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

to call on my friend while she is visiting in the house of one with whom I have no acquaintance, or with whom I have severed all pleas­ant connections? This is a frequent perplexity, and requires a satisfactory answer. It is eminently 32 Encyclopaedia of Etiquette proper to call on a friend without knowing her hos­tess, but the caller must ask to see, and leave a card for, the mistress of the house. If acquaintance is claimed with the hostess as well as with the visitor, the caller should ask to see both. But it is never permitted to call upon a visitor in a family with which the caller is at enmity. When a member of society announces the presence of a woman guest in her house, it is the polite custom for her friends, both men and women, to call as promptly as possible upon the guest and before offer­ing her any hospitalities. INVITING AN ACQUAINTANCE TO CALL T HE elder or the married woman usually assumes the initiative in inviting a younger or an un­married woman to exchange cards and calls with her. On the first meeting, or even

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