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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
270
It
is
too
much
the
fashion,
in
conversation,
to
use
exaggerated
expressions
which
are
opposed
to
truth,
without
the
person
employing
them
being
aware
of
it,
from
the
mere
force
of
habit.
Why
need
we
say
splendid
for
pretty,
magnificent
for
handsome,
horrid
for
unpleasant,
immense
for
large,
thousands,
or
myriads,
for
any
number
more
than
two?
This
practice
is
pernicious,
for
the
effect
is
to
deprive
the
person
who
is
guilty
of
it,
from
being
believed,
when
she
is
in
earnest.
No
one
can
trust
the
testimony
of
an
individual
who,
in
common
conversation,
is
indifferent
to
the
import,
and
regardless
of
the
value
of
words.
Politeness
is
very
essential
to
the
right
transaction
of
that
great
business
of
woman's
life,
shopping.
The
variety
afforded
by
the
shops
of
a
city
renders
people
difficult
to
please;
and
the
latitude
they
take
in
examining
and
asking
the
price
of
goods,
which
they
have
no
thought
of
buying,
is
so
trying
to
the
patience
of
those
who
attend
upon
them,
that
nothing
but
the
most
perfect
courtesy
of
demeanor
can
reconcile
them
to
it.
Some
persons
behave,
in
shopping,
as
if
no
one
had
any
rights,
or
any
feelings,
but
the
purchasers;
as
if
the
sellers
of
goods
were
mere
automatons,
put
behind
the
counter
to
do
their
bidding;
they
keep
them
waiting,
whilst
they
talk
of
other
things,
with
a
friend;
they
call
for
various
goods,
ask
the
price,
and
try
to
cheapen
them,
without
any
real
intention
of
buying.
A
lady
who
wants
decision
of
character,
after
hesitating
and
debating,
till
the
poor
trader's
patience
is
almost
exhausted,
will
beg
him
to
send
the
article
to
her
house,
for
her
to
examine
it
there;
and,
after
giving
him
all
this
trouble,
she
will
refuse
to
purchase
it,
without
any
scruple
or
apology.
Some
think
they
have
a
right
to
exchange
articles
at
the
place
where
they
were
bought;
whereas
that
privilege
should
be
asked
as
a
favor,
only
by
a
good
customer,--and
then
but
rarely.
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