The guide offers practical, rules-based advice for social behavior, detailing proper forms of introduction, visiting protocol, and the use of invitation and announcement cards. It provides guidance on entertainments and domestic occasions, covering dinners, teas, receptions, wedding customs and gifts, table service, and the duties of hosts and servants. Advice on personal presentation and public conduct addresses dress, gloves, street and travel etiquette, bicycling, and telephoning. Separate chapters treat funerals and mourning, child and schoolroom manners, chaperonage and marriage, while sections on conversation, official and business correspondence, and general hints round out a comprehensive manual of courteous conduct.