Show The Etiquette of Cards RULES GOVERNING THE USE OF VISITING CARDS When Where there For Whom to Leave Them ThemA ThemA U A A SK me anything you like said L 3 Mrs Wright cordially cordia II to a friend who tho had been puzzled over some sonic points Joints of etiquette You are arc very vcr good to help me mc said Mrs Howe After living out of town for some time as I have done one gets out of touch with many things In town or out of town there arc are al always always ways certain accounts to be he kept with society answered Mrs Wright In smaller towns and nd country neighbor neighborhoods neighborhoods neighborhoods hoods the same general duties should bedone be bedone bedone done I dont mean to call them duties only on I They should be h pleasures But with my m children to think of I have neglected social duties or pleas pleasures pleasures ures pleaded Mrs Howe That is is s a natural and a frequent ex cx excuse excuse cuse said her friend but it is not al altogether altogether together fair air to your jour husband or your jour yourself yourself self to 10 neglect society and not fair to seem indifferent to your our friends Then you jou oli must remember that you jou have two girls They The should give you jou a new in interest interest in interest terest in social life ife But they the arc are children exclaimed the young joung mother in surprise Keep In Touch for tor tho Children They The will not always be children They Ther will be grown up before you jou ou real realize realize realize ize it It While they the arc are growing up tip you OU must not drift away from social inter interests interess ests ess or customs You must stay sta bright and young oung for or the sake of your our husband children friends and society in in general genera You are arc right I am going to try to follow your our example said Mrs Howe gayly gayl Then she added If my m girls have as lS good manners when they the grow up as your Rosamond d I shall be happy happ 1 I did not intend to draw down so much flattery on Oil my head or on Rosa monds said Mrs Wright right laughing Then she continued confidingly Rosa monds coming out this winter has been beena a joy instead of a task because I have tried always to Keep in ill iii touch with so society society society and md its ways A girls coming coniing out brings brins brin s up all sorts of matters for dis discussion disCUSSIon discussion and one onu needs to be prepared with information 1 I sec see that thit you are arc having a l very busy bus winter vinter said Mrs Irs Howe Flosse Yes a busy and delightful winter and now that you tell me you jou ou want my m suggestions I shall have another pleas pleasure ure Is there not something you OU want to discuss i Yes it seems to that hat I me mc one of the most important things is the he etiquette I of cards It is is strange that a bit of pasteboard means so jo much it Tho The Importance of Cards Card Not when you jou think that cards erds help to unite society We Ve could never pay payoff y off our social debts or even cen remind people of our existence without these useful little bits of pasteboard Cards are arc very often too the expressions of kindliness sympathy or congratulation After all nil there is is a commonsense rea rca reason reason about the t e of son use visiting cards card as asin in in n most social matters malters Leaving cards is is a step toward renewing friendships ps forming or enlarging ones circle of friends fri If one on does docs d not follow the pre prescribed preSCribed prescribed scribed rules it is a sure step in the wrong direction |