brief; broad; broken; brother; brown; business; busy; byron; capacity; card; care; career; careful; carriage; cars; case; celebrated; ceremonious; ceremony; certain; chair; chance; character; characteristic; charge; charley; charming; cheek; cheerful; cheerfulness; chief; child; children; christian; church; circumstances; city; claims; close; cloth; clothes; coat; cold; collateral; colonel; color; colored; comfort; comfortable; coming; comma; command; common; companion; company; compliment; condition; conduct; confidence; connection; consciousness; consideration; control; convenience; conversation; cordial; cornelia; corner; correct; costume; country; countrymen; course; courteous; courtesies; courtesy; cousin; crowd; cultivation; culture; curiosity; cut; daily; dark; daughter; day; days; dear; death; deep; degree; demands; desirable; desire; details; devoted; different; dignity; dining; dinner; directions; dirty; discern; discipline; discovery; discriminating; discussion; display; distinctive; distinguished; domestic; door; double; doubt; drawing; dress; dressed; driving; duties; duty; early; earth; earthly; ease; easy; eating; education; effect; effort; elaborate; elderly; elegant; elevated; embarrassment; endeavor; engaged; england; english; enjoyment; entire; epistolary; equal; ernest; escape; essential; established; evening; example; excuse; exercise; exhibition; existence; experience; explanation; expression; exquisite; extent; extreme; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; familiar; familiarity; family; fanny; fashion; fashionable; fashioned; fast; father; favorite; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; female; figure; fine; fingers; fire; fixed; flowers; following; food; foreign; forgotten; form; fortune; forward; franklin; free; french; frequent; friend; friendship; future; garments; general; genial; genius; gentleman; genuine; gift; girl; glance; glass; gloves; god; golden; good; governor; graceful; graces; grand; gratification; great; greatest; green; group; guests; guide; habit; habitual; half; hall; hand; handsome; happiness; happy; hat; head; health; heart; heaven; henry; hero; high; highest; history; home; honor; honorable; hope; hospitality; host; hostess; hotel; hours; house; huge; human; humanity; humor; husband; ida; idea; ignorance; ill; illustration; importance; impressions; incident; indifference; individual; indulgence; industry; influence; information; inquiry; instance; intellectual; intended; intercourse; interest; introduction; invitation; james; john; johnson; journey; judge; judicious; julia; justice; kind; kindness; know; knowledge; ladies; lady; land; language; large; late; laughing; law; laws; learned; learning; leave; left; legitimate; legs; length; letter; life; like; likely; lines; listening; literary; literature; little; living; london; long; longer; looking; lord; loud; love; lunettes; madam; mamma; man; manhood; manly; manner; mansion; marked; married; master; matters; means; meeting; men; mental; mere; merry; mind; minister; minutes; mirth; miss; mistaken; mode; models; modern; moment; money; moral; morning; mother; movement; mrs; music; musical; napoleon; national; native; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; need; neglect; neighbor; nephews; new; newspaper; nice; noble; note; number; nurse; object; observance; observation; observer; observing; occasion; occupation; offer; offering; office; old; old man; open; opening; opera; opinion; opposite; order; ordinary; outer; outward; page; pair; pale; papa; paper; pardon; parlor; particular; parties; party; passage; passing; past; patient; peculiarities; people; perceptions; perfect; period; permission; permit; personal; persons; peters; phrase; picture; pity; place; plain; pleasant; pleasure; poetry; point; polished; politeness; political; poor; portion; position; possession; possibility; possible; power; practical; practice; precedence; prepared; presence; present; pretty; previous; pride; principle; private; professional; promise; proper; propriety; public; pure; purpose; pursuit; quick; quiet; quote; rank; reading; ready; real; reason; reception; recognition; refinement; regard; relation; relief; religious; remark; remembrance; reply; requisite; residence; respect; respectful; result; retreat; return; reverence; rich; riding; right; rise; room; rose; round; rudeness; rule; safe; saw; saying; scene; school; search; seat; secret; secure; selection; self; send; sense; sensible; sensitive; sentence