The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness

Transcriber's Note: Minor punctuation errors (e.g. missing, misprinted or misplaced punctuation) have been corrected without note. Inconsistent hyphenation (e.g. ball room, ball-room; bon-bons, bonbons), spelling (e.g. visiters, visitors) and capitalization (e.g. neroli, Neroli) have not been corrected. Many of the "Receipts" are nearly identical. This has not been changed. The following changes were made to the text: p. 31: admissable to admissible (black lace mittens are admissible) p. 45: oclock to o'clock (Thursday evening next, at 8 o'clock) p. 137: left to right (On the upper right hand corner of your envelope) p. 160: violincello to violoncello (a piano, violin, and violoncello) p. 204: missing "of" added (the most graceful of dances) p. 214: guaze to gauze (with a gauze of a different color) p. 221: kneedles to needles (needles should be of the smallest size) p. 235: extra close quote removed (entered that house.) p. 244: extra "the" removed (in the highest and lowest classes) p. 260: returnes to returns (she returns from her bridal tour) p. 278: double quotes to single quotes ('Appetite,' says Dr. Combe, 'revives after repose.') p. 305: extra "a" removed (containing a mixture in equal portions) p. 318: extra "of" removed (four ounces of butter) p. 326: inpair to impair (impair the color) p. 340: acquired to acquires (till it acquires)