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

hands to the servant who answers the call the two, three, or more re­quisite engraved slips, saying, For Mr. and Mrs. Blank, or for Mrs. and the Misses Blank. CARDS BEFORE AND AFTER A FUNERAL A S SOON as a death is announced the friends and acquaintances of the deceased, or of the family, should leave their cards in person at the house of mourning. Sometimes a brief expression of sympathy is written in pencil on such cards; it is better taste, however, to write nothing on them. A husband and wife, leaving their cards together, hand Cards 77 the servant at the door four cards-two of the husband's and two of the wife's. Very often a mar­ried couple leave, instead, two of their joint cards-one intended for the parents and one for the adult sisters and brothers of the deceased. The same number of cards is required when a man loses his wife or a woman her husband, if there are grown children surviving. Should a married woman lose one of her parents, her friends leave their cards upon her at her own door and also upon her surviving parent.

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