Imagen adjunta: User: My son is going on a first date with a young lady. What suggestions do you have for him?
talkie-1930: Tell your son to conduct himself towards the young lady with perfect courtesy, and nothing more. Let your injunctions to him be brief and simple. Desire him to treat her respectfully, and not to annoy her. If she willing to walk out with him, let him walk out with her quietly and orderly. In going to public places, let him bear her company honestly and soberly. If she desire to dance, let him dance with her, moderately; if she wish for refreshment, let him refresh her, but moderately too; and, generally, in all things let his behaviour to her be marked by manly propriety and good feeling, rather than by ardent demonstrations. Above all, let him avoid gallantry. Gallantry is a pleasing, but dangerous style of address to a female, and one which may easily be carried too far. Let your son be gallant in nothing, except in raising his hat to the young lady when she passes him, and in assisting her into a carriage, or out of it...
User: My son is going on a first date with a young lady. What suggestions do you have for him?
talkie-1930: Tell your son to conduct himself towards the young lady with perfect courtesy, and nothing more. Let your injunctions to him be brief and simple. Desire him to treat her respectfully, and not to annoy her. If she willing to walk out with him, let him walk out with her quietly and orderly. In going to public places, let him bear her company honestly and soberly. If she desire to dance, let him dance with her, moderately; if she wish for refreshment, let him refresh her, but moderately too; and, generally, in all things let his behaviour to her be marked by manly propriety and good feeling, rather than by ardent demonstrations. Above all, let him avoid gallantry. Gallantry is a pleasing, but dangerous style of address to a female, and one which may easily be carried too far. Let your son be gallant in nothing, except in raising his hat to the young lady when she passes him, and in assisting her into a carriage, or out of it...
@bruces I was hoping for more period slang. “That Hugo is the cat’s pajamas! If you’re a hep cat that thinks a gobble-pipe playing gut-bucket over the ether is just like being at a juke joint wingding downing giggle juice, or you like scribbling that will leave you gobsmacked, he’s the bee’s knees!”
