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How to Have Table Manners Like a Gentleman From an 1800s Manual on Etiquette in High Society

November 14, 2022
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Table Manners and Etiquette. IT is of the highest importance that all persons should conduct themselves with the strictest regard to good breeding, even in the privacy of their own homes, when at table, a neglect of such observances will render one stiff and awkward in society. There are so many little points to be observed,…

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Got Table Manners? Here Is the ‘Proper’ Dinner Party Conduct From an 1800s Manual on Etiquette

March 7, 2022
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The following is an excerpt from “Our Deportment,” a code of manners for refined society by John H. Young A.M., published in 1881. We offer it in hopes of promoting gentlemanly conduct among men—young and older—in today’s often unbalanced world. IT is of the highest importance that all persons should conduct themselves with the strictest…

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