The perfect gentleman is he who never unintentionally causes
pain.--OLD PROVERB




TO THE BRIDEGROOM WHOSE WEDDING WAS RUINED
BECAUSE THE BRIDE CAME DOWN THE AISLE
ON THE RIGHT INSTEAD OF THE LEFT
ARM OF HER FATHER
With Deepest Sympathy




Contents

Chapter
I. THE ETIQUETTE OF COURTSHIP
A Few Words about Love--Curious Incident in a Yellow Taxicab--A
Silly Girl--Correct Introductions and how to Make Them--A
Well Known Congressman's Ludicrous Mistake in a Turkish
Bath--Cards and Flowers--Flowers and their Message in
Courtship--"A Clean Tooth Never Decays"--Receiving an
Invitation to Call--The Etiquette of Telephoning-A Telephone
Girl's Horrible End--Making the First Call--Conversation and
Some of its Uses--A Proper Call--The Proposal Proper-The Proposal
Improper--What Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Said to the
ex-Clergyman's Niece.