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Title: The Etiquette of To-day

Author: Edith B. Ordway

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THE ETIQUETTE OF TO-DAY

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BY EDITH B. ORDWAY

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GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY
NEW YORK

THE ETIQUETTE OF TO-DAY

REVISED AND ENLARGED

BY

EDITH B. ORDWAY

Author of "The Opera Book," etc.

NEW YORK
GEORGE SULLY AND COMPANY

_Copyright, 1918_
BY SULLY AND KLEINTEICH

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_Revised Edition, Copyright, 1920_
BY GEORGE SULLY AND COMPANY
_All rights reserved_

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PREFACE

THE customs of social life need frequent restating and adaptation to
new needs. They are customs because they are the best rules of conduct
that have been garnered from the experiences of succeeding generations
under common conditions.

To know them, to catch their spirit, and to follow them in an
intelligent way, without slavish punctiliousness but with careful
observance, make one skillful in the art of social intercourse, and at
home in any society.

Etiquette will not take the place of character, nor of an accurate
knowledge of human nature and the arts of practical life. Given these,
however, it will unlock to any man or woman doors of success and
profit and real happiness which, without it, would have remained
forever closed.

E.