Etiquette
by Emily Post

Selections from the 1947 edition

 

 

 

Don't Ask
"What Are You Doing
 Saturday?"

About Manners

Business Women

 

The Cruelty of New York

 

A Few Don'ts for Debutantes

Our Attitude Toward Disabled Veterans

Don't Wear Mirror-Lined Divers' Helmets


 Enemies Must Bury Hatchets

 


When First Names Are in Worst Taste

Certain Bad Manners of Women Drivers  

A Girl Dines in a Restaurant With a Man

 

Personality of a Handshake
Who Is Head of the Table?
How Far May a Girl Run After a Man?

 

A Little Jack Horner Shelf of Welcome Letters of Gloomy Apprehension
Olives Working Schedule for a One-Maid House
Paper for a Man,
Paper for a Woman

 

The Perfect Secretary
They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black A Woman Alone May Never Use a Crest Frankness of Today
Certainly You Can Sop Bread Into Gravy

 

When Skins Absorb Pick-Ups on the Campus Maxims for Those Who Talk Too Easily!
Our Poor Weak Younger Generation!

 

The Woman Who Is Chic Thinness Can Be Ugly  

When Young Women Are Not Particular

 

When Traveling for Pleasure Shall Be Resumed

About Emily Post

 

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