to Prospective Fathers-in-Law--A Correct Form of Letter to a
Society Matron Asking Her How About that Grocery Bill for
Eighty-Two Dollars and Sixty-Seven Cents--Love
Letters--Correspondence of Public Officials---Letters to
Strangers--Letters to Newspapers, Magazines, etc.--Invitations,
Acceptances and Regrets.

IX. THE ETIQUETTE OF DINNERS AND BALLS
Formal Dinners in America-Table Manners for Children--Removing
Stains from Gray Silk--A Child's Garden of Etiquette--Etiquette
in the School--Conversation at Dinner--What a New Jersey Lady Did
with Her Olive Seeds --Stewart's Lightning Calculator of Dinner
Table Conversation--"It Seems that Pat and Mike"--Balls and
Dances---Artificial Respiration--Mixed Dancing--Hints for Stags.


A Word of Warning and Encouragement




CHAPTER ONE: THE ETIQUETTE OF COURTSHIP

A FEW WORDS ABOUT LOVE

Courtship is one of the oldest of social customs, even antedating
in some countries such long-established usages as marriage, or
the wearing of white neckties with full evening dress. The
beginnings of the etiquette of courtship were apparently
connected in some way with the custom of "love" between the