I. THE ETIQUETTE OF COURTSHIP A Few Words about Love—Curious Incident
in a Yellow Taxicab—A Silly Girl—Correct Introductions and how to Make
Them—A Well Known Congressman’s Ludicrous Mistake in a Turkish
Bath—Cards and Flowers—Flowers and their Message in Courtship—“A Clean
Tooth Never Decays”—Receiving an Invitation to Call—The Etiquette of
Telephoning-A Telephone Girl’s Horrible End—Making the First
Call—Conversation and Some of its Uses—A Proper Call—The Proposal
Proper-The Proposal Improper—What Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Said to
the ex-Clergyman’s Niece.
II. THE ETIQUETTE OF ENGAGEMENTS AND WEDDINGS The Historic
Aspect—Announcing the Engagement—A Breton Fisher Girl’s Experience with
a Traveling Salesman—The Bride-to-Be—The Engagement Luncheon—Selecting
the Bridal Party—Invitations and Wedding Presents—A Good Joke on the
Groom—“Madam, those are my trousers”—Duties of the Best Man—A Demented
Taxidermist’s Strange Gift—The Bride’s Tea—The Maid of Honor—What Aunt
Edna Saw on the Club Porch-The Bachelor Dinner and After-Some Practical
Uses for Bi-Carbonate of Soda—The Rehearsal—The Bridal Dinner—A Church
Wedding.
III. THE ETIQUETTE OF TRAVEL Hints for the Correct
Pedestrianism—Description of a Walk around Philadelphia with a Pueblo
Indian in 1837—Travelling by Rail— Good Form on a Street Car—In the
Subway—Fun with an Old Gentleman’s Whiskers—A Honeymoon in a
Subway—Travelling under Steam-A Correct Night in a Pullman-What Burton
Holmes Found in His Lower Berth.
IV. AT THE CONCERT AND THE OPERA Listening to a Symphony
Orchestra—Curious Effect of Debussy’s “Apres-midi d’un Faune” and four
gin fizzes on Uncle Frederick—“No, fool like an old fool”—Correct
Behavior at a Piano Recital—Choosing One’s Nearest Exit—In a Box at the
Opera—What a Kansas City Society Leader Did with Her Old Victrola
Records.
V. ETIQUETTE FOR DRY AGENTS Some Broader Aspects of
Prohibition—Interesting Effect of Whisky on Goldfish—The College
Graduate as Dry Agent—Aunt Emily’s Amusing Experiences with a Quart of
Gin Planning a Dry Raid on a Masquerade Ball A Word About Correct
Costumes—A California Motion Picture Actress’s Bad Taste—Good Form for
Dry Agents During a Raid-What the New York Clubman Said About Mr.
Volstead.
VI. A CHAPTER FOR SCHOOLGIRLS Selecting a Proper School—Account of an
Interesting Trip Down the Eric Canal with Miss Spence—Correct Equipment
for the Schoolgirl—En Route—ln New York—A journey Around the
City—Description of the Visit of Ed. Pinaud to the Aquarium in 1858—The
First Days in the New School—“After Lights” in a Dormitory—An “Old
Schoolgirl’s” Confessions—Becoming Acclimatized—A Visitor from
Princeton-Strange Pets.
VII. THE ETIQUETTE OF GAMES AND SPORTS Golf as a Pastime—What Henry
Ward Beecher Said When He Broke His Niblic—An Afternoon at the Old Farm
with the Dice—“Shoot you for your ear trumpet, grandfather!”—Correct
Behavior on a Picnic—A Swedish Nobleman’s Curious Method of Eating
Potato Chips—Boxing in American Society—A Good Joke on an Amateur
Boxer—“He didn’t know it was Jack Dempsey!”—Bridge Whist—Formal and
Informal Drinking—A jolly Hallowe’en Party—Invitations—Receiving the
Guests—How to Mystify—Games.
VIII. CORRESPONDENCE AND INVITATIONS Correspondence for Young
Ladies—College Boys How to Order a Full Dress Suit by Mail—Letters to
Parents—A Prominent Retired Bank President’s Advice to
Correspondents—Letters from Parents—Peculiarities of the Divorce Laws
of New York—Letters to Prospective Fathers-in-Law—A Correct Form of
Letter to a Society Matron Asking Her How About that Grocery Bill for
Eighty-Two Dollars and Sixty-Seven Cents—Love Letters—Correspondence of
Public Officials—-Letters to Strangers—Letters to Newspapers,
Magazines, etc.—Invitations, Acceptances and Regrets.
IX. THE ETIQUETTE OF DINNERS AND BALLS Formal Dinners in America-Table
Manners for Children—Removing Stains from Gray Silk—A Child’s Garden of
Etiquette—Etiquette in the School—Conversation at Dinner—What a New
Jersey Lady Did with Her Olive Seeds—Stewart’s Lightning Calculator of
Dinner Table Conversation—“It Seems that Pat and Mike”—Balls and
Dances—-Artificial Respiration—Mixed Dancing—Hints for Stags. A Word of
Warning and Encouragement