A Hand-book of Etiquette for Ladies

Should your servants break anything while you are at table, do not appear to notice it.

Do not ask any one at the table to help you to anything, but apply to the servant.

The hostess should never send away her plate until all the guests have finished.

Soup must be eaten from the side, not the point of the spoon

is usual to commence with soup, which never refuse; if you do not eat it, you can toy with it

Be punctual to the hour appointed.

Invitations to dinner must of course be answered to the lady.

When you leave a party before the others, do so quietly and as little seen as possible

Invitations to a ball or evening party should be given in the lady’s name,

When visitors enter, rise immediately, advance toward them, and request them to be seated. If it is an elderly person, insist upon his occupying the arm-chair; if a lady, beg her to be seated on the sofa.