No Rule Of Etiquette Is Of Less

In Popular Houses Where Visitors Like To Go Again And Again, There Is Always A Happy Combination Of Some Attention On The Part Of The Hostess And The Perfect Freedom Of The Guests To Occupy Their Time As They Choose.

Manners Are Made Up Of Trivialities Of Deportment Which Can Be Easily Learned If One Does Not Happen To Know Them; Manner Is Personality - The Outward Manifestation Of One's Innate Character And Attitude Toward Life.... Etiquette Must, If It Is To Be Of More Than Trifling Use, Include Ethics As Well As Manners. Certainly What One Is, Is Of Far Greater Importance Than What One Appears To Be.

Children Are All More Or Less Little Monkeys In That They Imitate Everything They See. If Their Mother Treats Them Exactly As She Does Her Visitors They In Turn Play "visitor" To Perfection. Nothing Hurts The Feelings Of Children More Than Not Being Allowed To Behave Like Grown Persons When They Think They Are Able.

An Overdose Of Praise Is Like 10 Lumps Of Sugar In Coffee; Only A Very Few People Can Swallow It.

To Tell A Lie In Cowardice, To Tell A Lie For Gain, Or To Avoid Deserved Punishment--are All The Blackest Of Black Lies.