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Show About Oard Leaving Philadelphia Leduor. It might as well be recognized that we do some things in our own way In this country, aud that we shiill continue' to do them, because be-cause that way is best. There Is no use in raising a tempest in tho afternoon leaflet ovi r uni 's visiting i mils, mid :,. he suddenly sud-denly ashamed of leaving cards at a rcccp-tion rcccp-tion because somebody has discovered that "they" do not leave cards nt an Knglish tea. It is nut a new discovery, and the observations observa-tions might have been extended even farther. far-ther. In England, where every visitor is announced, an-nounced, one docs not leave a card in the ball, or even in making an iufonual call at ft o'clock. If you get in, your hostess is supposed to remember yoti and to recall afterwards that you have been there, t'ards are, therefore, left only where the hostess is out, but a lady will put down her husband ,1 card on a side table or in the ball if he does not accompany her. It is tiiitc otherwise at receptions here, where no one's name Is called and w here there nro hundreds of people. peo-ple. Th". hostess must rely on the cards her guests leave or send to remember w ho has responded to her invitations. Bo the card leaving at teas will probably bo observed, as it is the most convenient way tu memorize the friends who have simply been able to : bow to the hostess in iiasslnir. as one of a very loin,' line of eallcra. Let n's always lie Knijlish, or Kronen, or German, when the customs of those lauits lire worth transplanting transplant-ing into absolutely vacant places in our own observances, but let us lie ourselves wheu there is irood reason in the -'ways'1 wc have settled into, to save time anil trouble, while fullllllng the forniitlilies of , alls. |