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Show WHERE GOOD FORM REMAINS CONSTANT By Edith Mudgett Hinet WE somehow have a feeling that there are going to be several "June Brides." Nearly every bride, in this age where everyone does as everyone else does, makes an attempt at. formality, and if one must be formal one should be correct. Almost immediately after the "secret" is revealed to one's close friends the wedding invitations "are out," and of these here is a bit of very sound etiquet: Great-Grand mot Her Would Approve-"Were Approve-"Were (reat-trandmother to return re-turn today to assist preparations for fh Jun wedding; (and on of th first thine to bo thought about, of course, would b th wedding stationery), she should. In thl one detail of th arrangemants, feel quit at homo. "For good form In th matter of thl most formal occasion 1 much today as It Vas In great-grandmother's day,- and In grandmother's day, and In mother's day. Her 1 on citadel which modernity has not succeeded In tormlng. The text of th message. Its physical arrangement, th color and texture of the fine paper upon which It I engraved, har changed little since colonial days. "W may perhaps hav llttl mannerisms that ar different. Wo may choose to say 'half after the hour, wher grandmother invitations invita-tions may ha read 'half past.' W may prefer to pelf out tb year and th da to In full, wber one an occasional numeral was permls-aable. permls-aable. Th sheets which bear our invitations sad our announcement announce-ment ar smaller than of yore, and l9 Wsl 4 tBTStoj Ubetfl j fold f nr. Shaded letterings of mora mod or n stylo havo vary largely replaced re-placed tho acript and tho Ola En-gllsh En-gllsh of other days. But these are minor details. Daughter might well copy great -grand mother' a woddtng stationery In vary -detail and bo qui to correct. "Sow, aa than, one chooses white, or preferably Ivory, for one1 station sta-tion or y. Now, aa then, on plana to mall the Invitations not later than two weeks before the event and not mora than three woeka in j advance," , o a Marrying mnd Giving In Marriao i tho 6a mo "Bui today, after tho betrothal cards, and Invitations, and announcement, an-nouncement, and at homo cards, and visiting; cards hav been ee-1 ee-1 acted, the bride-to-bo may exercise a bit more Individuality than was permlttM great -grandmother. Her formal "Thank You note, of course, will remain fault dignified and conventional. But beginning with th more Intimate little half note, which hav replaced correspondence correspond-ence cards, all of her purely per 4C&Unufje mt 14 . WHERE GOOD FORM REMAINS . CONSTANT (Continued from paga l.) sontil stationery will furnish an occasion for personal expression. That le one of tha real adventuree of being married ordering a complete com-plete new suite of personal stationery. sta-tionery. Here the bride has her first opportunity to select snd use her new monogram. And. of course, one may go to colors, both as to the peper Itself and th cutout or embossed monogram. "But If there he sn old trunk or a treasure chest where great-grand-raother'a wedding thlnga are stored, and one should discover there nmon? the souvenirs of great- grandmother's marrlsge the wed-" ding ststionery which sheo proudly selected in tha long ago. It would be found that Juat such stationery could he used, with Juat the same pride, the1 same degree of correctness, correct-ness, today. For In the muttnr of marrying and giving In nnrrlage. good form remains unchanged throuhout the years." |