Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight let's continue our lessons in gentility

with more from etiquette, in society, in business, in politics, and at home, by Emily Post,

author of purple and fine linen, the title market, woven in the tapestry, the flight

of a moth, letters of a worldly godmother, etc, etc.

Illustrated with private photographs and facsimiles of social forms.

Published in 1922 by Funk and Wagnell's company, New York and London,

and copyright under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the Pan American

Republics and the United States, August 11th, 1910.

Let's pick up where we left off in Chapter 2, introductions,

and a small discursive moment about New York's bad manners.

New York's bad manners are often condemned and often very deservedly.

Even though the cause is carelessness rather than intentional indifference, the indifference

is no less actual, and rudeness inexcusable.

It is by no means unheard of that after sitting at table next to the guest of honor, a New Yorker will meet her the next day,

with utter unrecognition.

Not because the New Yorker means to cut the stranger or feels the slightest unwillingness to continue the

acquaintance, but because few New Yorkers possess enthusiasm enough to make an effort to remember all the new faces they come in

contact with, but allow all those who are not especially fixed in their attention to drift easily out of mind and recognition.

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