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

that they find awkward. Thus, when a hostess breaks off a conversation in which she has endeavored to include two ladies previously unknown to each other, no little hesitation is often experienced as to whether the subject should be continued or be allowed to drop. The latter is often found to be the easier course. Or perhaps a few desultory remarks are made, and then the two ladies separate. Then, at departing, should persons rather unceremoniously introduced offer to shake hands, or bow; or should they take no notice of each other? Which is the right thing to do? Or, suppose some such indirect introduction has been made by a hostess after dinner, and the two ladies introduced have found congenial topics and con­tinued their conversation, what should they do on taking leave; and at a future meeting, should any recognition take place? Ought they to speak, or merely to bow, or should they look as if they had not previously met? Finally, when a gentleman has been indirectly introduced to a young girl, and has talked to her a little, and perhaps given her some tea

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