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

in place of paying a personal call, or sending them by post or messenger. This practice is now passing out of vogue, except at Newport and other fashionable sum­mer resorts where the season is both brief and crowded. But there are circumstances in which cards may properly be left or posted; when an elderly lady or semi-invalid or woman in deep mourning desires to offer this courteous recognition of calls made upon her or of invitations which she has received. A very busy hostess owing a dinner call or first call to a friend to whom she is eager, however, to extend an invitation, is privileged, for lack of time and opportunity, to substitute her call with a card left on the friend, or may post her card with the engraved or written invitation. A man or woman unable to accept an invitation extended by a hostess to whom he or she is a stranger must, within a fort-night after the entertainment, leave cards in due form. Persons invited merely to the marriage ceremony on the occasion of a church wedding, and those who receive cards in announcement

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