Stick Horse Cowgirls

We finally settled down and were able to come together (just V and C) to do the drawing--only a month late! Our lives have been, ummmmmm, let's say tumultuous. The bright side: it might be said that there is lots of fodder for future posts. Our lives have been... whirlwinds!!!!! Or you might say that life just kind of... Avalanched! We are back and not going away--in fact, we both have real need to let you in on all that is going on here. Thank you for your patience. (V's hubby says we've lost all credibility in this venture--hope not. Please bear with us one more time. You have no idea....yet). Now, for the prize! As you may recall, V and I had envisioned a "ceremonial" drawing...not to be. Mother-in-law is laid up with her hip (more about that later), and V's life imploded about the same time as C's did, so we dispensed with the ceremony. We drew out of the "hat," and the winner is... KathyB of Spot on Cedar Pond!! We wi...

As promised in my last post, this is your chance to WIN!! If you read the previous post, you will see that I am intrigued by by-gone etiquette rules. I have two copies of this book, one dating from 1945 (for which you can all vie) and one from 1950. The questions I am asking below are from the 1950 book because I had not yet dug the other one out when I starting composing this one. The topics we cover in this quiz seem foreign to me, and we think they will to most of you, since the classes are so mixed up these days. Emily, herself, notes this trend. You can almost hear her sniff as she says in her introduction on Page xii: The smart and the near-smart...are all mixed up together. The walls that used to enclose the world that was fashionable are all down. Even the cartracks that divided cities into smart and not-smart sections are torn up. And, I must say, V and I probably hail from the "not-smart" side of the tracks...sigh. Okay, here are the rules (such as they are...