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How to Do It

by Hale Edward Everett

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A self-help essay by Edward Everett Hale, an American author of the nineteenth century, a clergyman, editor, abolitionist and the author or editor of more than sixty books—fiction, utopian novels, travel, sermons, biography and history. This is a Victorian era view of how to conduct yourself, how to talk, read, write, what to read, how to travel and go into society, live with children and your adults, and even habits to develop for church.

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...in New York. "Shall I call you 'girls' or'young ladies'?" said I. "Call us girls, call us girls, " was the unanimousanswer. I heard it with great pleasure; for I took it as a nearly certainsign that these three hundred young people were growing up to be truewomen, --which is to say, ladies of the very highest tone. "Why did I think so?" Because at the age of fifteen, sixteen, andseventeen they took pleasure in calling things by their right names. So far, then, I trust we understand each other, before any one begins toread these little hints of mine, drawn from forty-five years of very quietlistening to good talkers; which are, however, nothing more than hints. How To Talk. Here is a letter from my nephew Tom, a spirited, modest boy of seventeen, who is a student of the Scientific School at New Limerick. He is at homewith his mother for an eight weeks' vacation; and the very first eveningof his return he went round with her to the Vandermeyers', where was alittle gathering of some...