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

34 Encyclopaedia of Etiquette of men friends, and frankly offer and grant them the hospitalities of her parents' house. To-day the custom of entertaining at dinner before the dance or ball has largely done away with individual chaperon-age. The debutante is more apt, instead of going directly to the dance accompanied by her mother, to attend a dinner previous to it, and then to pass on to the dance in company with her dinner companions and their hostess. This course has the advantage of more easily securing dancing partners since the young people reach the dance in a group and since the men in any case owe it as a courtesy to their hostess to dance with the young girls who have been her guests. Often, moreover, when the dance is not preceded by a dinner, a number of young people go to it to­gether under collective chaperonage. No small amount of discernment is necessary in order that a young woman may make very sure before-hand that the privilege of calling upon her is really desired. It is hardly wise to ask a man on a casual first

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