Show SOCIAL ETIQUETTE Manners and Customs Practiced in Polite Society I am always at home at luncheon 01 We lunch at two or Pray come tc luncheon any day you like or Wont you come homo with us to luncheon or Youre coming to luncheon today are you not area are-a few of the verbal invitations given to this social meal and accepted as unceremoniously as given for in many houses guests are expected ex-pected every day at luncheon as a matter of course places are laid as a rule and seldom left vacant and these luncheons are most pleasant as the guests generally speaking are the intimate friends of host and hostess and not mere acquaintances tho talk is therefore easy if not confidential There are as it were two rules as regards luncheon One is always beat home at that I hour and rarely if ever to accept an invitation invita-tion for that meaL Theother is to accept invitations in-vitations to luncheon and to give written invitations in-vitations say three days in each week according ac-cording to engagements not by way of giving a luncheon party but of asking friends from time to time whom convenient to meet at this hour more than at any other the numbers varying from two to sis as the case may be The general idea among guests and one that is wel gvpjved by hostesses is to getaway get-away SOQr cyst Oho Neon a short stay being quite sty p g < ught ty complimentary adieux to be Er 4o 1 conversation takes place at the luncheon and not afterwards times time-s valuable to wasted in tho early afternoon after-noon hours and if anyone attempted to make an afternoon of it it would be considered a decided infliction |