The national encyclopædia of business and social forms, embracing the laws of etiquette and good society (1879)
McCabe, James Dabney, 1842-1883. [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, Chicago [etc.] The National publishing co · leaf 128
the privilege of rendering another lady an important service in giv-ing her information or advice, or even assistance. Every lady of experienceand self-possession should feel her duties to be only less than those of a gen-tleman in showing favors to the more helpless and less experienced of her… … There is nothing more important to the happiness of a lifetime than a rightselection in marriage. The holy estate of matrimony is not an engagemententered into to-day to be broken at any subsequent time. It is an arrange-ment which must shape our destiny here, and largely influence our…
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