PREFACE.

This book, "YOUTH'S EDUCATOR FOR HOME AND SOCIETY," is designed as a manual of correct deportment, not only for young people just entering society, but for the many older ones who have so often felt the want of proper information upon this subject. Our aim has bee» to make it simple, practical and reliable, omitting the technique of etiquette and confining ourselves to the forms and usages of true gentlemen and ladies.

Its classification is such that any subject treated in its pages can be readily found. Not only have we embraced the forms current in good society (except among those who make society their all), but we have treated kindred topics as fully and as clearly as our limited space would allow. We have tried not to forget that good sense is always good form, in the parlor as well as in the counting room, and have avoided all that savors of affectation.

With the conviction that we have prepared a complete and valuable work for the every day use of young and old we send this volume forth upon the great sea of public opinion, there to battle for the simple grace, the manly bearing, the kindly spirit and the true politeness which we hope may be the inheritance of the rising generation, Should it meet a kindly reception our labors shall not have been in vain

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