“ETIQUETTE”: When the gardens of Versailles were being laid out, the gardener put up warning signs or tickets—“etiquettes”—to protect the newly-seeded lawns indicating the proper paths. Louis XIV ordered everyone to keep within the “etiquettes.” Gradually it came to cover all the rules for correct deportment.
I am alone tonight thinking, John, of you who are working so heard at the bank—for me, John, for me? I have not kept my mind on my book. “Delicate aura of charm that radiates from the bursting bud of the finest womanhood.” Ah, that I might be an example.
“ETIQUETTE”: When the gardens of Versailles were being laid out, the gardener put up warning signs or tickets—“etiquettes”—to protect the newly-seeded lawns indicating the proper paths. Louis XIV ordered everyone to keep within the “etiquettes.” Gradually it came to cover all the rules for correct deportment.
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ContextThis is the journal of Virginia Lee Scott, my grandmother, written when she was seventeen and first dating my grandfather, John Arnold Wilson. It's a dairy published by Media Drug Stores and includes space for two entries per day, with facts about the era printed at the bottom, which I have included in italics. Following, 1928, is the journal of John Arnold Wilson, my grandfather, at age nineteen and in love with my grandmother, followed by my grandmother's journal in 1931. Archives
April 2018
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