; servant; service; set; sex; shade; shawl; short; similar; simple; single; sir; sister; sitting; size; sketch; sketches; skill; slight; slightest; small; smile; smith; smoke; social; society; sofa; soft; soldier; sorry; soul; speaking; spirit; stairs; standard; standing; staring; state; station; step; stopping; stranger; street; strong; study; style; subject; sublime; successful; sudden; suffering; sufficient; suitable; superior; superiority; sweet; sympathy; system; table; tact; talk; task; taste; tasteful; tea; teeth; tell; temperance; thank; theme; things; thorough; thought; time; tobacco; toilet; tone; tour; town; training; travelling; tribute; trifles; trouble; true; trust; truth; turning; uncle; unexceptionable; unfortunate; union; united; unknown; unworthy; use; useful; usual; v----; value; variety; venerable; view; visit; visitors; voice; vulgar; walking; want; warm; washington; water; way; weary; wedding; welcome; white; wide; wife; window; wisdom; wish; wishes; wit; woman; words; work; world; worn; worthy; writing; xvix; y----; yankee; years; york; young; young lady; young man; younger; youth; youthful cache: 39005.txt plain text: 39005.txt item: #24 of 32 id: 39040 author: Anonymous title: Manners and Rules of Good Society; or, Solecisms to be Avoided date: None words: 75890 flesch: 64 summary: This custom of turning down a corner of a visiting card signifies that other ladies of the family besides the hostess are included in the call. A gentleman should not turn down a corner of his card, even though he may be acquainted with other ladies of the family besides the mistress of the house. keywords: accent; account; acquaintance; acquainted; act; addition; address; afternoon; amusement; answer; arm; army; arranged; arrival; attendance; bachelor; ball; best; black; bow; bowing; breakfast; bridal; bride; bridegroom; bridesmaids; brother; calling; calls; cards; case; centre; ceremony; certain; chamberlain; chapter; charity; children; christening; christian; church; circle; circumstances; classes; cloth; coffee; comers; company; considerable; consideration; contrary; convenient; conversation; corner; correct; country; couple; course; court; custom; cut; dance; dancing; date; daughters; day; days; departure; desire; dessert; dining; dinner; door; drawing; dress; driving; dukes; early; eldest; engaged; engagement; england; english; enter; entertainment; entitled; equal; etiquette; evening; excellency; fact; family; fashion; fashionable; father; favour; fish; flowers; follow; following; foreign; fork; form; friendly; friends; fruit; game; garden; gatherings; general; gentlemen; giver; giving; gloves; good; grand; great; guests; half; hall; hand; handed; hats; head; health; highest; home; hostess; hour; house; hunting; husband; imperative; individual; instance; intimate; introduction; invitations; kind; king; knife; knights; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; lady patronesses; ladyship; large; late; lead; leave; leaving; left; length; levée; lieutenant; like; list; little; london; long; lord; luncheon; madame; majesties; majesty; majority; man; manner; marquis; marriage; married; married lady; matter; means; members; military; minutes; mistress; moment; monsieur; months; mother; motor; mourning; mrs; mutual; names; near; necessary; new; note; notice; number; o'clock; occasion; offer; office; officers; official; oftener; old; open; opportunity; optional; order; parents; particular; parties; partners; party; pass; patronesses; people; period; person; place; pleasure; point; popular; position; possible; precedence; presence; present; presentation; previous; prince; princess; principal; private; privilege; proper; public; purpose; queen; question; rank; reason; received; reception; refreshments; regards; relatives; request; residents; return; riding; right; ring; room; round; royal; rule; save; saying; seat; seated; second; servant; service; shake; shooting; short; silk; silver; sir; small; smith; social; society; sons; soup; sovereign; space; special; spoon; standing; state; stewards; style; subscription; sufficient; surname; syllable; table; taking; tea; thing; tickets; time; title; town; understood; unmarried; upper; usual; visiting; visitor; waiting; walking; way; wear; wedding; weeks; white; widow; wife; wine; wish; wishes; wives; words; work; worn; year; young; young ladies; young lady; younger cache: 39040.txt plain text: 39040.txt item: #25 of 32 id: 40901 author: Celnart, Elisabeth title: