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

of an inch wide is adopted and continued for six or eight months or a full year. Then and thereafter every sixth month the border is diminished by a sixteenth of an inch until mourning is put off entirely. On the card of a widower, since a man's card is always smaller than a woman's, the black border is always 'narrower; it is diminished from time to time by about the same graduations as on the card of a widow. When a lady, past middle age, loses her husband, she frequently chooses to wear mourning for the rest of her days, and after the first year of her loss, for the wide border of black substi­tutes a permanent bother an eighth of an inch in width. A gradual narrowing in the black border is hardly in good taste when the death betokened is that of a parent, a child, a sister, or a brother. The card for any of these relatives should, from the beginning to the end of the period of mourning, bear a black edging from an eighth to a sixteenth of an inch in width. A border a sixteenth of an inch wide is suf­ficient for the whole period in

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