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

or Mrs. Eleanor Phillippi Leith. Mrs. Donald Craig Leith is, however, considered better form. She should never use her maiden surname with the name of her dead husband, as: for example, Mrs. Harrison Leith, Mrs. Leith's maiden name having been Harrison. This combination is used only when it signifies divorce. USE OF JR. AND SR. JUNIOR, or the contraction Jr., is sometimes added to the name on the card of a lady whose husband bears the same name as his father, in order Cards 59 to give a distinguishing mark between the cards of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. If the mother-in-law, in such an instance, should lose her husband, and at the same time wish to retain his baptismal names upon her card, she might then add the explana­tory abbreviation Sr., while her daughter-in-law would erase the Jr. from hers. Should both ladies lose their husbands, and both wish to retain on their cards the husband's Christian names, the younger must add Jr. on her cards. Instead of adding Senior or Junior to her visiting cards, a woman, if she

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