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The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners

A GUIDE AND MANUAL FOR LADIES,

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AS REGARDS THEIR

CONVERSATION; MANNERS; DRESS; INTRODUCTIONS; ENTRE TO SOCIETY; SHOPPING; CONDUCT IN THE STREET; AT PLACES OF AMUSEMENT; IN TRAVELING; AT THE TABLE, EITHER AT HOME, IN COMPANY, OR AT HOTELS; DEPORTMENT IN GENTLEMEN'S SOCIETY; LIPS; COMPLEXION; TEETH; HANDS; THE HAIR; ETC., ETC.

WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS AND ADVICE IN

LETTER WRITING; RECEIVING PRESENTS; INCORRECT WORDS; BORROWING; OBLIGATIONS TO GENTLEMEN; OFFENCES; CHILDREN; DECORUM IN CHURCH; AT EVENING PARTIES; AND SUGGESTIONS IN BAD PRACTICES AND HABITS EASILY CONTRACTED, WHICH NO YOUNG LADY SHOULD BE GUILTY OF, ETC., ETC.

BY MISS LESLIE.

AUTHOR OF "MISS LESLIE'S CELEBRATED NEW COOKERY BOOK," "MISS LESLIE'S NEW RECEIPTS FOR COOKING," ETC.

Philadelphia: T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, 306 CHESTNUT STREET.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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