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

This custom, however, has largely disappeared. When a woman receives a call from one of her own sex whose friendship she does not care to cultivate, etiquette demands a very prompt leaving of cards in return, or a return of the call within three days. Thereafter cards can be left at long intervals until the connection is dropped by common consent. It not infrequently happens that a lady on driving to a house to call finds her friend's automobile at the door; but she should still proceed with her call, and not make a retreat, postponing the call until another day. She will, doubtless, be informed that her friend is at home, but is going out driving at once. In that case, cards should be left as if not at home had been the reply. To put off calling to a future day is to delay the call due and to gain nothing by the post­ponement. On the other hand, it often happens in the country that a lady meets out motoring the friend toward whose house she is going to pay a call. When this is so the intended call should not be paid. Am I privileged

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