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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ETIQUETTE WHAT TO WRITE WHAT TO DO WHAT TO WEAR WHAT TO SAY: 348 total pages.

confidence that the woman, naturally the more self-confident and tactful, will relieve the situation of any embarrassment. A woman resents and deplores the man who sits in her drawing room, however unpretentious it may be, in his overcoat, twiddling his hat; who fails to rise when her mother enters for a moment; who Calls 53 lounges in his chair and nurses his foot on his knee, and who exhausts her patience by nervously fidgeting and putting off the ordeal of taking leave until the lateness of the hour and the lapse of conversation fairly force him away. RECEIVING BUSINESS CALLS A MAN in receiving in his office a woman caller who is a stranger to him must rise but need not offer to shake hands. Should his time be limited,. and his private office be occupied, he may go out to meet the caller in the corridor or public office, and there standing hear her business. If she is invited into his private office, he must not receive her with his hat on or with his coat off, and he must offer her a chair, placing it so that she will not face the light.

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