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

gently, Will you not tell me whom I have the pleasure of meeting, for I did not catch your name ? To a person nearer her own age she may say, with less formality, Mrs. Brown called you Miss Jones, did she not? The same rules apply as well to men. A guest is not at liberty to refuse recognition of an introduction made by the host or hostess, though the Introductions person presented should be an enemy of long stand­ing. It must be presumed that the hostess is ignor­ant of the true situation, and it is, therefore, no injury to one's dignity to bow politely, as if meeting for the first time a total stranger; later, any further inter-course can be tactfully avoided. WHEN TO INTRODUCE A HOSTESS is entitled to make all and any in­troductions she sees fit. Into some parts of America has crept the English custom of letting the roof answer as an introduction; for in fashionable London society a hostess takes it for granted that her guests understand that she would invite none but well-bred persons to her house, and that, therefore, they

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