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

T HE afternoon at home is a very simple function. By four o'clock, the mistress of the occasion, in an afternoon gown, is in her drawing room ready to greet whoever comes. A butler or maid stands ready to answer the door bell. To the visitors, soon after they arrive, afternoon tea is served. If a butler attends the door he wears his full evening livery. A well-trained man servant, on answering the bell, leads the way to the drawing room, at the door of which he respectfully asks the caller's name; and then, drawing back the portiere and standing aside, he announces the name at the moment the visitor enters. On the departure of visitors, he stands ready in the hallway to open the street door, to assist gentlemen into their coats, and, in event of bad weather, to hand ladies to their carriages under the shelter of an umbrella. Sometimes the servant on duty offers the visitor a small silver tray on which to deposit cards, or a large tray is set conspicuously 42 Encyclopedia of Etiquette in the hall into which the cards can be cast as the caller passes toward the drawing room.

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