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

are safe in addressing strangers whom they en-counter in her drawing room. Americans, however, have not generally accepted this custom; and consider it better form for a hostess to introduce her guests. INTRODUCTIONS AT A DINNER PARTY T HE obligation of a hostess is to introduce all of her guests to one another at a small dinner party. At a large dinner she must be sure to intro-duce those persons who are placed beside each other at the table, and to make as many more presentations as she can contrive without disturbing her guests. She must not, however, introduce persons at the 10 Encyclopedia of Etiquette table; and she should not obviously incommode her-self to make introductions. If, in accordance with a passing custom, the women collect in the drawing room after dinner, the hostess can contrive to make known to one another those who have not previously met. As the men come in, after their cigars, she may present them to the ladies whom they did not meet before dinner was announced. If, as is more frequently the custom nowadays,

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