Excerpt from Social Usages at WashingtonThe etiquette of our Federal capital differs from that of other American Cities in some respects, as has been said, but resembles it in others. The old resi dents are familiar with the peculiar feat ures of Washington customs, although even the Cave dwellers, as they are called, do not all hold the same views on certain points. To new-comers and to the great army of transient visitors the whole subject is puzzling.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.