Letting out a giant burp after a meal in China and Taiwan would be seen as the highest form of compliment, but not so if you were dining in Victorian England. They would be appalled if you let out ...

Sarah’s 1900s neo-classical home, which she shares with husband Gabriel in rural Iowa, is hand-decorated with elaborate ...

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A spoon is placed upside down on top of the glass to show that the water is fresh or perhaps to show its stamp, a remnant of ...

Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more etiquette, humor, cleaning, travel, tech and fun facts all week long. When it was popular: 1800s This Victorian greeting is another way of ...

Companies often try to solve this issue by hiring organizations like Dale Carnegie, Swann, FranklinCovey, or the American Academy of Etiquette ... a book. Carnegie’s ideas were a mishmash of earlier ...

Dorothy Cocks argued in her 1927 book Etiquette of Beauty ... beards—so prominent in Victorian times—essentially vanished in the first decades of the 20th century. In 1937, Pendergrast ...

Georgia’s Queen of Hearts Antiques & Interiors in Alpharetta isn’t just another antique store—it’s an expedition into a ...

There’s a magical place in Rogers, Arkansas, where time doesn’t just stand still—it’s actually for sale, neatly arranged in ...