Show 1 The Question of Calls and Cards I The Thc question of or when to call and how bow many cards to leave Is one of or the nice points which frequently arise in our social life liCe Most of oC us dread d making formal calls hut but even in small amaH towns if It you want to keep many friends calling is obligatory Everybody Everybody Every Every- body who goes out at all from tram the I very young youn girl to the grandmother g I J I Inot not forgetting the young man and his taUter rather should have engraved cards for tor they are arc so very Inexpensive that they are well within the means of at a very modest income A properly en i graved card of at good quality is a marlor mark marl of or refinement I Just at present old English type tOpe i seems to be bo the favorite but hut it is the most expensive of or all lettering Script type which Is the cheapest of at all is sUit still In uso use and plain block lettering let- let is very I PoPular n among men wi While the tile women do 10 most of or the calling calling call call- in ing in these busy days it is necessary necessary sary for th the men of or the tho tamil family to have proper calling cards for the tho worn wom en folks to la leave when hen making tho the rounds of or visits A wife's card should h hK lg her hug bus bands band's full name on all it with Mrs prefixed For Instance it should read Mrs Mm John Truman Brown and not Mrs J J. J T. T Brown Initials on acard a a. acard card are arc not good form The The husbands husband's hus hus- bands band's card should read Mr Ir John Truman Brown except in business when the prefix Mr is left off Tho rho car cards s of or th the eldest daughter should read Miss Brown while the younger daughters must have have- their names engraved in full tull reading Miss Mary Elizabeth Brown I If named for tor his liis father the tho sons son's card must read Mr John Truman fruman Brown Drown Jr cars ago when a woman became a a. widow sho she at once dropped tile the use of or her husbands husband's name on her cards hut but this custom is not always adhered adhered ad ad- hered to In case she continues to I use her husbands husband's name and she has bas hasa basa a married son who bears his fathers father's name namo she should have hao the tho word senior added to her card to prevent pre pro vent conflict with the cards of at herson's her sous sou's wife If Ir you rou are married to a professional man your cards do not bear his title You are arc Mrs John Whitson Ford while your our husband is Dr John Whitson Whitson Whit Whit- son F Ford rd You are not Mrs 1 Dr of at you who are in mourning mourn mourn- ing must ha have vo black borders on your our visiting cards the width of at the border being gauged by the depth h of ot your mourning Formal calls should bo ho made between between between be be- tween 3 and G 6 in tim the afternoon while men of at course call in the evening and on on Sunday afternoons Morning calls are to be bo tabooed except between between be be- tween intimate friends or for business purposes I The safest and really the tho sanest solution to the question of ot when to receive and ancl pay Is for tor eyer every women to have a day at home It makes it pleasanter for everyone concerned con can corned not the least of oC whom 1 Is your you self |