Vincent’s Hospital, where she helps a woman in labor and onward to Penn Station, escaping a mugging by trading her mink coat for a young man’s jacket. but only to the extent that civility is honest and reasonable, not merely the mindless handmaiden of propriety.”īack on New Year’s Eve, Lillian reaches Battery Park hikes to a party of young artists in Chelsea ambles past St. Please note that I do not call my faith ‘politeness.’ That’s part of it, yes, but I say civility because I believe that good manners are essential to the preservation of humanity. Later, the minor literary celebrity produces an etiquette book. In her 20s, Lillian begins writing light verse soon her volumes win accolades. Lillian relishes the food and conversation before she vanishes, paying the entire bill and heading down to the Hudson River. Until - in one of many serendipitous moments - a woman invites her to join their family. She’s famished now, but can’t get seated. Tonight’s next stop is Delmonico’s in Lower Manhattan. “And I did get a small frisson from thinking of Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, who earned $15,000 per year when I was pulling down over $30,000.” Talented and conscientious, Lillian reaches the top by 1935. She meets her new BFF, Helen, at their Christian Women’s Hotel together they gad about the big city. Young Lillian graduates from Goucher, then lands a plum job in Macy’s ad department.
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