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Title: Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Cooke, Maud C
Subjects: Etiquette
Publisher: Philadelphia : National Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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have paid you thesame courtesy. If a call has been made upon you, return it by a call,as to return a personal visit by the sending of a bit of pasteboardwould partake of the nature of a slight. If cards only have been sentyou by a servant, return cards in the same manner by messenger orservant; if they were sent by mail, return by mail. If the cards ofany of the gentlemen of a houseare left, always leave the cards of anygentleman of your family in return. Of course first calls should be made and returned in person, thecard-leaving formalities coming later on. This rule is departed fromonly by a few ladies whom age, health, social or literary duties wiliexcuse from making personal calls. These frequently permit them-selves to send out cards in place of a first call, either accompanyingthem with, or immediately following them by an invitation to someentertaiment. This attention should receive the same notice as a firstcall; cards should be sent in return, together with an answer to the
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A SOCIAL CHAT.

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