LESSON XVI. AND LAST. Important and necessary Observations.
Reading edition
In all cases of apoplexy, fainting, or illness in general, it is requisite to loosen or even remove the Cravat immediately.
The greatest insult that can be offered to a man, comme il faut, is to seize him by the Cravat; in this case blood only can wash out the stain upon the honour of either party.
The Cravat should invariably be loosened before the commencement of study, or of any important business.
Those who have a short neck, high shoulders, a round, full, and fresh coloured face, and who are at all subject to head aches, beatings of the temples, &c. should be most careful to wear the Cravat loose; the neglect of this precaution will generally produce an attack of the complaint to which they may be liable.
Those who are accustomed to sleep in the Cravat, should be most careful in examining whether it be loose. In all cases of organic diseases of the heart, or large vessels, &c. it should be entirely prohibited.
Lastly.—Every person at all accustomed to travel, and who has the least respect for his appearance, should provide himself with a box for containing a collection of Cravats.
This box must be divided into several compartments, and be made of the following proportions; eighteen inches in length, six inches in width, and twelve in depth, it should contain,
1 A dozen (at least) of plain white Cravats.
2 The same quantity of spotted and striped white Cravats.
3 A dozen coloured ditto.
4 Three dozen (at least) shirt collars.
5 Two whalebone stiffeners.
6 Two black silk Cravats.
7 The small iron mentioned in the first lesson.
8 As many copies as possible, of this important and useful work, taking the precaution of having them well bound, that they may occupy less room.[2]