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

A young lady paying a chance call on a mother and daughters, or a hostess and friend, and being told the ladies are out, leaves two cards. Of course no young lady, any more than a matron, leaves her card for any of the men of a household. A call paid to a lady visiting in a house, whether the lady of the house is friend or stranger to the caller, requires two cards, one for the guest and one for her hostess. This is the rule whether the caller is a man or a woman. Both men and women, in paying calls in a strange city or neighborhood, write on their cards their Cards 71 temporary address-in the corner opposite that in which the permanent address is engraved. On calling at a hotel, it is a sensible precaution to write on the card sent up, or left, the name of the person for whom it is intended. CARDS WHEN PAYING CHANCE CALLS A SOMEWHAT different disposition of cards is required when a call is made without any pre­vious assurance of finding the person called upon at home. The caller usually takes the requisite number of cards from

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