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Excerpt from Manners for Girls But now they have but little to complain Of in that respect. Quite young girls are allowed to dine late with the family, instead Of being found in the drawing-room with the gover ness when the elders return to it after dinner. Girls Of fifteen or sixteen are allowed to join river parties, garden parties, and other entertainments from which Old-fashioned mothers would carefully exclude them until after they had 'come out'; and in a score Of other ways the schoolgirl merges into the young lady.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.