The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions by Walter Cox Green
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to use "At Home" cards as a woman does,
nor to invite his friends by writing a date and Music at four on his calling-cards in place of an invitation. DRESS. In the afternoon the caller should wear afternoon dress, and in the evening evening dress. ACKNOWLEDGING INVITATIONS. Invitations to an ordinary at home need no acknowledgment. INVITATIONS. Cards for an "At Home" are engraved with the hour for beginning the entertainment--as, Chocolate at 4.30 o'clock. The invitations to a formal "At Home" should be sent in two envelopes, but to an ordinary "At Home" in one envelope. For informal affairs the hour may be written on an ordinary "At Home" card. BACHELORS' DINNERS. They follow the usual custom of formal dinners, and may be as elaborate as desired. Women may be invited. Such dinners are often given for men only. CALLS. Women do not call upon a bachelor after attending a dinner given by him. |
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