How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 171
r your conversation with her, Five minutes only are allowed for one conversation. Two or more consecutive engagements with one person arenot allowable. When engagements are made and programmes 154 Summer, filled, the hostess, or anyone willing to be time-keeper, mustring a bell giving notice that… … The time-keeper should be strictly attentive to her duties, forthe bell must be rung regularly at the end of every five minutes. The hour allotted to this new mode of conversation will passvery quickly, and cannot become in the least tiresome, as thetime spent in talking to any one person is so…
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