The Diners Out Handbook: A Pocket Handbook on the Manners and Customs of Society Functions - Hardcover

Miles, Alfred H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908402954 ISBN 13: 9781908402950

Publisher: Old House Books, 2014

Synopsis

This charming pocket handbook is a complete guide to the manners, customs and etiquette of the glamorous 1920s. 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, witty self-expression. As lively and amusing as it is useful, this is a vintage reproduction of a Gatsby-era pocket guide to courtesy, style and elegance in the age that redefined them.

About this title

About the Author

Alfred Henry Miles was a prolific Victorian era author, editor, anthologist, journalist, composer and lecturer.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Old House Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908402954
• ISBN 13: 9781908402950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224