What Would Mrs. Astor Do? by Tichi, Cecelia -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Splendors of the Gilded Age Mrs. Astor Speaks Millionaires’ Row

Fifth Avenue Mansions Decoration of Houses Servants and Their Duties

Convenience or Contraption

Electric Lighting Elevators Telephone

Competitive Consumption

Ladies’ Mile Gentlemen’s Emporia Tea Rooms and Luncheons

Best Dressed

The Hat Makes the Man The Walking Stick: The Essential Gentleman’s Accessory The Plume Trade, or, Decorating with Nature Color Harmony For All Occasions

Well Behaved

Ward McAllister, Autocrat of Conduct How to Navigate a Public Encounter Correspondence Cards, Visits, and Calls Parties and Balls

Parties Balls

Gilded Age “Cinderella” Seen but Not Heard What They Read

Dinner Is Served

The Proper Place Setting New York’s Elegant Restaurants

Delmonico’s Sherry’s

The Lobster: From Prison Fare to Haute Cuisine Enter Escoffier The Grain and the Grape

The Social Set

To See and Be Seen

Peacock Alley The Palm Court

Theater and Opera Stage-Door Johnny Central Park Club Life Newport Slumming It: Entertainment on the Lower East Side

The Sporting Life

Boating Polo Bathing Tennis Archery and Croquet Golf Cycling

Getting There

Horse Power Motor Cars Private Rail Cars Steamships Yachts

Money Talks

Gospels of Wealth Wall Street Top-Drawer Schools

For Girls For Boys

Dollar Princesses Newspaper Wars

The Whiff of Scandal

Divorce and Mrs. Astor Inexcusable Deadly Triangle: Nesbit, White, Thaw

On the Scene: Boldface Names in New York

Diamond Jim Brady (1856–1917) Nellie Bly (1864–1922) Jack London (1876–1916) Lillian Russell (1860–1922) Buffalo Bill (1846–1917) Front-Page Girls

Muckrakers Funerals Mrs. Astor’s Four Hundred Acknowledgments Selected Sources Illustration Credits About the Author