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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: during one-half of their existence, and, in concluding, not only plead that something deeper than fashion ought to rule the dress of sensible men and women, but beg them to believe that, -without eccentricity, they may enjoy much additional comfort, and improve the health of themselves and their families, by the exercise of real but simple science in the choice of the clothes which they wear. CHAPTER III. ENTERTAINMENTS, COMPANY, AND CONVERSATION. In considering some of the many branches of practical social science we need not confine ourselves to the strictly hygienic phases of our subject. It is indeed perhaps primarily associated with such matters as sanitary engineering, the construction and condition of dwellings, suitable dress, the nature of various kinds of food and the mode of its preparation, personal regime, and the like. But although my object in these chapters is chiefly to try to set some common-sense considerations about these things before my readers, I would on this occasion ask whether practical social science is not really concerned in the provision of what is generally understood by social intercourse, the entertainment of company, and the conduct of conversation. There is no household in which some form of hospitality fails to find a place. There is no family so wrappedup in itself as not to seek some companionship with others, and perhaps, in the routine of life, there are few occasions on which some masters and mistresses are more exercised than in entertaining their friends and acquaintance. The givers of even the humblest 'party' are often anxious, and sometimes even- nervous, about its success. They always wish that it may be creditable to themselves and agreeable to their guests. Now I make bold to say that there is a science of sociability, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217035637 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217035639 |
| Weight | 0.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 118 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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