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How to Behave: A Pocket Manual of Republican Etiquette, and Guide to Correct Personal Habits
Samuel R. Wells
Republican etiquette sounds like a contradiction, and Samuel Wells wrote a whole pocket manual to prove it is not. Beginning with the daily bath and clean feet, he builds from personal habits to speech, dress and company, insisting that self-respect, not birth, makes the gentleman. Manners for a democracy, 1850s vintage. Politeness without a pedigree.
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218 chapters
- 1HOW TO BEHAVE
- 2A POCKET MANUAL OF Republican Etiquette, AND GUIDE TO CORRECT PERSONAL HABITS, EMBRACING AN EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD MANNERS; USEFUL HINTS ON THE CARE OF THE PERSON, EATING, DRINKING, EXERCISE, HABITS, DRESS, SELF-CULTURE, AND BEHAVIOR AT HOME; THE ETIQUETTE OF SALUTATIONS, INTRODUCTIONS, RECEPTIONS, VISITS, DINNERS, EVENING PARTIES, CONVERSATION, LETTERS, PRESENTS, WEDDINGS, FUNERALS, THE STREET, THE CHURCH, PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, TRAVELING, ETC., WITH Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies.
- 3CONTENTS
- 4PREFACE.
- 5INTRODUCTION.
- 6HOW TO BEHAVE.
- 7I. PERSONAL HABITS.
- 8I.—WHERE TO COMMENCE.
- 9II.—CLEANLINESS.
- 101. The Daily Bath.
- 112. Soap and Water.
- 123. The Feet.
- 134. Change of Linen.
- 145. The Nails.
- 156. The Head.
- 167. The Teeth.
- 178. The Breath.
- 18III.—EATING AND DRINKING.
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