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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ETIQUETTE WHAT TO WRITE WHAT TO DO WHAT TO WEAR WHAT TO SAY: 348 total pages.

8 Encyclopaedia of Etiquette it is to take the initiative on this point, will not greatly err in offering her hand. RISING TO RECEIVE AN INTRODUCTION A HOSTESS invariably rises to accept an intro­duction to either a man or woman. A woman, while a guest at a dance, dinner, or afternoon tea, does not rise when a man is presented to her; nor when she is one of a group to which a woman is intro­duced, unless it is one who is somewhat older than herself or a person of distinction, or unless she is seated beside her hostess, who, naturally, rises to greet a newcomer. In all other circumstances a woman rises to receive an introduction to one of her own sex. It is scarcely necessary to say that a man always stands when any introduction takes place in which he has part, whether the person to whom he is made known is man or woman, old or young. It is discreet and polite to give attention when a stranger is presented, in order to catch the name; but on failing in this, a woman introduced to a person older than herself has a right to ask,

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