First Edition Your Manners are Showing by Betty Betz
Your Manners are Showing: The Handbook of Teen-age Know-how. 1946, First Edition by Betty Betz with verses by Anne Clark. 95 pages.
Betty Betz was a fashion copywriter for Harper's Bazaar Magazine as well as a columnist for Seventeen Magazine and Women's Home Companion. She authored books for teens and young adults during the 1940s and 50s. In addition she was a cartoonist with a line of goods with her cartoons.
The following description is from the inside fold of the dust jacket.
"What's your dating rating? Are you ever baffled by the right fork at the wrong time? Do blue moods besiege you? Do you have money troubles, parent problems or clothes jitters? Would you like to be more popular?
It you're like most teen agers, these are just a few of the every day problems which come up one time or another. So here's the book that was written especially for you. YOUR MANNERS ARE SHOWING is the bright and sensible low-down designed to help you put your best foot forward in every social situation.
These gay illustrations, breezy verses and simple gems of good advice make it easy for you to remember the basic rules of good behavior which are essential for smooth, smart operating. Introductions, invitations, letters, waiters, dates, visits, parties, table manners, cigarettes or small talk will never seem so tough again after you've read Betty Betz' slant on how to handle them.
Why wait until it's too late to insure your social success when YOUR MANNERS ARE SHOWING makes it easy and fun to be popular?"
This charming book is in good condition with the dust jacket in fair condition further protected with over wrap. The illustrations and verses are wonderful and could charm even the most surly teen!
