A Young Lady Is A Female Child

The Underlying Principles Of Manners- Respect, Fairness, And Congeniality.

When A Society Abandons Its Ideals Just Because Most People Can't Live Up To Them, Behavior Gets Very Ugly Indeed.

Honesty Has Come To Mean The Privilege Of Insulting You To Your Face Without Expecting Redress.

One Reason That The Task Of Inventing Manners Is So Difficult Is That Etiquette Is Folk Custom, And People Have Emotional Ties To The Forms Of Their Youth. That Is Why There Is Such Hostility Between Generations In Times Of Rapid Change; Their Manners Being Different, Each Feels Affronted By The Other, Taking Even The Most Surface Choices For Challenges.

From Memorial Day To Labor Day, You May Wear White Shoes. Not Before And Not After. As A Command, The White Shoe Edict Should Be Clear And Simple Enough. Do Not Violate It. In A Society In Which Everything Else Has Become Relative, A Matter Of How It Makes You Feel, A Question Between You And Your Conscience, And An Opportunity For You To Be Really You, This Is An Absolute.