MODERN MAYFAIR

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 62, 15 March 1927, Page 13

MODERN MAYFAIR

It is becoming increasingly difficult for London hostesses to secure the presence of young people, and especially of young men, for private dances, owing to the increasing fondness of young people for public dances, where they can spend the whole evening with one partner and have every comfort and luxury that they can afford to pay for —or get someone else to pay for (vvTites a London correspondent of the "Weekly Scotsman"). Owing to this cause and to the neglect of what used to be a fundamental obligation of good manners (to answer all invitations promptly) some hostesses send out invitation cards with a tear-off portion printed both for accepting and refusal. Apparently the recipient merely scores through one of the lines and returns the card, if he thinks the lady'i, invitation is worth all .this trouble and the cost of a postage stamp. If not, he does not reply, but turns up on the evening in question if he has found no more attractive way of spending it. "Toujours la impolitesse" is the motto of Young Mayfair.