ETIQUETTE. A MAN'S CALL.

Northern Advocate, 29 July 1893, Page 3

ETIQUETTE. A MAN'S CALL.

A Society Man Tells How to Make ar>

Agreeable First Impression.

A call upon a woman should always be made in the afternoon. At least in New 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 tho man. Never stay any longer than 15 minutes, and always— as in whist — reserve your best card for the coup d'etat. Rise immediately after you have said or have tried to say something either brilliant or entertaining, or at least amusing. Go then at once and do not, dally for a long adieu, keeping your hostess standing. Your visit will then leave an agreeable impression, and you will no doubt hear— if it is your first call— from tho man who brought you that Miss Jones or Miss Smith had remarked to 1 him a few nights afterward at tho assembly, or the theater, or oven tho vaudeville club: "What a charming man that Mr. Brown is) He was in such form. I wish he would call again, and I intend to send him a card for dmner'at an early day." — Vogue.

Tho etiquette of the Signature. So far as the etiquette of thosignature'ia concerned, there is one unvarying rule for women, married and single. It is never right nor in good form to sign one's name with the addition of Miss or Mrs. You are Mary Emily Jones, not Mrs. Patrick Fitzgerald Jones, to whomsoever you are writing. If it is necessary to notify your correspondent of your married style and estate, you may do so in one of several ways. Please remember that a correspondent should not be left in doubt as to this, much embarrassment being frequently caused by tho omission in letters between strangers of exact information as to whether the writer is married or single. You may readily indicate all you wish to tell. You may place Mrs. P. F. before the Mary Emily aforesaid in parentheses. You may write Mrs. Patrick Fitzgerald out fully and plainly in the left hand corner of your sheet — below your proper signature — or you may simply inclose your engraved visiting card in your letter, this being on the whole the most elegent and also the most convenient method of showing one's relation to society. Harper's Bazar, authority for the foregoing, remarks, however, that the visiting card is out of place in an exclusively business letter — one which has not even remotely a social bearing.

Transfer Paper. To prepare transfer paper take some thin post or tissue paper, rub the surface well with black lead, vermilion, red chalk or any coloring matter. Wipe the preparation well off with a piece of clean raX and fche paper will be ready for use, says Power.