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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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Embroidering
on
canvas,
or
tapestry
work,
opens
a
large
field
for
taste
and
skill
in
execution.
Beautiful
articles
for
presents,
chair
covers,
sofa
cushions,
slippers,
may
be
worked
in
the
otherwise
idle
moments
spent
in
familiar
society,
and
the
fingers
will
soon
acquire
skill
and
astonishing
rapidity.
The
German
ladies
have
constantly
on
hand
a
piece
of
netting
or
other
fancy
work,
which
they
carry
from
place
to
place,
and
take
out
when
conversing;
and
so
far
from
entirely
engrossing
their
thoughts,
they
chat
more
readily
and
freely
with
their
fingers
thus
employed.
American
ladies
will
find
the
custom
worth
imitating.
Many
tedious
hours
will
be
smoothly,
pleasantly
passed,
with
the
mind
free,
but
the
fingers
pleasantly
occupied.
An
evening
passed
in
sewing
or
knitting,
with
one
good
reader
to
entertain
the
industrious
workers,
will
be
found
very
pleasant.
I
have
known
a
circle
of
young
people
meet
every
week
to
work
in
this
way,
the
reader
being
changed
twice
or
three
times
in
the
course
of
the
evening,
and
these
meetings
have
proved
so
pleasant,
that
scarcely
any
member
failed
to
plead
"prior
engagement"
if
invited
out
upon
the
evening
appointed
to
read
and
sew.
It
was
formerly
objected
by
the
adversaries
to
mental
cultivation
in
women,
that
the
acquirement
of
book
learning
would
make
them
neglect
needlework;
but
so
far
from
this
being
the
case,
the
present,
which
is
often
called
the
age
of
learning,
is
preeminently
a
working
age.
Never
were
fingers
more
actively
engaged
than
those
of
the
rising
female
generation;
braiding,
embroidery,
Berlin
work,
knitting,
netting,
and
crochet,
are
all
in
full
play.
A
long
neglected
work
has
been
recently
revived,
called
by
the
French
"La
Frivolite."
It
is
very
pretty
evening
work,
partly
because
it
does
not
impede
conversation,
for
it
may
be
carried
on
almost
without
looking
at
it,
and
partly
because
no
other
work
shows
to
so
much
advantage
the
grace
and
delicacy
of
the
hands.
The
most
simple
form
of
this
work
was
anciently
known
under
the
name
of
Tatting,
but
that
only
consisted
of
a
series
of
loops
in
a
straight
line,
which
were
used
for
trimming
linen
articles,
and
which
was
not
so
pretty
as
La
Frivolite,
which
has
varieties
which
are
a
good
imitation
of
point,
and
may
be
used
for
collars
and
sleeves.
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