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

his card shows he is pledged. If circumstances arise that compel him to leave a ballroom before all his en­gagements have been kept, he must go to every young lady to whom he is engaged for a dance and make proper explanations and apologies. 178 Encyclopedia of Etiquette THE GUEST WHO DOES NOT DANCE S O FEW are the cities, towns, or even small vil­lages where dancing classes are not held that there seems hardly any excuse for a man to attend a ball and refuse to dance, assigning as his reason that he does not know how. If this is strictly the truth, or if he puts little faith in his ability to guide a light-footed girl with the proper grace and deftness about a crowded ballroom, then his visible duty is to make up as far as possible for his deficiency by talking to, or walking with, ladies of the company in the intervals of their own dancing, and taking them into the supper room and attending upon their wants. No condemnation is too great for that selfish and, sad to say, not uncommon, man who accepts a host­ess's hospitality and

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