Good advice for us all from Catharine Sedgwick
I was in the archives the other day, reading Catharine Sedgwick's Morals of Manners, published in 1846, and came across some advice that I thought would be fun to share:
“If you hear men or women in the street, or in company, in a car, or a steamer, talking much and loudly of themselves and their own affairs, set them down as ill-bred. They may wear fine clothes, and be in high company, but believe me they are ill-bred.”
“The best seat, my dear girls, is not your right, and should be accepted with some acknowledgment.”
“To help yourself first at a table, and to look out for the nice bits, and the large portions, is coarse selfishness, not to be tolerated in those who assemble around a table, instead of a trough, and who make their food a social blessing.”
Posted on June 21, 2005 12:02:10 AM EDT
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