The Diners Out Handbook: Etiquette in the Jazz Age

by Alfred H. Miles

Overview

This charming pocket handbook is a complete guide to the manners, customs and etiquette of the glamorous '20s. Each chapter gives detailed instructions for a specific type of social event: what to expect, how to dress, suggested yarns for the raconteur and instructions for deft self-expression. As lively and amusing as it is useful, this is an expert reproduction of a vintage, Gatsvy-era guide to courtesy, style and elegance in the age that redefined them. *This is a faithful facsimile edition, and may contain terms offensive to some readers.*

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783660131
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/10/2014
Series:	Old House
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Alfred H. Miles

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The art of conversation is not that of talking all the time. It is the art of drawing the best out of others, and contributing the best of one's own to the general treatment of the subject under discussion.

An offer of marriage is the highest compliment a man can pay to a woman, and as such should not be lightly undertaken and ungraciously received...The true lover will take care to show the utmost consideration for the feelings of the lady, and as a man of honor will only make such a proposal under circumstances which leave her quite free to accept or reject...Acceptance with a view to an engagement is usually followed by an interview with the lady's father or natural guardian...This ordeal successfully passed, the accepted lover presents the lady with an engagement ring.