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George H. Sandison. How to Behave and How to Amuse: A Handy Manual of Etiquette and Parlor Games
How to Behave and How to Amuse: A Handy Manual of Etiquette and Parlor Games
Table of Contents
PREFACE
HOW TO BEHAVE
Introductions
Bowing and Salutations
Calls and Calling Cards
Style of Cards
Cards for Ladies
Men’s Dress
A Young Lady’s Début
Dinner Parties
How to Set the Dinner Table
The Wine Question
Notes for Diners
Breakfasts, Luncheons, Teas and Suppers
Luncheons
The Kettle-Drum
“High Teas.”
Dancing
Wedding Etiquette
Invitations
Church Weddings
Wedding Breakfasts
Home Weddings and Private Weddings
Wedding Gifts and Other Gifts
Wedding Anniversaries
Notes About Weddings
New Year’s Day Calls
Christenings and Birthdays
Mourning Etiquette
The Etiquette of Correspondence
Behavior in Church
VARIOUS POINTS ON DEPORTMENT
Polite Terms of Address
Faulty Social Training
Tactful Hostesses
A Young Girl’s Social Life
Innocent and Sinful Pleasures
Treatment of Servants
Management of the Hands
Posing for Effect
Winking and Dozing in Public
Beautifying the Hands
Causes of Deformed Feet
Care of the Teeth
Awkwardness in Sitting
About Blushing
STRAY HINTS
Enjoy the Present Hour
Make Home Attractive
A Sunny Temper
Value of Female Society to Man
Home Maxims
True Politeness
Mock Modesty
The Art of Conversation
When “Small-Talk” is Timely
Monopolizing Talkers
A Point on Being Well Dressed
Enjoy Your Youth
The Superior Hostess
A Useful Hint
HOW TO AMUSE
The Dancing Egg
The Old Family Coach
The Game of Quotations
Crambo
Pictured Quotations
Cross Questions
The Game of Rhymes
The Five-Straw Puzzle
French Rhymes
Where’s Your Letter Going?
The Divided Pear
The Game of Bouquet
Example
The All-Around Story Game
Tongue-Twisters
To Balance a Pencil on its Point
My Grandfather’s Trunk
How, When and Where
“I Love My Love.”
To Drive a Needle Through a Cent
Proverbs
Tossing The Rings
Magic Figures
The Force of the Breath
Hunt the Ring
Shadow Buff
Magic Music
Going to Jerusalem
Bean-Bags
Throwing the Handkerchief
Blind-Man’s Buff
A Queer Candlestick
To Weigh a Letter with a Broomstick
The Tailless Donkey
Boston
What is Your Age?
What, Sir? Me, Sir?
Horse
Rooster
Consequences
Mesmerizing
Guessing Eyes and Noses
Beast, Bird or Fish
Truth
Needles and Pins Made to Float
Shadows on the wall
Hit or Miss
Going Shopping
The Three Matches
To Spin a Cent Upon a Needle Point
Counting Apple-seeds
Spin the Plate
Lighting the Candle
A Problem in Gymnastics
Redeeming Forfeits
The Game of Location
The Game of Clumps
Ant and Cricket
Gussing Characters
The Magic Candle Extinguisher
The Broken Mirror
A Parlor Zoetrope
A Wonderful Pin
Shadows on the Wall
The Rotation of the Globe
Through the Water Dry
Hanging Without a Cord
The Magic Scorpion
Amusing the Children
GAMES OF ARITHMETIC
HOW TO TELL ANY NUMBER THOUGHT OF
ANOTHER WAY
A THIRD WAY
A FOURTH WAY
How to Tell Numbers Thought of
Gold and Silver Game
The Number Bag
The Mystical Number Nine
The Magic Hundred
To Guess The Missing Figure
The King and the Counselor
The Nails in the Horse’s Shoe
The Dinner Party Puzzle
Basket and Stones
LIVING PICTURES
i. Dignity and Impudence
ii. The Fortune-Teller
iii. Faith
iv. Hope
v. Charity
vi. Single Life
vii. The Sailor’s Farewell
viii. Home Again
Various Tableaux
THE WAXWORKS GALLERY
i. The Chinese Giant
ii. The Two-Headed Girl
iii. The Sewing Woman
iv. Captain Kidd and his Victim
v. The Siamese Twins
vi. The Celebrated Dwarf
vii. The Vocalist
viii. The Yankee
ix. The Cannibal
x. Babes in the Wood
xi. Little Red Riding-Hood
xii. Lady with Golden Locks
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
Raising a Ghost
A Magic Lantern Trick
The Phantasmagoria
Chinese Shadows
A Wonderful Mirror
The Disappearing Paper
Multiplied Money
SLEIGHT OF HAND
To Balance an Egg
The Juggler’s Lunch
Ring and Ribbon
The Changing Ball Trick
A Sensitive Goblet
To Light a Candle by Smoke
The Magic Re-illumination
Fascinated by a Feather
The Moving Ball
The Paper Furnace
Storm and Calm
The Knotted Thread
The Imps of the Bottle
The Bird in the Box
The Multiplying Mirror
The Half-dollar Upheld
The Bowing Beau
The Vanishing Wafers
The Cut Lace Joined
Vanishing Dime
The Adhesive Stick
The Magic Thread
The Long Pudding
The Changeable Watch
The Vanishing Ring
The Handkerchief Trick
The Canary in the Egg
The Money Box Trick
A Startling Metamorphosis
A Volcano Under Water
The Magic Spoon
Magic Dyes
Incombustible Paper
Visible and Invisible Portraits
The Dancing Egg
To Put an Egg in a Bottle
The Ice Candle
The Changing-Colored Ribbon
Consulting the Oracle
The Witch’s Cave
The Four Elements
Phosphoric Oyster Shells
Flaming Phosphorus
A Mask of Flame
A Miniature River on Fire
The Illuminator and Extinguisher
To Light a Candle by a Glass of Water
PUNCH AND JUDY
THE “ART” EXHIBITION
Exhibition of the Works of Living Artists. CATALOGUE
Part I. WORKS OF ART
Explanation
CONJURING WITH COIN
Passes
Palming
The Vanishing Trick
Heads or Tails
Odd or Even; or, the Mysterious Addition
To Rub One Dime Into Three
The Capital Q
The Wandering Dime
The Magic Cover and Vanishing Pennies
The Pepper-Box, for Vanishing Money
A Nest of Boxes
The Ball of Berlin Wool
MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
The Raisin Tortoise
The Lemon Pig
The Seasick Passenger
The Enchanted Raisins
The Demon Lump of Sugar
The Mysterious Production
The Family Giant
The Animated Telescope
“The What-do-you-Think?”
The Giraffe
The Dwarf
The Two Hats
The Knight of the Whistle
“He Can Do Little.”
“Throwing Light.”
Multiplying Shadows
The Vanishing Knots
The Dancing Sailor
CONUNDRUMS AND RIDDLES
Conundrums
Enigmas
Answers to Conundrums, Enigmas, Etc
REBUSSES
THE FOLLOWING ARE REBUSSES ON THE NAMES OF BIRDS
ANAGRAMS
LOGOGRIPHS
1
2
4
SOLUTIONS TO REBUSSES
SOLUTIONS TO ANAGRAMS
SOLUTIONS TO LOGOGRIPHS
CHARADES
JUVENILE GAMES
“What d’ye Buy?”
“A Trip To Paris.”
The Cook who Doesn’t Like Peas
Word-making
The “Young Folks’ Concert.”
Mary’s Little Lamb
Funny Outlines
