Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Victorian courtship etiquette

For girls...
  • Never gossip
  • Always cultivates a positive attitude
  • Intelligence is not encouraged, nor is any talk of politics
  • Break bread or roll into morsels so as to appear dainty.
  • A young lady should be expected to shine in the art of conversation, but not too brightly.

2 comments:

  1. Funny how some things never change. I still try to shine dimly during conversation while eating crumbs to appear dainty.

    Also I own that very same hat.

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  2. To spare you the trivialities of the online world, I will tell you that I genuinely laughed out loud at this comment. You may be dainty eating your crumbs but you'd drown in that hat.

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