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

26 Encyclopaedia of Etiquette the preliminary call of welcome on their friends who put up at near-by hotels. In large cities it is not the custom for established residents of a street to call upon strangers who have moved into the neighbor-hood; and in New York, Boston, and Chicago families live for years without making or desiring the ac­quaintance of their next-door neighbors. In small towns and country districts just the opposite is the rule, and strangers expect to be formally and grace-fully welcomed into the society of the neighborhood by the first calls of the leading matrons and their families. These calls should not be too long delayed, but be made as soon as the strangers have settled in their new home, at whatever calling hour is the fashion in that town or locality. To wait six months or a year before calling on new neighbors is scarcely a compliment, unless illness or bereavement can be offered as an excuse. OBLIGATORY CALLS I T IS not only a civility, but a social necessity, when one has served as a bridesmaid, maid

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