DINNERS
FORMAL INVITATIONS to dinner should be sent between five and ten days before the date. A hostess may use her own discretion as to whether she will write the invitations by hand or use an engraved form. The wording is the same in either case.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Peck
request the pleasure of
...........................................
company at dinner
on.................evening
at........................o’clock
401 Armstrong Street
The engraved form should be printed on a large, heavy piece of bristol board in old English or block type, or in script. When the dinner has a guest of honor, notice of the fact may be given by a line across the bottom of the invitation:
To meet Captain Arthur Shayne
Or a special small card may be inclosed with the invitation, on which is engraved a similar phrase.
When the affair is of extraordinary importance, the form of invitation may dignify the purpose by announcing it at the outset.