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8 Rules of Business Etiquette for the Gentleman From a Manners Manual of the 1880s

Business. [1.] FORM GOOD HABITS. It is important for the young man learning business, or just getting a start in business, to form correct habits, and especially of forming the ...

March 26, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
The Gentleman’s Guide to Self-Mastery From an 1890s Manual on Cultivating Self-Control, Character

The Kingship of Self-Control MAN has two creators,—his God and himself. His first creator furnishes him the raw material ...

March 23, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
A Gentleman’s Rules for Cultivating Moral Values in the Home—From an 1880s Manual on Manners

Home Culture. The work of home culture should be made a matter of great importance to every one, ...

March 19, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
How to Be a Gentleman: A Politeness Handbook From 1875 Explains What ‘True Courtesy’ Really Is All About

TRUE COURTESY. POLITENESS is the art of pleasing. It is to the deportment what the finer touches of ...

February 26, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
Vintage Advice for Gentleman: Etiquette for the Date, Hanging With the Boys, or Just Chillin’ Alone

Here is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. Hartley, ...

February 18, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
50 (More) Tips for Cultivating Gentlemanly Manners From an Etiquette Handbook From the 1800s

The following excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. Hartley, published ...

February 12, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
50 Tips for Cultivating Gentlemanly Manners and Conduct From an 1800s Handbook on Etiquette

The following is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. ...

February 5, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
How to Make a Party Pleasant: Party Etiquette for the Gentleman From an 1800s Handbook on Manners

The following is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. ...

February 3, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
Rules for Church From a Vintage Gentleman’s Guidebook on Manners From the 1800s

The following is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. ...

January 28, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
‘Manly Exercise’ Etiquette: A Vintage Gentleman’s Manual Instructs on Boxing, Sports, Physical Fitness

The following is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. ...

January 24, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
Master the Dancefloor: A Gentleman’s Guide to Ballroom Etiquette—From a Classic Manual on Manners

The following is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. ...

January 15, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
‘Never Criticize Any Dish’: A Gentleman’s Guide to Table Manners, From an 1875 Manual on Etiquette and Politeness

The following is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. ...

January 4, 2023BY Epoch Inspired Staff
How to Conduct a Conversation Like a Gentleman—From a Manual on Etiquette and Politeness From 1875

The following is an excerpt from "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" by Cecil B. ...

December 17, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
A Guide to Gentlemanly Manners While Travelling Based On an Etiquette Manual From the 1880s

THERE is nothing that tests the natural politeness of men and women so thoroughly as traveling. We all desire ...

December 11, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
How to Have Table Manners Like a Gentleman From an 1800s Manual on Etiquette in High Society

Table Manners and Etiquette. IT is of the highest importance that all persons should conduct themselves with the strictest ...

November 14, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
How to Write a Letter (or Email) Like a Gentleman—According to a Handbook on Manners From the 1880s

Some will surely find the art of writing letters indispensable in the task of drafting emails so necessary in ...

October 9, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
How to Do Greetings Properly, Like a Gentleman—According to an Etiquette Manual From the 1880s

CARLYLE says: "What we call 'formulas' are not in their origin bad; they are indisputably good. Formula is method, ...

September 17, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
Gold Rush Daze (1939)

A gentleman listens to a gas station attendant talk about his adventures panning for gold. A Classic Warner ...

August 24, 2022BY Epoch Cinema
How to Dress Like a Gentleman—or Gentlewoman—From an 1880s Manual on Etiquette and Good Manners

TO dress well requires good taste, good sense and refinement. A woman of good sense will neither make ...

August 5, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
Gender Roles of Husband and Wife in the Home Based on 1880s Gentleman’s Etiquette Manual

The husband, in fact, should act toward his wife as becomes a perfect gentleman, regarding her as the ...

July 4, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
A Gentleman’s Instruction Manual From the 1880s Explains How to Have Manners, ‘General Rules of Conduct’

IN society, everybody should receive equal attention, the young as well as the old. A high authority says, "If ...

May 26, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
Vintage Dating and Courtship Etiquette According to a Gentleman’s Handbook From the 1880s

THE correct behavior of young men toward young ladies, and of young ladies toward young men, during that ...

February 7, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
How to Master the Art of Conversation Like a Vintage Gentleman—From a Manual on Manners From the 1880s

The following is an excerpt from “Our Deportment,” a code of manners for refined society by John H. ...

January 13, 2022BY Epoch Inspired Staff
‘Where Are All the Men?’ This Vintage Manual on Manners From the 1880s Can Make a Gentleman Out of You

The following is an excerpt from "Our Deportment," a code of manners, conduct, and dress of refined society ...

December 31, 2021BY Epoch Inspired Staff
A Gentleman Eats a Lady’s Mistakes

“Can you do me a teensy-tiny favor?” my wife asked in that little girl voice she uses whenever ...

January 7, 2019BY Con Chapman

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