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of a marriage, should carefully leave their cards-men as well as women-on the bride's mother within a week or two after the wedding. When one who is the friend of a groom, but a stranger to the parents of the bride,
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is invited to a wedding which he or she is unable to attend, he or she does not call, but merely leaves cards on the bride's mother a fortnight after the wedding. When the members of a club or of any other organization are entertained by a lady at her home, all who were invited leave their cards upon the hostess shortly after the occasion, no matter if it was but an afternoon reception and the hostess is in no sense a calling acquaintance.
Cards may be left to inquire as to the condition of one who is ill, or to show sympathy and good feeling in the event of some great misfortune befallen a friend, or to announce a change of address, or to announce a prolonged absence, or to signify a re-entrance into society.
The act of leaving cards is simple enough. Their bearer, on ringing the doorbell,
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