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pulously avoided by any young lady who is ambitious of preserving the 

 exterior of a gentlewoman. 



Remember that the make of your corsage is of even greater importance 

 than the make of your dress. No dressmaker can fit you well, or make 

 ymir bodices in the manner most becoming to your figure, if the co?> 

 beneath be not of the best description. 



Your shoes and gloves should always be faultless. 



Perfumes should be used only in the evening, and then in moderation. 

 Let your perfumes be of the most delicate and rechercht kind. Nothing 

 is more vulgar than a coarse, ordinary scent ; and of all coarse ordinary 

 scents, the most objectionable are musk and patchouli. 



Finally, every lady should remember that to dress well is a duty which 

 she owes to society ; but that to make it her idol is to commit something 

 worse than a folly. Fashion is made for woman ; not woman for fashion. 



MORNING AND EVENING PARTIES. 



The morning party is a modern invention. It was unknown to our fa- 

 thers and mothers, and even to ourselves till quite lately. A morning 

 party is given during the months of June, July, August, September, and 

 sometimes October. It begins about two o'clock and ends about seven, 

 and the entertainment consists for the most part of conversation, mu-ie, 

 and (if there be a garden) croquet, lawn tennis, archery, etc. The refresh- 

 ments are given in the form of a dejetlner a la fourchette. Receptions are 

 held during the winter season. 



Elegant in >rning dress, general good manners, and some acquaintance 

 with the topics of the day and the panics above named, are all the qualifi- 

 cations especially necessary to a lady at a morning party, and "At Ho: 

 muMc and .-locution at receptions. 



An '\vifm_^ party begins about nine o'clock p. in., an 1 ends about inid- 

 iiuewhat later. Good-breeding neither demands that you 

 ild present yourself at the commencement, nor remain till the 

 the evening. You < >ni and i^> an nriy le mo>t eo:i\ enient to you, and 

 l.\ are at liherty, during tin* height of the season when e\ 



&T6 nunn-rous, to present yourself at two or three houses during 



a Mingle even 



When your naiii'- U announced, look for the lady of the h<us.-. :in<l pay 



your respe itfl tO h.T I "-fore you even Been tO Me any other of your friends 



who in iv be in the . 'nionahle receptions, the 



Jly t I.e found ii'-ar the d KM*, Sh >uld you. 1 find 



