![]() ![]() ![]() Bloomfield-Moore’s answer is that the society of the best people, desirable for its own sake, is also morally uplifting if one learns to act like them, one will be allowed to keep their company. But it did nicely articulate the issue every etiquette writer has faced, and that none has passed over in silence-how to explain why good manners are important. Bloomfield-Moore’s book was funny even in 1878. Manners and morals are indissolubly allied, and no society can be good where they are bad.” Ward,” wrote in Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society: “It is the duty of American women to do all in their power toward the formation of so high a standard of morals and manners that the tendency of society will be upward instead of downward. Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior.Ī little more than a hundred years ago, Clara Sophia Bloom-field-Moore, alias “Mrs. ![]()
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