Deportmental ditties : and other verses . Though your Conversaziones may be crammed withfriends and cronies,Who wont criticise your grammar and your spelling,And by missives wrongly worded, strangers sometimesmay be herdedNeath the roof tree of your hospitable dwelling,By a lapse of taste or language folks are often much offended,—When your party is a failure and your soiree unattended. It is readily admitted that your phrases must be fitted To the status of the guests you are inviting,For what one accepts as normal to another seems informal, What a third enjoys a fourth regards as slighting;A
Deportmental ditties : and other verses . Though your Conversaziones may be crammed withfriends and cronies,Who wont criticise your grammar and your spelling,And by missives wrongly worded, strangers sometimesmay be herdedNeath the roof tree of your hospitable dwelling,By a lapse of taste or language folks are often much offended,—When your party is a failure and your soiree unattended. It is readily admitted that your phrases must be fitted To the status of the guests you are inviting,For what one accepts as normal to another seems informal, What a third enjoys a fourth regards as slighting;And what strikes the Upper Classes as a piece of maladroitnessMay be looked on by 61 ttoXXol as (forgive me) hoigh poloitness ! 53 D. 54 Invitations Yuii may favour a relation with a curt communicationWhich a Btranger would consider Bheer effronti Or address a peer demurely in a manner which would arelySound affected fco a cousin from the country; So remember, ere commencing to express yourself on paper, That a style which suits a duchess may seem stilted to adraper. Let your writing-ink be blacker and more luminous than lacqm And your paper quite immaculately snowy;Jjjg>. ^^ If you purpose to invest it with a monogram or crest, it Should be something that is neat but never showy ;And if scented, let the faintest form of perfume beW. IN selected, Or your readers will insist on being promptly disinfected.
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