The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment, Dedicated to the Youth of Both Sexes date: None words: 46199 flesch: 63 summary: These visits are divided into several classes; those of the evening or afternoon, which are the most polite; of the morning, which are the most friendly and respectful; by cards, and presenting one's-self, and by cards without presenting one's-self; visits weekly, which are confined to acquaintances with whom we have not very close relations; monthly, which are less ceremonious, but however partake of coldness: it is at Paris more than any other place, that these visits are permitted; such calls demand much attention to the toilet; they should be as short as possible; a visit of quarter of an hour is long enough, and we should be careful to retire when other persons come in. In the last case, there is a method of manifesting our interest, without violating etiquette; it consists in making these inquiries of the domestics, or of other persons of the house, and of saying afterwards when introduced; 'I am happy Sir, to hear that you are in good health. keywords: account; acquaintance; act; address; advice; affection; agreeable; air; answer; appearance; arm; articles; arts; assembly; attention; bad; balls; beware; black; body; brilliant; business; cards; care; careful; carriage; carry; case; catholic; ceremonious; ceremony; certain; chair; chapter; church; circumstances; common; company; conduct; contrary; conversation; course; custom; dance; day; days; degree; delicacy; delicate; deportment; desire; different; distinguished; domestic; door; drawing; dress; duties; duty; elegance; elegant; endeavor; error; esteem; familiar; family; father; favor; form; fortune; friends; general; gentleman; glass; good; grace; great; guests; habit; half; hand; hat; head; health; hold; home; honor; hour; house; husband; ibid; iii; ill; impolite; important; indispensable; interest; intimate; invitation; kind; ladies; lady; language; large; leave; left; letter; life; little; lively; long; love; madam; manner; mark; married; master; means; mind; mistress; modesty; mother; mourning; near; necessary; new; object; observed; occasion; offer; office; ones; open; opinion; order; paper; paris; particular; people; persons; place; play; pleasure; point; politeness; possible; practice; present; private; profession; proper; propriety; provincial; public; questions; rank; readers; reason; received; regard; relations; religious; reply; request; respect; respectable; respectful; return; ridiculous; right; room; rules; salute; saying; seat; second; section; self; service; sex; short; silence; similar; situation; small; social; society; strangers; street; style; subject; suitable; table; taking; taste; terms; thanks; thing; time; title; toilet; ton; tone; towns; trouble; true; turn; unfortunate; useful; visitors; visits; vulgar; walk; want; way; white; wife; wish; wishes; words; work; world; writing; year; young cache: 40901.txt plain text: 40901.txt item: #26 of 32 id: 45591 author: Anonymous title: Beadle's Dime Book of Practical Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen Being a Guide to True Gentility and Good-Breeding, and a Complete Directory to the Usages and Observances of Society date: None words: 23328 flesch: 67 summary: The recent fashions of wearing the plumes or feathers of the ostrich, the cock, the capercailzie, the pheasant, the peacock, and kingfisher, in the riding-hats of young ladies, in my humble opinion, are highly to be commended. If any one thing marks a person's bringing up, it is the language used in company; and it may be set down as an almost invariable rule, that any one who uses _slang_ words, who talks loudly and rudely, who utters an oath, or who becomes angered and expresses it, is _no_ gentleman, and has not had good associations. keywords: