The Habits of Good Society: A Handbook for Ladies and Gentlemen. The Whole Interspersed with Humorous Illustrations of Social Predicaments.

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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