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Some Broader Aspects of Prohibition--Interesting Effect of Whisky
on Goldfish--The College Graduate as Dry Agent--Aunt Emily's
Amusing Experiences with a Quart of Gin Planning a Dry Raid on a
Masquerade Ball A Word About Correct Costumes--A California
Motion Picture Actress's Bad Taste--Good Form for Dry Agents
During a Raid-What the New York Clubman Said About Mr. Volstead.

VI. A CHAPTER FOR SCHOOLGIRLS
Selecting a Proper School--Account of an Interesting Trip Down
the Eric Canal with Miss Spence--Correct Equipment for the
Schoolgirl --En Route--ln New York--A journey Around the
City--Description of the Visit of Ed. Pinaud to the Aquarium in
1858--The First Days in the New School--"After Lights" in a
Dormitory--An "Old Schoolgirl's" Confessions--Becoming
Acclimatized--A Visitor from Princeton-Strange Pets.

VI. THE ETIQUETTE OF GAMES AND SPORTS
Golf as a Pastime--What Henry Ward Beecher Said When He Broke His
Niblic--An Afternoon at the Old Farm with the Dice--"Shoot you
for your ear trumpet, grandfather!"--Correct Behavior on a
Picnic--A Swedish Nobleman's Curious Method of Eating Potato
Chips--Boxing in American Society--A Good Joke on an Amateur
Boxer--"He didn't know it was Jack Dempsey!"--Bridge
Whist--Formal and Informal Drinking--A jolly Hallowe'en
Party -- Invitations -- Receiving the Guests--How to
Mystify--Games.

VIII. CORRESPONDENCE AND INVITATIONS
Correspondence for Young Ladies--College Boys How to Order a Full
Dress Suit by Mail --Letters to Parents--A Prominent Retired
Bank President's Advice to Correspondents--Letters from
Parents--Peculiarities of the Divorce Laws of New York--Letters
to Prospective Fathers-in-Law--A Correct Form of Letter to a
Society Matron Asking Her How About that Grocery Bill for
Eighty-Two Dollars and Sixty-Seven Cents--Love
Letters--Correspondence of Public Officials---Letters to
Strangers--Letters to Newspapers, Magazines, etc.--Invitations,
Acceptances and Regrets.

IX. THE ETIQUETTE OF DINNERS AND BALLS
Formal Dinners in America-Table Manners for Children--Removing
Stains from Gray Silk--A Child's Garden of Etiquette--Etiquette
in the School--Conversation at Dinner--What a New Jersey Lady Did
with Her Olive Seeds --Stewart's Lightning Calculator of Dinner
Table Conversation--"It Seems that Pat and Mike"--Balls and
Dances---Artificial Respiration--Mixed Dancing--Hints for Stags.


A Word of Warning and Encouragement