acquaintance; address; advice; agreeable; arm; attention; bad; ball; beadle; beautiful; bell; better; beware; book; bow; boy; breeding; brief; business; cards; careful; case; ceremony; chapter; character; chess; children; church; circle; coat; common; companion; company; conduct; contents; conversation; course; custom; dance; dancing; darling; day; days; dear; deportment; dime; dinner; door; dress; dresses; easy; etiquette; evening; excuse; exercise; expression; eyes; family; feeling; female; fit; flowers; form; friends; general; gentleman; girl; good; grace; great; guests; habit; hair; half; hand; hat; head; heart; home; host; hour; house; husband; ignorant; ill; improper; introductions; invitation; kind; ladies; lady; language; large; laws; left; letters; life; like; little; long; look; love; man; manner; marriage; married; matter; men; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; music; necessary; need; new; note; observances; observed; occasions; offer; old; open; opinion; order; ornaments; page; parents; parties; party; people; person; place; pleasant; politeness; possible; presence; present; private; proper; proprieties; propriety; public; ready; real; regard; relations; remark; respect; riding; right; room; rudeness; rules; sea; seat; self; set; sexes; social; society; song; special; street; study; style; subject; success; table; talk; taste; thee; thing; thursday; time; true; visits; vulgar; walk; want; way; wedding; white; wife; wish; wishes; woman; word; writing; year; young; young man cache: 45591.txt plain text: 45591.txt item: #27 of 32 id: 47993 author: Della Casa, Giovanni title: A Renaissance Courtesy-book: Galateo of Manners & Behaviours date: None words: 34290 flesch: 69 summary: It is no longer the court but the monde about which social life centres, not that other men do not belong to the world (as this author naïvely explains), but because we are concerned solely with that great world which is the home of fashion. For asmuche then, as our maners, have some pleasure in them when we respect other men, and not our owne pleasure: if we diligently searche forthe what those things be, that most men do generally like or dislike: we shall in suche sorte wisely and easily finde out, the meanes & wayes, to choose and eschewe, those fashions and maners, we are to leave or take, to live amongest men. keywords: acquaintance; againe; age; ages; althoughe; alwayes; amongest; apparell; archbishop; asmuche; author; base; bee; beginning; behaviours; beholde; best; better; beware; bishop; bite; blame; bodie; body; book; bycause; calling; care; casa; case; castiglione; century; ceremonies; certaine; charge; chaunce; chaunceth; children; civil; cleane; cleanliness; code; common; companie; company; conceite; concerned; condition; conduct; conversation; counsell; count; countenaunce; countrie; country; courteous; courtesie; courtesy; courts; credite; cunning; curious; custome; dant; day; della; desire; details; discourse; discretion; disdaine; doe; doings; doone; doth; dreames; drinke; eares; effect; ells; els; english; eschewe; example; experience; eyes; face; faire; fall; familiar; fashions; fault; fellowes; fine; fit; follies; foolishe; form; foule; french; friend; galateo; gallant; gentleman; gestures; god; good; good man; good manners; goodnes; grace; greate; hands; hard; hath; head; heare; hee; honest; honour; house; hurt; ill; individual; inough; italian; italy; jestes; judge; keepe; kind; king; knowe; knowledge; lady; language; large; laughe; learne; leave; lesse; let; lie; life; light; like; litle; long; lorde; love; maister; man; maner; manners; mans; matter; meane; meaning; measure; mediaeval; meete; men; men doe; men y^t; mens; mere; middle; minde; mocke; modern; moste; mouth; nature; neede; new; noble; noise; notwithstanding; number; occasion; old; order; otherwhile; owne; parte; passe; people; peradventure; perchaunce; perfect; personal; peterson; place; plaine; pleasaunt; pleasure; point; poore; power; praise; precepts; present; prety; pride; proper; purpose; real; reason; renaissance; respect; rest; reverence; rome; rude; rules; saide; saye; saying; scorne; seeke; selfe; selves; sense; shalbe; shame; shewe; silence; singular; sixteenth; skill; small; social; society; soever; solace; som; sorte; speache; speake; state; suche; sweete; table; talke; taste; taught; thee; therfore; things; thinke; thou; thought; thy; time; titles; tounge; treatise; trifles; true; turne; understanding; unseemely; uppon; use; vaine; venice; version; virtue; w^t; water; way; wee; wee doe; weene; wel; whome; wine; wise; wit; women; woords; wordes; worke; world; worship; worthy; y^e; y^t; young cache: 47993.txt plain text: 47993.txt item: #28 of 32 id: 5255 author: Green, Walter Cox title: The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions date: None words: 52488 flesch: 77 summary: The ushers, best man, and groom may come after the dinner to attend the wedding rehearsal. The ushers, bridesmaids, best man, and maid of honor are generally dispensed with; but if present, their duties are the same as at a church wedding, with minor differences. keywords: