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his friends of both sexes is exhaustively explained in Chapter XVI on Bachelor Hospitalities.
TITLES ON MEN'S CARDS
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T IS hardly possible to be too conservative in the use of titles on visiting cards. The President and the Vice-President of the United States, Ambassadors, Justices of the higher courts, officers in the army and navy, physicians, and clergymen all
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signify their office, rank, or professions by the approved titles. Presidents of colleges, professors, lawyers, officers of militia, judges of lower courts, officers of the Naval Reserve, senators, representatives, and ministers and consuls at foreign courts and ports should remain satisfied with the simple Mr. on all cards used for social purposes. A Justice of the Supreme Court is privileged to have his cards engraved with Mr. Justice preceding either the surname or the full name, as Mr. Justice Rockwell or Mr. Justice John Dearing Rockwell. It is an unwritten law of etiquette in the army that no officer of lower rank than captain shall preface his name with
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