Identifier: oursociety00ives (find matches)
Title: Our society
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Ives, Alice Emma Beecher, Henry Ward, Mrs., 1813-1897 Williams, Cora May. (from old catalog) Foley, John Samuel, Bishop, 1833- (from old catalog) Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth, 1846-1918
Subjects: Etiquette Physical education and training
Publisher: Detroit, Mich., Darling brothers & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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VISITORS AND VISITING
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IGH-STRUNG, busy,.intense life is characteristicof the advanced civilizationof our country to-day.The man or woman whois not devoted to a profes-sion, trying to compass agreat ambition, or in therace for riches, wherethere are so many com-petitors, is at least inpursuit of pleasure with the same unresting, feverishhaste. There are very few women, possessed of averagehealth, whose day is not rilled with a programmewhich is regularly carried out, more or less success-fully, as circumstances will allow. True, the massof unconsidered trifles of which such days are made, mayseem of little moment to one of grave aims, but to him whoselife is made of trifles, each one is of vast importance. The help of to-day has arrived at a point where eithera radical revolution or the deluge must be close at hand.Lack of training, incompetence, impudence and independence 13« VISITORS AND VISITING. 139 on the part of the help, and ill-trained, inexperienced, unreas-onable, or thoroughly bad mistresses, ar

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