Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . so impossible to be entered into by any out-side individual, that any strong expressions of it appear ridiculous to athird person. For this reason it is that all extravagance of feelingshould be carefully repressed as an offense against good breeding. Man was made for woman, and woman equally for man. Howshall they treat each other ? How shall they come to understandtheir mutual relations- and duties ? It is lofty work to write upon thissubject what ou
Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . so impossible to be entered into by any out-side individual, that any strong expressions of it appear ridiculous to athird person. For this reason it is that all extravagance of feelingshould be carefully repressed as an offense against good breeding. Man was made for woman, and woman equally for man. Howshall they treat each other ? How shall they come to understandtheir mutual relations- and duties ? It is lofty work to write upon thissubject what ought to be written. Mistakes, fatal blunders, heartsand lives wrecked, homes turned into bear-gardens, tears, miseries,blasted hopes, awful tragedies—can you name the one most prolificcause of all these ? If our young people were taught what they ought to know—if itwere told them from infancy up—if it were drilled into them and theywere made to understand what now is all a mystery to them—a dark,vague, unriddled mystery—hearts would be happier, homes would bebrighter, lives would be worth living and the world would be
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