IN 1838!
The “Golden Cockerel Press” has reprinted the “Ladies’ Handbook of Etiquette,” out of print since 1838. The following extract points well the difference in parental outlook between Then and Now: “Ask the father, before the movings of ambition have calcined his heart — ask him if he would commit the innocence of his child to the pollution of the waltz? Ask the mother, before the demon of fashion has taken possession of her feelings and shut her eyes to the unhallowed nature of many of its rites —ask her, can she consent to «*ommit her daughter promiscuously to the arms of each waltzer—could she see, without the severest self-reproach, the blush of conscious shame, of an intuitive sense of impropriety, mantling in the cheek of her child.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 May 1927, Page 5
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128IN 1838! Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 May 1927, Page 5
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