The formal luncheon hour is from one to two o’clock. Afternoon teas are usually at five. One’s visiting card can be used only for an invitation for an afternoon “at home;” invitations to dinner or luncheon must be written out. In sending out cards for a tea one should simply write the date and the hour in the lower left-hand corner; in sending a note, whether by messenger or post, the number of the house and the name of the street should be written out in full.

The following is a good form of invitation to an “at home” given by several women:

Mrs. James Smith
Mrs. Charles White
Mrs. Frederick Brown
at home
Saturday, April the sixteenth
at four o’clock
112 Madison Street

The usual form of an invitation to a luncheon is as follows:

Mrs. James Brown
requests the pleasure of your company
at luncheon
on Wednesday, April the sixth,
at one o’clock.

Below this and to the right would be the address, and the date on which the invitation is written.

The invitation for a musical may be worded as follows:

Mrs. James Smith requests the pleasure of
Miss Brown’s company on Friday afternoon,
March seventeenth, at two o’clock.

Music.
R.S.V.P. 		24 Queen Avenue.

ANNOUNCEMENT CARDS.

The simplest way to announce an engagement is for each of the engaged couple to write short notes of announcement on the same day to each one’s relatives and near friends. All these notes are sent so that they will be received at the same time. They are written in the first person on dainty note paper, and the best form is the simplest. The character of the note must depend on the intimacy between the writer and the recipient.