Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . own, and blossoms forth into a young lady. They announce the gaieties, the pleasures, the anniversaries of life :they inquire for us during our illness and sorrow, they return thanksfor our gifts and attentions, and, finally, they commemorate to oufriends the last, sad earthly scene and ring the curtain down. The stress laid by society upon the correct usage of these magicbits of pasteboard will not seem unnecessary when it is rememberedthat the visiti
Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . own, and blossoms forth into a young lady. They announce the gaieties, the pleasures, the anniversaries of life :they inquire for us during our illness and sorrow, they return thanksfor our gifts and attentions, and, finally, they commemorate to oufriends the last, sad earthly scene and ring the curtain down. The stress laid by society upon the correct usage of these magicbits of pasteboard will not seem unnecessary when it is rememberedthat the visiting card, socially defined, means, and is frequently madeto take the place of, ones self. It will be seen, therefore, that one ofthe first requisites for social success is to understand the language, soto speak, of the visiting card. With this end in view the followingsuggestions on the subject have been carefully arranged with dueregard to brevity, accuracy and ease of reference. Style of the Card. The card should be perfectly plain, fine in texture, thin, white, un~^lazed and engraved in simple script without flourishes. Gilt edges. 51. 52 VISITING CARDS. rounded or clipped corners, tinted surfaces or any oddity of lettering,such as German or Old English text, are to be avoided. A photo-graph or any ornamentation whatever upon a card savors of ill-breed-ing or rusticity. Have the script engraved always, never engraved autograph is no longer considered in good taste, neitherare written cards as elegant as those that are engraved. The regulation size, both in this country and England, for a ladysvisiting card is three and one-half inches in length and two and one-half inches in width. This oblong form is most generally used, but there is an almost square shape, two and a half inches by three, alsoin favor, and especially used by unmarried ladies where the shortnessof their name would be too much emphasized in the longer card. Forinstance: Miss Ray would be quite just
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