Several schools or academies where the elements of etiquette and good manners are taught to the New Rich—war millionaires, profiteers, speculators, and the rest—have recently been established in Berlin. The head of one such institution, a lady of the old aristocracy, guarantees to teach the usages of good society within three months. In her prospectus she refers to her clients not as war profiteers, but as "people who, in one way or another, have been elevated by the war to a higher social level than that which they previously occupied."
The head of another school for etiquette has published for her pupils a set of regulations. of which the following are typic It is the height of ill-breeding to convey the food from the plate to the mouth by means of the knife; practise using the fork.
No gentleman sits down to table before a lady, not even alien. the lady is his wife.
Colour in a woman's dress is essential, but harmony is even more important. A woman who wears a green costume, blue coat, and white hat, and carries a pink sunshade, is not likely, no matter how much they cost, to make ladies jealous.
In a confectioner's shop do not finger cakes you do not propose to_buy.
Treat the musicians you have at your receptions with the courtesy you pay to your Stock Exchange friends. The fact that you pay them well will not justify rudeness.
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