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

But if she is discreet, she does not permit them to stay later than ten-thirty, nor does she, after the theatre or the opera, allow them to come up to her apartment for a late supper or a chat, but parts from them at the public entrance. WHEN MEN CALL T HE American man, because of the exactions of his business, is allowed to pay his calls in the evening and on Sunday afternoons. If he calls in 24 Encyclopedia of Etiquette the evening, it is customary now for him to telephone beforehand and to ask the requisite permission. In fashionable society in the large cities a gentleman may present himself at a lady's door after half-past eight or even as late as nine o'clock in the evening. In society which keeps earlier hours than are kept in New York, say, or Boston, a caller may arrive at eight. Sunday afternoon calls begin at four o'clock. The specification, however, of these times and sea-sons does not preclude a young man or a married one, for that matter, from paying his call on a lady's day at home. In the country men are privileged to call in the morning.

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