Introduction Etiquette
excerpts from Emily Post’s 1922 Edition of Etiquette
Best Society has only one phrase in acknowledgment of an
introduction: “How do you do?” It literally accepts no other. When
Mr. Bachelor says, “Mrs. Worldly, may I present Mr. Struthers?”
Mrs. Worldly says, “How do you do?” Struthers bows, and says
nothing. To sweetly echo “Mr. Struthers?” with a rising inflection on
“—thers?” is not good form. Saccharine chirpings should be classed
with crooked little fingers, high hand-shaking and other affectations.
All affectations are bad form.
Persons of position do not say: “Charmed,” or “Pleased to meet
you,” etc., but often the first remark is the beginning of a
conversation. For instance:
Young Struthers is presented to Mrs. Worldly. She smiles and
perhaps says, “I hear that you are going to be in New York all
winter?” Struthers answers, “Yes, I am at the Columbia Law
School,” etc., or since he is much younger than she, he might
answer, “Yes, Mrs. Worldly,” especially if his answer would
otherwise be a curt yes or no. Otherwise he does not continue
repeating her name.
~The Editor~
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When I walk through the forest glade
And listen to the leaves,
That gently rustle to and fro
Against the autumn breeze.
They speak of beauty far above
And of a loving Hand,
Sustaining all the world around
With one word of command.
I sing a song of gratefulness
To God who made the world,
And think that if we silent are
The trees proclaim His word.
~Kaylianna Selwyn~
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Pumpkin Apple Streusel Muffins
Ingredients
•2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
•2 cups white sugar
•1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
•1 teaspoon baking soda
•1/2 teaspoon salt
•2 eggs, lightly beaten
•1 cup canned pumpkin puree
•1/2 cup vegetable oil
•2 cups peeled, cored and chopped apple
•2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
•1/4 cup white sugar
•1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
•4 teaspoons butter
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 18 muffin cups or use paper liners.
2. In a large bowl, sift together 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, 2 cups sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mix together eggs, pumpkin and oil. Add pumpkin mixture to flour mixture; stirring just to moisten. Fold in apples. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
3. In a small bowl, mix together 2 tablespoons flour, 1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle topping evenly over muffin batter.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into a muffin comes out clean.
~Isabel Delacruz~
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Composer of the Month
Frank Martin, born in 1890, was born in
Switzerland to a Huguenot family, the son of a
Calvinist preacher, and the youngest of ten
children. He began writing music at a young
age, but did not receive any musical training
until he went to Geneva College to study
mathematics and physics, where he took
lessons from prominent Swiss composer Joseph
Lauber. Before his death in November 1974,
he had written 29 works, including one ballet
and an opera.
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Movie Review:
Nicholas Nickelby (2002)
Nicholas Nickelby is based off a book of the same name by Charles Dickens. The
theme of the movie is found in one of its first sentences:
“When a parent dies, that person on whom you rely on for only—everything, you
wonder who will catch you now.”
The film shows a young man in about 1850, Nicholas Nickelby, whose father dies,
and a year of his life in which he must find who will take care of his sister, mother,
and himself. Will his uncle help them? Will the Schoolmaster of Dotheboys Hall
prove generous in his employment? Is the theater the answer?
By the end, he finds that the people who can best make his family happy are kinhearted, good people who help him stand on his own feet, and that sometimes the
sweetest times come when you have ‘caught’ someone else who needs help even
more than yourself.
The movie is rated PG for childbirth scenes, and there are some whippings shown
on screen, so while the older Dickens reader themself will not be too bothered,
their younger siblings may not want to watch this movie.
Charles Hunnam is Nicholas Nickelby, Romola Garai (Emma, 2009) plays Kate
Nickelby, alongside Cristopher Plummer (Sound of Music), Anne Hathaway
(Becoming Jane) , and Jamie Bell (Tintin)
~Agatha Forsyth~
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