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

be excused. The dullest man should understand what is meant. WOMEN'S BUSINESS CALLS A WOMAN never calls upon a man socially. A business errand is the only occasion for a call from a woman to a man; and in such a case the lady, if possible, sees the clergyman, editor, lawyer, physician, merchant at his office and during his office hours. Whether she calls by appointment or otherwise, she sends in her name or a note of introduction, but not her visiting card. If she is a business woman, she may send in a business card. She should in any case state her errand as briefly as possible, and should remember that in their offices men do not, as a rule, care to discuss social or domestic topics. A woman, when she is obliged to call upon a man at his house and does not know his people, should be accompanied by a male relative or by a woman older than herself; and she should send up her name, and make her call quite short. It is absolutely essential for her to be chaperoned, if she is obliged to call at a bachelor apartment or at a studio. Under

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