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

have had to be adapted. The formal call paid by women on women on Sunday afternoons was formerly tabooed like that paid in Calls 23 the morning or the evening. Now, however, many women who are unable to set a day at home or to make visits during the week issue at home cards to all their friends, for one Sunday in the month, reserving the other three for the fulfillment of their social obligations. If their business hours permit, they will doubtless prefer to choose a week day. A business woman who lives alone and uses her apartment for her workshop may still, even if she is unprotected from interruptions by the service of a maid, politely signify that she is "not at home" to callers by the use of a slip-signal placed above her card outside or given to the telephone operator or janitor. On her day at home she gives orders to the service men to admit her callers without announce­ment and thus facilitates her presence at the tea-table or with her guests. In the evening it is quite proper for her, if she lives alone, to entertain men callers.

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