CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I Sending and Receiving Invitations[1]
II Cards and Calls[14]
III Letter-Writing[27]
IV Introductions[38]
V After Six O’clock[43]
VI Functions[52]
VII The Home Wedding[69]
VIII The Church Wedding[78]
IX The Dinner Party[88]
X The Education of a Young Girl[111]
XI The Débutante[120]
XII Men and Women[125]
XIII Coeducation Socially Considered[136]
XIV The Chaperon[145]
XV The Matter of Dress[152]
XVI Making and Receiving Gifts[167]
XVII Bachelor Hospitality[175]
XVIII The Visitor[182]
XIX The Visited[195]
XX Hospitality as a Duty[203]
XXI The House of Mourning[208]
XXII At Table[216]
XXIII In the Home[227]
XXIV In Public[238]
XXV Hotel and Boarding-House Life[249]
XXVI In the Restaurant[259]
XXVII When Traveling[268]
XXVIII In Sport[280]
XXIX Mrs. Newlyrich and Her Social Duties[291]
XXX Delicate Points for Our Girl[306]
XXXI Our Own and Other People’s Children[315]
XXXII Our Neighbors[323]
XXXIII Church and Parish[329]
XXXIV The Woman’s Club[337]
XXXV Charities, Public and Private[347]
XXXVI Courtesy from the Young to the Old[355]
XXXVII Mistress and Maid[363]
XXXVIII The Woman Without a Maid[371]
XXXIX Woman in Business Relations[380]
XL A Financial Study for Our Young Couple[387]
XLI More Talk About Allowances[395]
XLII A Few of the Little Things that Are Big Things [399]
XLIII On Manner[418]
XLIV Self-Help and Observation[426]
Index[433]

MARION HARLAND’S
COMPLETE ETIQUETTE

CHAPTER I
SENDING AND RECEIVING INVITATIONS

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.