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

exchanged between women in the morning or in the evening, unless business is to be transacted or an interview has been arranged by special appointment. Though a telephone call is now more customary, it is permissible, for a woman, to make a morning call for the purpose of in­vestigating a servant's recommendation; to ask a lady, though a stranger, to serve on a committee for charity work, or to inquire after a friend's health. Such calls are not reckoned on the social account. It is the rule, when calling upon a stranger, or an ac­quaintance whose name is not on one's visiting list, or on a friend with whom some matter of business is to be discussed, not to time the interview on the lady's afternoon at home, if she keeps one. It is also the rule not to prolong such calls unduly; 22 Encyclopedia of Etiquette that is, beyond the time it requires to state the mis­sion of the call and settle the business involved, un­less, of course, the person called upon chooses to do so. The day at home is a purely social occasion, and calls to congratulate,

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