ENTERTAINMENTS

While a man of taste will applaud heartily on occasion, he will refrain from extravagant and continuous clapping.

WEDDINGS

A wedding invitation, unless it includes a wedding breakfast, limited in number, requires no reply. Cards sent afterward are all that is necessary.

WEDDINGS

The private wedding and after announcement is often the most suitable--in fact, the only appropriate method to adopt when a bride is comparatively alone in the world, or has no near relatives to take charge of wedding formalities.

WEDDINGS

It is not etiquette for the groom to bear any of the expense, except the fee to the clergy man; nor to furnish anything for his own wedding, except the ring and the bouquet for the bride, presents for the brides-maids and best man, and some little token for the ushers.

WEDDINGS

CARDS OF INVITATION TO A WEDDING are issued in the name of the bride's parents, or, if she is an orphan, by her guardian, or some relative or friend who gives her the wedding. All expenses are paid by the bride's family.

TABLE SETTING

In arranging the modern dinner-table, when the service is to be _à la Russe_, floral decorations are almost indispensable.

CLEVER CONVERSATION

Though you are witty, do not talk nonsense over-much. It is perilously easy to weary people with the "smart" style of talk.