niece to ask loudly, "What's
that funny looking man going to do, Aunt Dotty?"

Then follows the religious ceremony.

Immediately after the church service, a reception is held at the bride's
home, where refreshments are served and two hundred and forty-two
invited guests make the same joke about kissing the bride. At the
reception it is customary for the ushers and the best man to crawl off
in separate corners and die.

The wedding "festivities" are generally concluded with the disappearance
of the bride, the bridegroom, one of the uninvited guests and four of
the most valuable presents.

{illustration caption = The man of culture and refinement, while
always considerate to those beneath him in station, never, under any
circumstances, loses control of his emotions for an instant. Though
the gentleman-rider in the picture may be touchingly fond of his
steeplechase horse, it is unpardonably bad form for him to make an
exhibition of his affection while going over the brush in plain view of
numbers of total strangers. In doing so he simply is making a "guy"
of himself, and it is no more than he deserves if those in the gallery
raise their eyebrows at each other and smile knowingly.}

{illustration caption = The Romans had a proverb, "Litera scripta
manet," which means "The written letter remains." The subtle wisdom of
these words was no doubt well known to the men of the later Paleolithic
Age before them, but evidently the gentleman in the engraving
never heard of it. If he had kept this simple little rule of social
correspondence in mind he would have avoided the painful experience
of hearing his obsolete emotions exposed to the eager ears of twelve
perfect strangers. It is customary nowadays for unmarried elder sons
of our most aristocratic families to express their appreciation of
the qualities of fascinating bachelor girls over the sensible, though
plebeian, telephone.}

CHAPTER THREE: THE ETIQUETTE OF TRAVEL

The etiquette of travel, like that of courtship and marriage, has
undergone several important changes with the advent of "democracy" and
the "mechanical age." Time was when travel was indulged in only by the
better classes of society and the rules of travellers' etiquette were
well defined and acknowledged by all. But Yankee ingenuity has indeed
brought the "mountain to Mahomet"; the "iron horse" and the "Pullman
coach" have, I believe, come to stay, bringing with them many new
customs and manners