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

to their loss and grief, to avoid all but impersonal topics of conversation until the moment of departure arrives. Then, with a warm hand-clasp, it is ade­quate to say, It was good of you to see me. My mother begs to be remembered with warmest sympathy. Persons in affliction should not receive calls of condolence unless they are sure of their self-control. No obligation rests upon them to refer directly to the loss, and their visitors will understand the motive of their reticence. Calls of congratulation are now warranted only by intimacy or a friendship of long standing. They are paid to an unmarried woman by both her women and men friends when her engagement to marry is made public, and to a married woman by her woman friends when the birth of a child is announced. CALLS OF INQUIRY A CALL to inquire is nothing more than a form of card leaving. A sympathetic message, per­haps a box of flowers, and the visitor's card are left with the servant at the door of a house where, for example, there is illness; or where a great financial

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