Ideal Conversation Must Be An Exchange Of

Manners Are Made Up Of Trivialities Of Deportment Which Can Be Easily Learned If One Does Not Happen To Know Them.

Manners Are A Sensitive Awareness Of The Feelings Of Others.

The Joy Of Joys Is The Person Of Light But Unmalicious Humor.

The Letter We All Love To Receive Is One That Carries So Much Of The Writer’s Personality That She Seems To Be Sitting Beside Us, Looking At Us Directly And Talking Just As She Really Would, Could She Have Come On A Magic Carpet, Instead Of Sending Her Proxy In Ink-made Characters On Mere Paper.

The Good Guest Is Almost Invisible, Enjoying Him Or Herself, Communing With Fellow Guests, And, Most Of All, Enjoying The Generous Hospitality Of The Hosts.