Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . : How are you?or, How is your health? should receive the response, I am verywell, thank you. After an acquaintance has been ill, the first inquiryby a friend should be one concerning health. This is a rule thatshould never be neglected : to do so would be an oversight. Kissing is a custom which the code of English and American eti INTRODUCTIONS AND SALUTATION^,. quette relegates as much as possible to the privacy of home. A kiss,the outward expression
Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . : How are you?or, How is your health? should receive the response, I am verywell, thank you. After an acquaintance has been ill, the first inquiryby a friend should be one concerning health. This is a rule thatshould never be neglected : to do so would be an oversight. Kissing is a custom which the code of English and American eti INTRODUCTIONS AND SALUTATION^,. quette relegates as much as possible to the privacy of home. A kiss,the outward expression of our closest affection and our warmest love,should never be made a public show whereat the outside world maysmile. Hence, the effusive kissing between girls and women at theirmeeting and their parting, is to be regretted as a specimen, to say theleast, of very bad taste on their part. Indiscriminate kissing ofchildren and infants is also objectionable on the score of , kisses and embraces among men are never seen in thiscountry, though, in some parts of Europe they are constantly to beobserved, both in public and
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