Marion Harland's Complete Etiquette / A Young People's Guide to Every Social Occasion

MARION HARLAND’S COMPLETE ETIQUETTE
MARION HARLAND’S Complete Etiquette
A Young People’s Guide to Every Social Occasion By MARION HARLAND AND VIRGINIA VAN DE WATER REVISED AND ENLARGED
INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1905, 1907, 1914 The Bobbs-Merrill Company PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
MARION HARLAND’S COMPLETE ETIQUETTE

THE sending and receiving of invitations underlies social obligations. It therefore behooves both senders and recipients to learn the proper form in which these evidences of hospitality should be despatched and received.
In the majority of cases an invitation demands an answer. If one is in doubt, it is well to err on the side of acknowledging an invitation, rather than on that of ignoring it altogether.
We will consider first such invitations as demand no acceptance but which call for regrets if one can not accept. Such are cards to “At Home” days, to teas and to large receptions. Unless any one of these bears on its face the letters “R. s. v. p.” ( Répondez, s’il vous plaît —Answer if you please) no acceptance is required. If one can not attend the function, one should send one’s card so that one’s friend will receive it on the day of her affair.

CARDS FOR AN AT HOME