2/18/2024 0 Comments Gentle reader emily post![]() It seriously addresses EVERYTHING you could possibly wonder about. I highlighted a lot of amusing or interesting passages on my Kindle, I will have to come back and add some of them in. In the 20s, apparently the kids DIDN'T rule the house. ![]() There is a section on teaching children manners that should be read and implemented by many parents today. Especially which family owned the country house with bowling alley, ballroom, and indoor pool! Post uses fake names of socialites throughout to illustrate different concepts, but I suspect they are based on real socialites and I sure would like to figure out who was who. Even though I'd probably have been unable to remember all the different scenarios and what to do in each. It's a truly fascinating look at high society in NYC in the 20s, and I can't get enough of it. This book covers all that, plus weddings, mourning, business, traveling, social clubs, meeting royalty, and more. And you have to manage all these lists without Excel! (But you can hire a personal secretary on a part-time basis). Don't even get me started on your country house. But you wouldn't invite someone to a dinner or supper party who was not part of your main list. Different dress, different food, different service, different etiquette. And the list has subsets: you'd invite everyone on it to a ball, but you have a separate list for those you'd invite to a dinner party, and another for those you'd invite to a supper party, and yes, those are different events. Sometimes you may actually visit with them, sometimes you just leave the card with the butler. One day a week, you go to these peoples' houses and leave a card with your name on it, except that you can't go two weeks in a row because they have to leave a card at your house before you can go back to theirs. This is your social life: you have a list of people who are your friends or acquaintances. ![]() Imagine, it's 1922 in NYC and surrounding areas (the author's typical focus, she advises people in other areas to follow local customs). I read the Kindle version of the first edition, published in 1922. The Chinese sage, Confucius, could not tolerate the suggestion that virtue is in itself enough without politeness, for he viewed them as inseparable and "saw courtesies as coming from the heart," maintaining that "when they are practised with all the heart, a moral elevation ensues." Consequently, the kinship between conduct that keeps us within the law and conduct that makes civilized life worthy to be called such, deserves to be noted with emphasis. On the other hand, the blunt, unpolished hero of melodrama and romantic fiction has lifted brusqueness and pushfulness to a pedestal not wholly merited. The polished gentleman of sentimental fiction has so long served as the type of smooth and conscienceless depravity that urbanity of demeanor inspires distrust in ruder minds. There is no intention in this remark to intimate that there is any higher rule of life than the Ten Commandments only it is illuminating as showing the relationship between manners and morals, which is too often overlooked. Though it may require ingenuity to reconcile their actions with the Decalogue-the ingenuity is always forthcoming. But the Commandments do not always prevent such virtuous scoffers from dealings with their neighbor of which no gentleman could be capable and retain his claim to the title. Many who scoff at a book of etiquette would be shocked to hear the least expression of levity touching the Ten Commandments. There is a convenient, active table of contents, and this work has been formatted for your Kindle. This edition is illustrated and annotated, with detailed information about Emily Post and also the Emily Post Institute.
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