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Twentieth Century Culture and Deportment / Or the Lady and Gentleman at Home and Abroad; Containing Rules of Etiquette for All Occasions, Including Calls; Invitations; Parties; Weddings; Receptions; Dinners and Teas; Etiquette of the Street; Public Places, Etc., Etc. Forming a Complete Guide to Self-Culture; the Art of Dressing Well; Conversation; Courtship; Etiquette for Children; Letter-Writing; Artistic Home and Interior Decorations, Etc. cover

Twentieth Century Culture and Deportment / Or the Lady and Gentleman at Home and Abroad; Containing Rules of Etiquette for All Occasions, Including Calls; Invitations; Parties; Weddings; Receptions; Dinners and Teas; Etiquette of the Street; Public Places, Etc., Etc. Forming a Complete Guide to Self-Culture; the Art of Dressing Well; Conversation; Courtship; Etiquette for Children; Letter-Writing; Artistic Home and Interior Decorations, Etc.

Chapter 577: Appendix: Card Text.
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This volume provides comprehensive, practical rules of social etiquette and self-presentation for polite society. It addresses introductions, salutations, the art of conversation, visiting cards and customs, invitations, courtship and marriage, weddings, and funeral observances. Practical guidance covers hosting and attending parties, table manners, dances and entertainments, public behavior, travel and modes of transport including bicycling, club conduct, and etiquette for children. Chapters on dress, color and personal appearance, letter-writing with sample forms, and artistic home decoration complete the household reference.

Appendix: Card Text.

Mr and Mrs Grant White
Request the pleasure of your company at dinner,
On —— evening, ——,
At eight o’clock.

81 Graceland Court.

R. S. V. P.


Mr and Mrs Philip Vance
Request the pleasure of
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Sullivan’s
Company at dinner,
On Tuesday, March 6th, at 8 o’clock.

84 Ashland Boulevard.

The favor of an answer is requested.


Mr. and Mrs. Jackson
Request the pleasure of
Mr. and Mrs. Brown’s
Company at dinner,
To meet Robert Browning,
Thursday, October 8th, at seven o’clock.
692 Arch Street.

R. S. V. P.


Mrs Stuyvesant Wentworth
Requests the pleasure of the company of
Mr and Mrs Mark Cowden,
On Wednesday evening, July 4th,
At nine o’clock

Informal.


Mrs. John Burrows,
At Home,
Thursday evening, October first,
At nine o’clock.
1080 LeFrance Avenue

Quadrilles at ten.


Mr. and Mrs. George Douglas
Request the pleasure of your company,
Thursday evening, December twelfth,
At nine o’clock

Delmonico’s.


Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Saltus,
Sanger Halle,
Wednesday evening, January twentieth

German at nine. R. S. V. P.


Mrs. Henry Alexander
Requests the favor of your company on
Tuesday evening, October tenth,
From eight to eleven o’clock,
To meet the
Rev. Prof. Dr. Kemp,
Of the Princeton Theological Seminary

684 West 49th Street. R. S. V. P.


Mrs. L. J. LeFevre
Requests the pleasure of your company,
Saturday evening, November twelfth,
At eight o’clock.

Masquerade.

R. S. V. P. 55 East Thirtieth Street.


Mrs. P. V. VanVechton,
At Home,
Tuesday, April second.

Music at half-past three.


Mr. and Mrs. John Clay and Party.
Mrs. Waite Talcott,
At Home,
Tuesday, August fifth, at four o’clock.
“The Oaks.”

Garden Party. R. S. V. P.

Carriages will meet the 3.40 train from Union Depot.


Mrs George Horton.
Breakfast, Wednesday, at ten o’clock.
24 Euclid Avenue.


Mrs. Arthur Holt
Requests the pleasure of introducing her daughter,
Edith May,
To
Mr and Mrs Ross Clark,
On Thursday evening, December fifth,
At nine o’clock.

28 St. Caroline’s Court. R. S. V. P.


Mrs. Jerome Hastings
Requests the pleasure of your company,
On Thursday, November twelfth,
From five until ten o’clock.

711 DuPage Street. R. S. V. P.


Mr. and Mrs. Richard Earle
Request the pleasure of your company
At the marriage of their daughter,
Guendolen,
To
Mr. Egbert Ray Cranston
On Tuesday, June Eighteenth, 1895,
At half-past twelve o’clock,
Christ Church,
Binghamton.


1885. 1890.

Wooden Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Grant,
At Home,
Thursday evening, December fifth, 1895,
At half-past eight o’clock.

263 East Thirteenth Street.


To meet their Royal Highnesses,
The Infantes Eulalia
And
Antoine of Spain.
The Spanish Consul
And
Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor
At Home,
Monday, June twelfth, at nine o’clock.

21 Pearson Street.


Mrs. Chandos Miller,
At Home,
Thursday, June fifth, at eight o’clock.
25 Westmoreland Street.

Music.


Mr and Mrs Charles Leigh
Request the pleasure of
Mrs Morton’s
Company on Thursday, the fifth of August,
At three o’clock.

Garden Party. Maple Grove.


Mrs Robert Barton Keene
Requests the pleasure of
Mrs Frederick Daniel’s company at
Luncheon,
Friday, May sixth, at half-past one o’clock.
6 Portland Place.