It is customary, although not quite as generally done as formerly, to leave or mail visiting cards to all one's mere acquaintances (friends being notified by visit or letter), when about to either change one's habitual residence or undertake a journey of some duration. Ordinary visiting cards are used with the letters P. P. C. written on the left-hand corner. These are the initials of the French phrase, "Pour prendre congé," meaning "To take leave." The custom is commendable. A separate card ought to be sent for each grown-up member of the family.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS AND FUNERALS
Sometimes, to announce to acquaintances the arrival of a little stranger, a tiny card is engraved with the baby's name and the date of his birth, thus:
Harold Jay Stewart,
May first. 25 Astor Place.
Or a notification by the parents may be sent, engraved on note paper.
The proper thing, in either case, is to return cards with the word "congratulations" written on the left-hand corner.
Invitations to funerals are engraved on heavily black-bordered note paper, and may be worded as follows, although there are no strict rules in the matter:
You are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral of
Mr. Edward Deene Harrison,
to take place from his late residence,
2013 Michigan boulevard,
Monday, June eighteenth,
at three o'clock.