acquaintance; address; afternoon; afternoon dress; aisle; appropriate; arm; bachelors; ball; bearers; best; best man; black; bow; breakfast; bride; bridesmaids; business; calling; calls; cards; care; carriage; case; ceremony; chaperone; church; clergyman; congratulations; conversation; corner; couple; customary; dance; dancing; date; daughter; day; days; dear; debutante; desires; details; dinner; door; dress; ends; engagement; engraved; entertainment; envelope; escort; evening; evening dress; family; farewell; father; fee; flowers; follow; formal; friends; funerals; gift; gloves; good; groom; guests; hand; hat; high; home; honor; honorable; hostess; hour; house; husband; intimate; introductions; invitations; john; kent; lady; large; leave; left; letter; lord; luncheons; madam; mail; man; married; men; messenger; miss; mother; mourning; mrs; names; near; necessary; need; note; obedient; official; opera; pall; parents; parties; party; patronesses; permission; person; personal; place; possible; present; procession; proper; public; receiving; reception; relatives; return; right; seat; secretary; servant; shake; sir; small; social; special; stand; street; suitable; supper; table; taste; teas; theatre; time; trip; ushers; visit; way; wear; wedding; week; white; wife; wilson; wishes; woman; words; year; young; younger cache: 5255.txt plain text: 5255.txt item: #29 of 32 id: 5681 author: Unknown title: The Laws of Etiquette; Or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society date: None words: 22156 flesch: 70 summary: Do not presume, as some do, to found expectations of favour or promotion from great men who profess themselves your obliged servant. Such men go through scenes of pleasure, enjoying nothing. keywords: abb; acquaintance; affectation; agreeable; arm; attention; awkward; ball; best; better; bow; breeding; brummel; business; care; carriage; case; ceremony; certain; chapter; character; coach; common; company; compliment; conduct; conversation; country; course; cravat; custom; day; delicate; different; dinner; distinction; door; drawing; dress; ease; easy; england; entire; error; etiquette; fact; fashion; fashionable; flattery; fork; forms; france; french; friends; general; gentleman; good; grave; great; greater; guests; habit; hand; highest; host; hour; house; ignorance; importance; indispensable; intercourse; intimate; invitation; johnson; kind; knife; knowledge; ladies; lady; language; leave; letters; life; literary; little; long; love; man; manner; master; matters; men; mind; moment; morning; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; new; object; occasion; old; opinion; order; ordinary; paper; parlour; particular; party; perfect; persons; piece; place; pleased; point; politeness; political; possible; present; pretensions; proper; propriety; public; purpose; qualities; rank; real; refined; remark; reply; reputation; respectable; rest; room; seat; self; sense; servant; sir; social; society; sort; standing; street; style; subject; table; things; think; time; visit; vulgar; wine; wit; women; world; young cache: 5681.txt plain text: 5681.txt item: #30 of 32 id: 60955 author: Lafferty, R. A. title: The Polite People of Pudibundia date: None words: 3369 flesch: 89 summary: At first Marlow was shocked by the appearance of all the females he met on Pud. His host also assumed the name of Marlow out of politeness. keywords: appearance; ball; course; deferential; eyes; formula; hand; iris; irma; like; marlow; mitzi; omtlm; people; pilots; polite; politeness; possible; pudibundia; puds; return; room; shame; stories; time; young cache: 60955.txt plain text: 60955.txt item: #31 of 32 id: 8399 author: Sherwood, M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) title: Manners and Social Usages date: None words: 126430 flesch: 71 summary: Young ladies find it a very pretty recreation to make the tea-table attractive with the floral arrangements, the basket of cake, the sandwiches, the silver tea-caddy, the alcohol lamp burning under the silver or copper kettle, the padded cozy to keep the tea warm, the long table around which young gentlemen and young ladies can sit, while mamma, patient American mamma--receives the elder people in the parlor. In America the other extreme has led to a very vicious system of etiquette, by which young ladies are recognized as altogether leaders of society, receiving the guests and pushing their mothers into the background. keywords: