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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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If
a
foolish
girl,
by
dint
of
squeezing
and
bracing
with
busk
and
bones,
secures
the
conventional
beauty
of
a
wasp
waist,
she
is
tolerably
certain
to
gain
an
addition
she
by
no
means
bargained
for,
a
red
nose,
which,
in
numberless
instances,
is
produced
by
no
other
cause
than
the
unnatural
girth,
obstructing
circulation,
and
causing
stagnation
of
the
blood,
in
that
prominent
and
important
feature.
Often,
in
assemblages
of
the
fair,
we
have
seen
noses
faultless
in
form,
but
tinged
with
the
abhorred
hue,
to
which
washes
and
cosmetics
have
been
applied
in
wild
despair;
but
in
vain!
If
the
lovely
owners
had
known
the
cause,
how
speedily
the
effect
would
have
vanished!
for
surely
the
most
perverse
admirer
of
a
distorted
spine
and
compressed
lungs,
would
deem
the
acquisition
of
a
dram-drinker's
nose,
too
heavy
a
condition
to
be
complied
with.
A
well-bred
woman
will
not
demand
as
a
right
what
she
may
have
a
claim
to
expect
from
the
politeness
of
the
other
sex,
nor
show
dissatisfaction
and
resentment
if
she
fancies
herself
neglected.
For
want
of
good
breeding
some
females
are
exorbitant
in
their
expectations,
and
appear
unthankful
even
when
everything
is
done
which
true
politeness
demands.
Young
women
should
guard
against
this
unamiable
defect.
A
well-bred
person
will
take
care
not
to
use
slang
words
and
expressions.
There
never
has
been
a
time,
at
least
in
late
years,
when
there
have
not
been
some
two
or
three
cant
vulgarisms
in
vogue
among
all
the
blackguards
of
the
country.
Sometimes
these
phrases
have
been
caught
up
from
some
popular
song
or
farce;
sometimes,
we
believe,
they
have
had
their
origin
"where
assembles
the
collective
wisdom
of
the
country."
A
dozen
of
these
terse
but
meaningless
sayings
now
dance
before
our
recollection,
for
who
has
not
heard
them,
even
to
loathing?
But
from
whatever
source
they
may
have
been
drawn,
or
whatever
wit
there
might
be
in
their
original
position,
the
obtrusion
of
them
into
decent
society
is
an
unwarrantable
piece
of
impertinence.
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