A MAN'S CALL
▲ Society Man Tells How to Make •* Agreeable First Impression* * - ' A call upon a woman should always tit" made in the afternoon. At least In N«# York we call at no other time, choosing, if possible, the hour when the tea is brought In, and it is neither daylight nor dusk. Bend your card slightly at one end, so that it laps over about a quarter of an inch, when you hand it to the man. Never stff any longer than 15 minutes, and always as in whist— reserve your best card for the ooup d'etat. Rise immediately after you have said or have tried to say something either brilliant or entertaining, or at Itut amusing. Go then at once and do not ' dally for a long adieu, keeping your heft-, ess standing; Your visit will then leftveio ~ agreeable impression, and you will 00 . doubt hear— if it/ is your fl*steall— l&& the man who brought you that Miss Jon** or Miss Smith had remarked to him a tow nights afterward at the assembly, or tin "theater, or even the vaudeville club: "What a charming man that Mr. Brown Ist He was in such form. I wish he would c*fl again, and I intend to send him a card for . dinner at an early day. "—Vogue.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3085, 26 February 1894, Page 4
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218A MAN'S CALL Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3085, 26 February 1894, Page 4
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