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

not take another man to call upon ladies of his but not of his friend's acquaintance, without first asking and receiving permission to do so, except in the case of ladies whom he has known long and rather intimately. A young man who is desirous of the privilege of calling upon a young woman is permitted to seek the good offices of some common friend to secure for him this permission and to introduce him to her house. When she has con­sented to receive him, he is not entitled to make his first call alone, but must be accompanied by the man or woman who has secured for him the privilege. But after that he is entitled to call alone. PERPLEXING POINTS IN CALLING O NLY by persons who are changing their place of residence or departing for an absence that is to endure for a year or more are calls paid to bid Calls 31 farewell; and then usually only one's nearest and most intimate friends are so honored. Formerly it was the custom for one going on a journey to leave for or to post to visiting acquaintances, P. p. c. cards or "cards of departure:'

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