Show GOOD TASTE S TODAY y I 1 by I 1 E EMILY POST worlds foremost Fore authority Aut honry on etiquette eh quette emily post theres good reason for visiting cards DEAR EAR mrs post visiting card formalities are something so I 1 I 1 never will understand ive moved into a strange community and neighbors neighbor s and friends of friends are calling and leaving their cards why do they leave cards when im in and receive them I 1 can ander understand why they would leave cards in my absence but not otherwise answer it is really essential that they leave cards so that you will know their full names and the spelling and possibly their house addresses after all you would have to have better than average hearing not to say anything of memory to remember the names announced to boti you and later when you look for mrs jimson in the telephone book you may have no way of knowing whether she is mrs alexander or mrs john or mrs george excepting on this first occasion visitors are not apt to send in their cards unless they find you out 0 0 0 wedding announcement need not name town T EAR mrs post on wedding an may I 1 omit the name of the town in which we were married or if there must be some town mentioned may I 1 use the name of my home town own instead we were married out of the state and I 1 dont care especially to use the name of the town if it is possible to omit it answer the best way to overcome this is to leave a space between the line giving the year of the marriage and the name of the town in other words actually the announcement ends wit with h the oate date adding the name of the town merely gives the people to whom the announcements noun cements are sent your parents address proper invitation form T EAR mrs post will you sug agest gest a form for an important dinner to be given by the children of a couple who are to be honored on their fiftieth wedding anniversary everything I 1 write out seem correct answer the pleasure ot of name written in company is requested by the sons and daughters of mr and mrs fitly fifty years on the occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary on tuesday the tenth of february at eight hotel uptown ci city ty state kindly reply 0 a how to accept r D EAR mrs post now how in the world can so much be written by hand when answering a third person invitation sent out by a committee of a certain organization both names appearing on the form as well as the names of two guests of lionor honor answer you need write no more than the following miss mary smith accepts with pleasure the kind invitation of the committee of whatever organization for wednesday evening at eight at the hotel steven the wedding breakfast T D EAR mrs post will you sug gest a good menu for a ten welock wedding breakfast there will be only about two dozen guests answer at that hour I 1 would make it really a breakfast something such as melon and chicken mince with hashed cream potatoes or scrambled eggs and sausage buttered hot breads breakfast coffee meaning coffee in big cups with sugar and cream and I 1 think that is enough wedding cake and either champagne or fruit cup or whatever you are going to use to drink the brides health are of course part of every wedding collation 0 no tails on sunday D DEAR EAR mrs post will you kindly settle a question in dressing for us I 1 have always understood that tails tor for men are absolutely correct at any time after dark no matter what the day we have just been told that this does not include sunday answer the reason that tails are never seen on sunday evening is that balls and dinners of ceremony which alone require them are never given on sunday 0 a 0 how you lou do it WHEN W HEN someone says now how do you do is it correct to say 1 I am fine thank you or is how do you do to be taken only as a greeting answer how do you do is a punctilious greeting to which the customary response is also now how do you yon do service |