acquaintance; address; admirable; advantage; afraid; afternoon; agreeable; altar; american; amusement; answer; appearance; appropriate; aristocracy; arm; arrangements; artificial; artist; artistic; asking; attempt; attention; autumn; awkward; bad; ball; bashful; basket; bear; beautiful; beauty; beef; beginning; bell; best; better; black; blossoms; blue; body; bonnet; book; bouillon; bouquets; bow; bowl; boxes; boy; bread; breakfast; breeding; bridal; bride; bridegroom; bridesmaids; bright; brilliant; brocade; broken; brother; brown; business; busy; butler; cake; calling; calls; cap; cards; care; careful; careless; carriages; case; cashmere; casino; caudle; centre; ceremony; certain; chairs; champagne; change; chaperon; chapter; character; charming; cheap; cheese; children; china; choice; christening; christian; church; circle; cities; city; civilities; civility; claret; clean; clergyman; clever; cloak; cloth; clothes; coach; coat; coffee; cold; colored; colors; comfort; comfortable; common; company; compliment; condolence; conduct; confusion; conspicuous; convenient; conversation; cook; cordial; corner; correspondents; costly; costume; country; country dinner; couple; course; courtesy; crape; cream; crowded; cultivated; cup; cups; custom; cut; dance; dancing; danger; dark; date; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; deep; degree; delicate; delicious; delightful; demands; desire; dessert; diamond; different; difficult; dignity; dining; dinner; disagreeable; dishes; display; distinction; distinguished; doctors; dollars; door; doubt; dozen; drawing; dreadful; dress; dresses; dressing; drive; driving; drunk; duke; dust; duties; duty; early; easy; effect; elaborate; elderly; elegance; elegant; embroidered; engaged; engagement; england; english; englishman; engraved; entertainment; envelope; etiquette; europe; evening; excellent; excuse; expected; expensive; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; familiar; familiarity; families; family; fancy; fans; fashion; fashionable; fashioned; father; favorite; favors; fear; feathers; feeling; feet; fianc; figure; fine; finger; fire; fish; floral; flowers; follow; following; foot; footman; foreign; foreigners; fork; form; formal; formula; fortunate; fortune; france; freedom; french; fresh; friendly; friends; fruit; funeral; future; game; garden; gay; general; genius; gentleman; gentry; german; gifts; gilt; girl; giving; glad; glass; glasses; gloves; gold; golden; good; good society; gown; graceful; grand; gray; great; greater; green; grief; guests; habit; hair; half; hall; hand; handed; handles; handsome; happy; hard; hat; hats; having; hawthorne; head; heart; heavy; help; high; highest; hire; history; hold; holding; home; honor; hope; horses; hospitality; hostess; hot; hotel; hour; house; household; human; husband; ices; idea; ignorant; ill; important; indispensable; informal; instance; interest; intimate; introduction; invitation; january; john; keeper; keeping; kind; kindly; kitchen; knife; knives; ladies; lady; lamps; language; large; laugh; law; lawn; laws; leader; leave; leaving; left; letters; liberty; life; light; like; lilacs; lilies; linen; list; little; lives; london; long; longer; look; looking; lord; loss; lovely; lover; luncheon; luxurious; luxury; magnificent; maid; making; mamma; manners; marked; marriage; married; matter; meal; means; meat; members; men; middle; mind; miss; mistake; mistress; mixed; modern; moment; money; monogram; months; moral; mother; mourner; mourning; mouth; mrs; music; names; napkins; natural; nature; near; neat; necessary; necessity; neck; necked; need; neighbor; new; new york; newport; note; notice; november; number; o'clock; occasion; offence; offer; old; ones; open; opera; opportunity; optimist; optional; orange; order; ordinary; original; ornaments; oysters; pair; pale; paper; parents; paris; park; parlor; particular; parties; partner; party; past; pay; pearls; people; perfect; period; person; personal; picture; piece; pink; place; plain; plates; play; pleasant; pleases; pleasure; point; politeness; poor; position; possible; post; potatoes; power; practice; presence; present; president; pretty; prince; princess; private; privilege; proper; propriety; public; punch; purple; purpose; quadrille; queen; question; quiet; rank; rare; ready; real; received; receiving; recent; reception; red; refreshments; relatives; remains; request; respect; respectable; respectful; rest; result; return; ribbon; rich; ring; rise; roast; room; roses; round; royal; rule; salad; salt; satin; saying; season; seats; second; self; sending; sense; sensible; separate; servants; service; set; severe; shades; shape; sherry; shocked; shoes; showing; shy; shyness; silk; silver; silver