High Society

High Society - Advice as to Social Campaigning, and Hints on the Management of Dowagers, Dinners, Debutantes, Dances, and the Thousand and One Diversions of Persons of Quality

No reader will be permitted to pass beyond this page who is not actually in society. This book is not for those who dwell in the gloom of mere respectability, or the blaze of sheer wealth. It is a pasturage intended solely for those who bask in the sunlight of the smartest society. If your name appears in all the Social Directories; if you are a member of six or eight fashionable clubs; if you never plan a dinner without unpotting a pound or so of pt de foie gras; if you never witness an opera except from an opera box; if you never go to the city except in an imported motor-car, why then just knock at the title page, open the door, walk in, take off your monocleor your turreted tiaraand make yourself perfectly at home. The artist is the director, the book a many-colored whirligig. Group after group revolves before us, while the artist smiles with an arch, faintly satiric smile, pointing out to us the weaknesses of the participants in this sacred social world, a delightfully gay throng, constantly occupied in singing, cajoling, feasting, playing, and dancing. Each of the characters in this book recognizes only one duty toward himselfnot to be boredand one law toward his neighborsnot to bore them. The wheel of the merry-go-round turns again; color is blurred with color; figure succeeds figure. Montez, Monsieur, montez, Madame. The show begins. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 56739
Author: Chappell, George S. (George Shepard)
Release Date: Mar 14, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Crowninshield, Frank, 1872-1947, Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967

Illustrator: Fish, Anne Harriet, 1890-1964