Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And MarriageJefferis, B. G. (Benjamin Grant)
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Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
Jefferis, B. G. (Benjamin Grant)
Marriage; Medicine, Popular; Sexual ethics
4. Your arm should not be given to any lady except your wife or a near
relative, or a very old lady, during the day, unless her comfort or safety
requires it. At night the arm should always be offered; also in ascending
the steps of a public building.
5. In crossing the street a lady should gracefully raise her dress a little
above her ankle with one hand. To raise the dress with both hands is
vulgar, except in places where the mud is very deep.
6. A gentleman meeting a lady acquaintance on the street should not presume
to join her in her walk without first asking her permission.
7. If you have anything to say to a lady whom you may happen to meet in the
street, however intimate you may be, do not stop her, but turn round and
walk in company with her; you can take leave at the end of the street.
8. A lady should not venture out upon the street alone after dark. By so
doing she compromises her dignity, and exposes herself to indignity at the
hands of the rougher class.
9. Never offer to shake hands with a lady in the street if you have on dark
or soiled gloves, as you may soil hers.
10. A lady does not form acquaintances upon the street, or seek to attract
the attention of the other sex or of persons of her own sex. Her conduct is
always modest and unassuming. Neither does a lady demand services or favors
from a gentleman. She accepts them graciously, always {60} expressing her
thanks. A gentleman will not stand on the street corners, or in hotel
doorways, or store windows and gaze impertinently at ladies as they pass
by. This is the exclusive business of loafers.
11. In walking with a lady who has your arm, should you have to cross the
street, do not disengage your arm and go around upon the outside, unless
the lady's comfort renders it necessary. In walking with a lady, where it
is necessary for you to proceed singly, always go before her.
* * * * *
ETIQUETTE BETWEEN SEXES.
1. A lady should be a lady, and a gentleman a gentleman under any and all
circumstances.
2. FEMALE INDIFFERENCE TO MAN.--There is nothing that affects the nature
and pleasure of man so much as a proper and friendly recognition from a
lady, and as women are more or less dependent upon man's good-will, either
for gain or pleasure, it surely stands to their interest to be reasonably
pleasant and courteous in his presence or society. Indifference is always a
poor investment, whether in society or business.
3. GALLANTRY AND LADYISM should be a prominent feature in the education of
young people. Politeness to ladies cultivates the intellect and refines the
soul, and he who can be easy and entertaining in the society of ladies has
mastered one of the greatest accomplishments. There is nothing taught in
school, academy or college, that contributes so much to the happiness of
man as a full development of his social and moral qualities.
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