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Correct Conduct

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
January
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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Thf.he ia no greater compliment than a perfect punctuality. It is the "courtesy of kings." Queen Victoria, the Princo of Wales, the King and Queen of Italy never keep any one waiting. A lady should be very particular to specify whom she wishes to see, and no lady should go to a strange house uninvited, on the spoken belief of some other person that she will be welcome. A young gentleman may be taken by a married lady, who is all powerful, to a ball, as she is supposed to indorse his respectability, but ft is always better for him to leave his card, and for Mm to receive an invita tion. If through any misapprehension a person gets into a house uninvited, a hostess should never show, by word or manner, that she observes it. The very fact that a person has crossed her threshold gives, Sor the moment, that person a claim on the politeness of a hostess. There is no such utter mistake as to lose one's temper, one's nerve, one's composure in company. Society may be a false condition of things, but, whatever its faults, it demands of a woman the very high virtues of self-command, gentleness and composure, politeness, coolness and serenity. Good manners are said to be the shadows of virtues. A hostess should never reprove her servants in the presonce of her guesris. All that worries her must be carefully concealed from them. It is her place to oil the wheelB of the domestio machinery so that nothing shall jar. It is quite impossible in America that such a set of traincd servants could be obtained who should make the domestic wheels move without jarring. But the hostesa jnust not appear to notice it. If she is $i,sturbed, or flusiered, or miserable, who can enjoy any tainr?

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Ann Arbor Register