Questionable Advice

Don't bathe when drunk

Don't you people have homes to go to?

~ Every Day Home Advice and The Practical Business of Life, Containing The Best and Most Practical Advice in Household Management, 1882

~ Advice to Freshmen, University of Michigan,by Lionel G. Crocker, 1921

Video of Vernon and Irene Castle demonstrating a proper dip (without grotesque attitudes!) starting at 1:09 in the 1915 film The Whirl of Life

~ STOP! A Handy Monitor, Pocket Conscience and Portable Guardian against the World, the Flesh and the Devil, Nathan D. Urner, 1884

Don't make eye contact with the help, ladies

~ Social Customs, Florence Howe Hall, 1887

"Strangely enough, there are places in this civilized world where mobs are permitted and encouraged to attack people . . . whose creed and race are not approved by the party in power." "Heaven forbid that the people of this country will ever have such an intolerant attitude toward any of its citizens"

~ Female Beauty: or, The Art of Human Decoration by Ernest Feydeau, 1874

Wise words from W.J. Sprunger

*Sigh* Servants are such a bother

~ The Correct Thing in Good Society, by the Author of “Social Customs”, 1888

~ The Sunday Morning Star (Wilmington, DE), April 23, 1939