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

than Mrs. Philip H. Brown; Miss Mary Ellsworth Brown, than Miss Mary L. Brown; and unmarried women, as a rule, forbear the use of diminutives such as Mamie, Maggie, Polly, and Sadie on their calling cards. 58 Encyclopaedia of Etiquette The senior matron of the oldest branch of a family may, if she pleases, drop her husband's Christian name from her cards, and let the card read simply, for example, Mrs. Venables; and her eldest unmarried daughter is entitled to omit her own Christian name, and use a card reading, for example, Miss Venables. Where, however, there are several families of the same name in a city or community, all mingling more or less in one circle of society, this is apt to create confusion in the minds of their friends and the safest course is not to omit the identifying Christian names. WIDOW'S CARD A WIDOW is privileged either to retain her husband's Christian name on her card, or to substi­tute for it her own; as, for example, the widow of Donald Craig Leith may have her cards read either Mrs. Donald Craig Leith

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