Good evening, and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight's selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get

some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly.

And off we go.

Tonight, let's continue our training in good manners with more from etiquette in society, in business, in politics, and at home, by Emily Post, author of purple and fine linen, the title market, woven in the tapestry the flight of a moth

letters of a worldly godmother etc.

Illustrated with private photographs and facsimiles of social forms.

First published in 1922,

by Funk and Wagnals Company, New York and London.

Let's pick up right where we left off in Chapter 10,

Cards and Visits. Let's begin.

Not at home.

When a servant at a door says, not at home.

This phrase means that the lady of the house is, not at home to visitors.

This answer neither signifies nor implies, nor is it intended to, that Mrs Jones is out of the house.

Some people say, not receiving, which actually means the same thing. not at home,

means the same thing.

But the not at home is infinitely more polite,

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