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

If a maid-servant attends the door, she wears a black gown of simple design, white turn-over cuffs and collar, sometimes a white cap, and always a delicate and immaculate white apron. She does not announce visitors. She opens the street door, holds back the drawing-room portiere, and offers a small silver tray for the visitor's card. A page boy, though now seldom seen, wears black livery piped in red or yellow, or a suit of bottle green, navy blue, or brown cloth. His trousers are long-to the foot, with or without a piping of color on the outside seam of the legs; his coat is cut short on the hips, in a small point at back and front, and fastens up to the chin with many bullet-shaped brass or silver buttons. A bit of white linen shows above his standing coat collar and below his buttoned cuffs, and his hands must be clad in white gloves. He, like the maid, does not announce visitors, but simply conducts them to the drawing-room door and receives their cards. The page, however, as one of a large staff of servants, is now seldom seen.

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