From the Book - Regular Print
1 Everyday Etiquette 13 --
A Letter of Apology 15 --
About the Effect of Intemperate Language 15 --
Be Good, Be Good. A Poem 19 --
An Innovative Dinner Party Signal System 20 --
About American Manners 23 --
Courtesy to Unexpected Visitors 25 --
A Telephonic Conversation 28 --
2 Modest Proposals and Judicious Complaints 35 --
Proposal Regarding Local Flooding 38 --
Complaint about Unreliable Service 41 --
Notice about a Stolen Umbrella 42 --
An Appeal against Injudicious Swearing 43 --
An Unwanted Magazine Subscription 45 --
On Telephones and Swearing 46 --
About the Proposed Street-Widening 48 --
Notice. To the Next Burglar 56 --
Suggestion to Persons Entering Heaven 57 --
Memories of Food on an American Farm 61 --
American versus European Food 63 --
An Inauspicious Meal 68 --
A Remarkable Dinner 72 --
Traveling in Close Quarters 83 --
Communicating with the Locals 85 --
A Night Excursion in a Hotel Room 87 --
Young Sam Clemens and Old-Time Doctoring 97 --
A Healthful Cocktail 101 --
Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup 104 --
Smoking, Diet, and Health at Age Seventy 111 --
6 Parenting and the Ethical Child 117 --
Late Benjamin Franklin 119 --
On Theft and Conscience 122 --
On Training Children 123 --
A Sampling of Childish Ethics 125 --
Youthful Misdemeanors 133 --
7 Clothes, Fashion, and Style 139 --
Clothes and Deception 150 --
8 In Case of Emergency 155 --
Great Earthquake in San Francisco 162 --
Escape of the Tarantulas 170 --
Burglary and the Well-Tempered Householder 173 --
Under a Policeman's Eye 176 --