To Do Exactly As Your Neighbors Do

The Most Vulgar Slang Is Scarcely Worse Than The Attempted Elegance Which Those Unused To Good Society Imagine To Be The Evidence Of Cultivation.

Nothing Is Less Important Than Which Fork You Use. Etiquette Is The Science Of Living. It Embraces Everything. It Is Ethics. It Is Honor.

Manners Are Like Primary Colors, There Are Certain Rules And Once You Have These You Merely Mix, I.e., Adapt, Them To Meet Changing Situations.

Children Are All More Or Less Little Monkeys In That They Imitate Everything They See. If Their Mother Treats Them Exactly As She Does Her Visitors They In Turn Play "visitor" To Perfection. Nothing Hurts The Feelings Of Children More Than Not Being Allowed To Behave Like Grown Persons When They Think They Are Able.

The Joy Of Joys Is The Person Of Light But Unmalicious Humor.