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

A clergyman's card should be engraved in this manner: The Reverend Samuel D. Baxter. A physician, clergyman, or scholar may have earned the right to a splendid tale of letters after his name, the recognized abbreviations of various titles, honors, or degrees conferred upon him; but from the social visiting card it is best to omit all of this, except so much as stands for the one title by which he is commonly addressed. When for any social purpose a man has occasion to write his name on a card with his own hand he does not omit Mr. but writes his name just as it would appear if engraved. The same rules hold true for business and profes­sional women. MOURNING CARDS I N AMERICA, we have no hard-and-fast rules for the depth of a mourning border on a visiting card. An extremely broad band-for example, one half an inch wide-is regarded as too ostentatious even when used by a widow or parent. Ordinarily, in the first Cards 67 year of widowhood, a border a quarter of an inch is conventionally used. In the second year a border an eighth

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