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

society, a card must be left for every individual, and this lavish distribu­tion was required on the occasion of every call. To-day card etiquette is so simplified and system­atized that any man or woman can follow it without danger of serious errors. The majority of calls between women are ex changed on their appointed days at home, and then the cards are usually left by the caller on the tray in the hall as she passes through on her way to the drawing room: If the call is the first she has paid that season in that house, she puts into the tray one card of her own and two of her husband's. There-after, during the season, she need not again leave her own card, if her subsequent calls are made on the Cards 69 friend's day at home. She still leaves two of her husband's cards, however, if her call is made in return for any entertainment to which he has been asked and if her hostess is a married woman. If her hostess's unmarried daughters receive with their mother the caller need not leave any cards for them, even though they are in society.

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