Mrs. Oliver Harriman's Book of Etiquette: 3

Another etiquette lesson from 1942!

Travel tips:

• In planning any trip, your first concern, of course, is luggage. If you can pack all your belongings in suitcases without resorting to a trunk, for goodness' sake do so.
  
• Before you start out on a trip, as well as while en route, forego the pleasure of eating raw onions or limburger cheese.
  
• After leaving port, don't entertain members of the opposite sex in your cabin.
  
• Unless you know exactly what you want to eat, have a waiter come to your room with a menu. It's perfectly proper to receive him in pajamas or a negligee.

The Proper Clothes for Women:

• "You may have the greatest product on the market, but if it's not attractively packaged it won't sell." That certainly goes for you and me as well as for that box of soap flakes on the grocery counter.
  
• Nothing is uglier or more ludicrous than a somewhat portly female clad in pajamas.
  
• I personally do not like to see rough tweed skirts and Brooks sweaters in the city. Nor do I care for washable pastels or white shoes in town in the summer.
  
• Remember, shorts and tennis dresses should be worn only on the tennis court, never on the golf course.

Questions and Answers:

• After eating a half of grapefruit with a spoon, is it permissible to squeeze the last bit of juice into the spoon by picking up the grapefruit in one's hand?
  No. Forego the remaining juice. You must never pick up the grapefruit.
  
• Do women servants ever wait on table at a formal dinner?
  No, formal service requires men.
  
• Is it in good taste to admire objects in a friend's house?
  Of course. Naturally, if you dislike them, you will say nothing.
  
• Should a mother put colored nail polish on the nails of her little girl?
  No. This would be very bad taste.
  
• When playing mixed doubles, who takes charge of the balls?
  The man supplies himself and his partner with balls.