wedding; simple; simplicity; single; sister; size; small; smith; social; society; soft; solid; sons; sort; soup; speaking; speech; spirit; splendid; spoken; spoon; spread; spring; square; stand; standing; stately; step; stiff; stone; stout; stranger; strawberries; street; strong; study; style; subject; success; sufficient; sugar; summer; sunday; supper; sweet; sympathetic; sympathy; system; table; tact; talk; talking; taste; tea; teas; tennis; term; theatre; thick; thing; thought; time; title; tour; town; train; travelling; trees; trouble; true; truth; understood; universal; usages; useful; ushers; usual; valse; valuable; vases; vegetables; veil; velvet; visiting; visitor; visits; voice; vulgar; wales; walk; wall; want; warm; washington; water; watering; wax; way; wealth; wear; wearing; weather; wedding; week; welcome; white; widow; wife; willing; wine; winter; wise; wish; wit; woman; wood; words; work; world; worth; writer; writing; years; yellow; york; young; young ladies; young lady; young men; young people; young person cache: 8399.txt plain text: 8399.txt item: #32 of 32 id: 8467 author: Frost, S. Annie (Sarah Annie) title: Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. date: None words: 65930 flesch: 69 summary: A gentleman alone may join lady friends for a few moments between the acts at a theatre, or in the intermission at a concert, but only for a few moments, as their escort has a prior claim upon their attention. If lady friends attend a funeral, if they are not in mourning, they should wear grave, quiet colors. keywords: acquaintance; act; acts; address; affairs; agreeable; amusement; answer; arm; arrangements; arrival; artist; attention; awkward; bad; ball; bath; best; black; body; book; bow; breach; bred; breeding; bride; bridegroom; business; caller; calling; calls; card; careful; carriage; case; ceremonies; ceremony; certain; change; character; children; choice; church; circumstances; city; clean; clergyman; coffin; comfort; common; companion; company; compliment; conduct; conversation; converse; corner; country; course; courteous; courtesy; customary; customs; cut; dance; dancing; day; death; decline; delicate; desire; dinner; dish; display; door; drawing; dress; dresses; duke; duties; duty; early; easy; endeavor; engaged; engagement; english; entire; escort; etiquette; evening; excuse; expected; express; extreme; face; fact; fair; familiar; family; fashion; father; fault; favor; feelings; fish; flowers; following; foot; force; fork; form; formal; free; french; friend; fruit; funeral; game; general; gentleman; gentleman friend; gift; gloves; good; grave; great; gross; guests; guide; guilty; habit; hair; half; hand; hat; head; heart; hold; home; honor; hospitality; hostess; hotel; hour; house; household; husband; ill; immediate; important; interest; intimate; introduction; invitation; james; jewelry; kind; kindness; knife; known; ladies; lady; lady friend; language; large; late; laws; lead; leave; left; letter; liberty; life; like; little; long; longer; look; lord; loud; low; manners; married; matter; meal; means; meeting; members; men; mere; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mouth; mrs; music; napkin; nature; near; nearest; necessary; need; new; note; notice; number; o'clock; object; occasion; offer; officer; old; ones; open; order; parents; parties; partner; party; passing; people; perfect; performance; permission; person; personal; place; play; playing; pleasant; pleasure; point; politeness; poor; position; positive; possible; practice; presence; present; price; private; proper; propriety; public; question; quiet; ready; reason; receiving; regard; relatives; remark; request; respect; rest; return; riding; right; rise; room; round; rude; rudeness; rules; salutation; sauce; seat; second; sense; servants; service; set; short; sign; small; smoke; smoking; social; society; soup; special; speech; standing; state; stay; stop; strangers; street; strict; studio; subject; sufficient; supper; table; talk; taste; teeth; temper; tete; things; time; toilet; tone; train; trouble; true; true lady; value; view; visit; visitor; vulgar; waiting; walking; want; watch; water; way; wear; wedding; wednesday; week; white; wife; wine; wish; wishes; woman; words; work; world; writer; young; young lady cache: 8467.txt plain text: 8467.txt