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Title: Social Life
or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society

Author: Maud C. Cooke

Release Date: May 31, 2009 [eBook #28998]

Language: English

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SOCIAL LIFE

Or

The Manners and Customs of Polite Society

Containing

The Rules of Etiquette for All Occasions and
Forming a Complete Guide to Self-Culture
in Conversation, Dress, Deportment,
Correspondence, the Care of
Children and the Home.

by

MAUD C. COOKE,

The Well-Known and Popular Author.

Embellished with Colored Phototypes.

Buffalo, N.Y.
The Matthews-Northrup Co.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1896, by
J. R. Jones,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
All Rights Reserved.

[Illustration: GOOD MORNING.]

PREFACE.

There is much truth and force in the old saying, that "Manners make
the man." All persons should know how to appear to the best advantage
in polite society. This very attractive volume furnishes rules of
etiquette for all occasions, and is a complete guide for daily use in
all matters pertaining to social intercourse.

The first department treats of Introductions and Salu