Title
The Habits of Good Society: A Handbook for Ladies and Gentlemen. The Whole Interspersed with Humorous Illustrations of Social Predicaments.
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Carleton
Date
1870
Description
A Victorian-era etiquette guide for circulating around society. The particularity even addresses how to clean and manicure one’s nails.
Physical Carriage of a Man: Dignity can never go along with a slouching gait, and uprightness should be acquired in childhood by gymnastics and ample exercise.
The Physical Carriage of Ladies: …the grace of an upright form, of elegant and gentle movements, and of the desirable medium between stiffness and lounging, are desirable….
Source
From the collection of Karolyne H.C. Garner