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

After lunch it will be time to return home, and after you and father have ruined your clothes in repairing the punctures, the merry party will proceed on its way. The next morning, if you have not caught pneumonia, you will be able to go to your work greatly refreshed by your day’s outing in the lap of old Mother Nature. Correct Negotiations for a Seat in the Subway Nowhere is the etiquette of travel more abused than our subways. The gentleman shown above is en route to his fiancée’s flat in the Bronx. He has neglected to purchase the customary bouquet for his intended and has offered his seat to the lady, who is standing, in exchange for her corsage bouquet. Should she accept the proposition without further ado, or should she request the guard to introduce the gentleman first? Old Fashioned Letter and Writers vs. Perfect Behavior The young lady has received an invitation to a quilting-bee from a Mrs. Steenwyck and, anxious to make a correct reply, she has bought a Complete Letter Writer to aid her to this end. To her surprise and dismay, she finds that it contains three model replies to such an invitation beginning “Dear Mrs. Peartree,” “Dear Mrs. Rombouts,” and “Dear Mrs. Bevy,” and one invitation to a christening beginning, “Dear Mrs. Steenwyck,” but no reply to an invitation to a quilting-bee beginning “Dear Mrs. Steenwyck.” PERFECT BEHAVIOR settles such perplexities. What to Avoid in Crests Crests or other armorial bearings on notepaper are no longer considered absolutely necessary to establish one’s social position. Nevertheless, if one feels that note-paper that does not bear the family escutcheon is not quite all that note-paper should be, it is permissible to have it stamped neatly at the top of the first sheet. Care should be exercised to avoid selecting coats-of-arms that might be recognized, such as that of the United States or Great Britain. Rather solicit the taste of a good stationer than commit the blunders depicted above.