Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises

V. ETIQUETTE FOR DRY AGENTS Some Broader Aspects of Prohibition— Interesting Effect of Whisky on Goldfish— The College Graduate as Dry Agent— Aunt Emily’s Amusing Experiences with a Quart of Gin Planning a Dry Raid on a Masquerade Ball A Word About Correct Costumes— A California Motion Picture Actress’s Bad Taste— Good Form for Dry Agents During a Raid-What the New York Clubman Said About Mr. Volstead. VI. A CHAPTER FOR SCHOOLGIRLS Selecting a Proper School— Account of an Interesting Trip Down the Eric Canal with Miss Spence— Correct Equipment for the Schoolgirl— En Route— ln New York— A journey Around the City— Description of the Visit of Ed. Pinaud to the Aquarium in 1858— The First Days in the New School— “After Lights” in a Dormitory— An “Old Schoolgirl’s” Confessions— Becoming Acclimatized— A Visitor from Princeton-Strange Pets. VII. THE ETIQUETTE OF GAMES AND SPORTS Golf as a Pastime— What Henry Ward Beecher Said When He Broke His Niblic— An Afternoon at the Old Farm with the Dice— “Shoot you for your ear trumpet, grandfather!”— Correct Behavior on a Picnic— A Swedish Nobleman’s Curious Method of Eating Potato Chips— Boxing in American Society— A Good Joke on an Amateur Boxer— “He didn’t know it was Jack Dempsey!”— Bridge Whist— Formal and Informal Drinking— A jolly Hallowe’en Party— Invitations— Receiving the Guests— How to Mystify— Games. VIII. CORRESPONDENCE AND INVITATIONS Correspondence for Young Ladies— College Boys How to Order a Full Dress Suit by Mail— Letters to Parents— A Prominent Retired Bank President’s Advice to Correspondents— Letters from Parents— Peculiarities of the Divorce Laws of New York— Letters to Prospective Fathers-in-Law— A Correct Form of Letter to a Society Matron Asking Her How About that Grocery Bill for Eighty-Two Dollars and Sixty-Seven Cents— Love Letters— Correspondence of Public Officials— -Letters to Strangers— Letters to Newspapers, Magazines, etc.— Invitations, Acceptances and Regrets.