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

WHO PAYS THE FIRST CALL B RIDES and strangers newly arrived in a neigh­borhood never make, but wait to receive, first calls. Women who have been invited to visit, or during the summer season have been entertained in, a friend's house in the country, must be among the first, as soon as their hostess returns to town, to call upon her. When there exists no previous indebted­ness on either side, and after a summer's holiday, two women arrive in their houses on very nearly the same date, the younger usually calls upon the elder first. Where the differences in their ages is very slight, the one who returns to town first makes the initial call or the unmarried calls first on the married woman. Should a member of society be in arrears for hospital- Calls 25 ity or an invitation received in the foregoing winter season, she pays the initial visit at the commence­ment of a new season, without reference to the age of her friend or the date of her friend's return to the city. Two women meeting at a watering-place, or in town at the house of a

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