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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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include her name also : Mrs. Jerome Hastings, Miss Hast-ings, At Home, Thursday, November twelfth, from five until tenoclock. 711 DuPage Street. When the reception is given by a gentleman, and its object is toenable his friends to meet some distinguished guest, the followingform is used: Mr. Howard Post requests the pleasure of the com-pany of Mr. Alonzo Metcalf to meet General E. L. Bates.Union League Club. 100 Cedar Street. R. S. V. P. Though some prefer placing the name of the honored guest first,according to the form given under dinner invitations. The answershould be: Mr. Alonzo Metcalf accepts with pleasure Mr. Howard Posts kind invi-tation to meet General E. L. Bates, INVITATIONS, FORMAL AND INFORMAL. 101 Weddings. Wedding invitations are issued two weeks in advance, sometimesearlier to friends at a distance, in order that they may lay their plansaccordingly. They are engraved in fine script on small sheets ofcream note, and the form most used for church weddings is asfollows :
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Still another form would give the daughters name as Miss Guen-dolen Earle. There may or may not be a monogram on the sheet of paper, but,if used there, one to correspond must be placed on the inner envelopealso. The envelope, however, may be stamped with a monogram and 102 INVITATIONS, PORMAL AND INFORMAL. the paper left plain, this latter style being much in favor. Where the wedding is in church, it is usually followed by an after-reception, cardsfor which are engraved in some similar form to the following : Recep-tion from one until three oclock, 107 Washington Street. Or: AtHome after the ceremony. 107 Washington Street. A still more ceremonious invitation to the reception may be issuedin the parents name, and in the usual form of similar invitations, as ;Mr. and Mrs. Richard Earle request the pleasure of your com-pany at the wedding reception of their daughter, Guendolen, andMr. Egbert Ray Cranston, Tuesday evening, June eighteenth, 1895,from nine to eleven oclock. 107 Washington

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