Part 21
Are you laying up any mental riches for your old age? I know an old lady so feeble that she cannot stir from her chair, and whose eyes have failed so that she cannot tell day from night, and who is so deaf that she cannot be read to, but who passes her days delightfully reciting to herself whole cantos of Scott and Byron and recalling word for word chapters of Dickens and Thackeray and Miss Austen. Her mind to her a kingdom is, in which she finds entertainment and amusement. Will you be amused or bored when you are in your nineties and have nothing but your own society? I know another woman, middle-aged, who is deliberately laying up a treasure of memories of travel to solace her in her old age. She will never know a dull moment, for she will have something to think about besides her rheumatism and her diet when she sits alone in the twilight of life.
Old age comes to us all. Don’t let it find you empty-handed or empty-minded. Thus shall you make it a time of happiness instead of torment.
_The Blue Book of Social Usage_—
Etiquette
In Society, In Business, In Politics, and At Home
_By EMILY POST_
“The most complete book on social usage that ever grew between two covers.” There are 24 pages about introductions and greetings, 7 about street conduct, 13 on conduct at the theatre, 10 on conversation, 25 on cards and visits, 33 on invitations, 12 on teas, 61 on dinners, 12 on breakfasts and suppers, 26 on balls and dances, 12 on “the debutante,” 12 on matrimonial engagements, 33 on preparations for the wedding, 35 on “the day of the wedding,” 23 on funerals, 58 on letters, 22 on dress, 9 on the clothes of a gentleman, 34 on the well-appointed house, 24 on traveling at home and abroad.
The author is a shining figure in society and her charming and popular book is accepted everywhere as the authoritative Blue Book of Social Usage. Illustrated.
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_The Blue Book of Personal Attire_—
How to Dress Well
A valuable treatise by an authority which considers dress for women from both the artistic and the practical view-points, and provides sound information on the principles of tasteful and attractive apparel. Not only does this book give details for enhancing one’s personal appearance, for slenderizing the stout, for broadening the slender, for the selection of headwear and other accessories, but also practical guidance for the selection and testing of materials, choosing of laces and furs, budgeting the dress allowance, and for the care and up keep of the wardrobe. It is brimful of the very information pertaining to dress, color, and toilet accessories about which every woman hesitates to accept any but truly trustworthy advice and is a fitting companion to Emily Post’s “Etiquette.” Modistes, designers, dressmakers, and milliners will also find this work of highest value. Illustrated.
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The Blue Book of Cookery And Manual of House Management
_By ISABEL COTTON SMITH_
_With an Introduction by Emily Post, Author of “Etiquette”_
This is not “just another cookbook,” but an original and authoritative guide for the preparation of foods and for house management. All the originality and importance of this volume would be of limited value unless it were written by so capable and practical an authority as Isabel Cotton Smith. It contains more than 2,000 recipes; gives complete information on the management of house and home, with invaluable suggestions for table economy, and includes everything for every season and every day in the year, for every possible repast from breakfast to late supper and from teas and picnic meals to specially designed menus for children at home and at school, as well as menus for vegetarians.
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A Woman of Fifty
_By RHETA CHILDE DORR_
This unique autobiography of a remarkable and courageous woman covers one of the most revolutionary periods of time in history—from virtually the beginning of a concerted movement to organize the women of this country in the fight for equality in politics and industry to the time when these hitherto unattainable causes were firmly established in our economic and governmental systems. As journalist, lecturer, editor, and writer, the author has taken part in virtually every event that marks her generation; was the only woman war correspondent with the famed Russian Women’s “Battalion of Death” on the last Kerensky offensive on the Eastern Front; spent three years in “after war” Europe, and is to-day in the thick of things in this country. Written in a frank, forceful, and grippingly interesting style.
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Transcriber’s Notes
pg 58 Changed: which are resonsible for more real to: which are responsible for more real
pg 61 Changed: you happen to be born in a certain relationshp to: you happen to be born in a certain relationship
pg 71 Changed: any particular trade or profesion to: any particular trade or profession
pg 101 Changed: earn her own living as a “poor working women.” to: earn her own living as a “poor working woman.”
pg 105 Changed: so far be it from me to abridge to: so far be it for me to abridge
pg 150 Changed: life better than than that of the successful to: life better than that of the successful
pg 179 Changed: he will be filled fell of pep and energy to: he will be filled full of pep and energy
pg 179 Changed: discovery that somewhow the mysterious something to: discovery that somehow the mysterious something
pg 188 Changed: she is not likely to tarnish your deal. to: she is not likely to tarnish your ideal.
pg 217 Changed: as many men starving for affection as there are woman. to: as many men starving for affection as there are women.
pg 218 Changed: reward depends altogther on his wife’s attitude to: reward depends altogether on his wife’s attitude
pg 221 Changed: their purpose when they falter and waiver to: their purpose when they falter and waver