Etiquette and Social Life

Be Clever and Avoid Such Etiquette Slips… you got a compliment and fell all over yourself. But compliments like everything else in social life, are just a matter of etiquette.

So embarrassing! You looked so sophisticated and charming to the vacation crowd. Then you got a compliment and fell all over yourself. But compliments like everything else in social life, are just a matter of etiquette. If you receive them with a titter and “Aw, you don't mean that,” you betray a sad lack of manners. But if you smile graciously, say, “You're nice to say so,” you show poise and breeding.

And how it helps to have a reputation for perfect manners. Invitations a-plenty for the girl who knows enough not to rise when she's introduced to men; who says good-bye to the sponsors at a dance; who to an apology says a quiet, “It doesn't matter.” And so few invitations come to girls who don't. Know what's expected of you at dances, dinners, motoring— all occasions. — Santa Ana Journal Home Service, 1937

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