文档介绍：ETIQUETTE IN SOCIETY, IN BUSINESS, IN POLITICS AND AT HOME 1
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in
Politics and at Home
By Emily Post
ETIQUETTE IN SOCIETY, IN BUSINESS, IN POLITICS AND AT HOME 2
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in
Politics and at Home
Emily Post
Far from being a proscriber of minutiae, Post the philosopher offers a
Corbis way of living: “Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which
can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is
There is no reason why personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and
you should be bored attitude toward life.” Post gives us pithy advice on the preservation of
when you can be American twentieth-century decorum as well as thousands of tips on
otherwise. But if you correspondence, wedding planning, party giving, and conduct in every
find yourself sitting in public or private setting. There is also a fully hypertexted subject index
the hedgerow with and scores of full-page illustrations and facsimiles of social cards and
nothing but weeds, invitations.
there is no reason for
shutting your eyes and CONTENTS
seeing nothing, instead
of finding what beauty Bibliographic Record Photographic Illustrations Subject Index
you may in the weeds.
To put it cynically, life TO YOU MY FRIENDS WHOSE IDENTITY IN THESE PAGES IS VEILED
is too short to waste it IN FICTIONAL DISGUISE IT IS BUT FITTING THAT I DEDICATE THIS
in drawing blanks. BOOK.
Therefore, it is up to
you to find as many NEW YORK: FUNK & WAGNALLS, 1922
pictures to put on your NEW YORK: , 1999
blank pages as possible.
Emily Introduction
Post
1. What Is Best Society? – Announcement (12-1-99)
2. Introductions – Selected Quotations
3. Greetings
4. Salutations of Courtesy
5. On the Street and in Public
6. At Public Gatherings
7. Conversation
8. Words, Phrases and Pronunciation
9.