ening" and
"prinking" anywhere. They dress as carefully and as beautifully as
possible, but when they turn away from the mirrors in their dressing rooms
they never look in a glass or "take note of their appearance" until they
dress again. And it must be granted that Lucy Gilding, Constance Style,
Celia Lovejoy, Mary Smartlington and the other well-bred members of the
younger set do not put finishing touches on their faces in public--as yet!

=THE COURTESY OF SENDING TICKETS EARLY=

Most people are at times "obliged" to take tickets for various charity
entertainments--balls, theatricals, concerts or pageants--to which, if
they do not care to go themselves, they give away their tickets. Those who
intend giving tickets should remember that a message, "Can you use two
tickets for the Russian ballet to-night?" sent at seven o'clock that same
evening, after the Lovejoys have settled themselves for an evening at home
(Celia having decided not to curl her hair and Donald having that morning
sent his only dinner coat to be re-faced) can not give the same pleasure
that their earlier offer would have given. An opera box sent on the
morning of the opera is worse, since to find four music-loving people to
fill it on such short notice at the height of the season is an undertaking
that few care to attempt.

=A BIG THEATER PARTY=

A big theater party is one of the favorite entertainments given for a
debutante. If fifty or more are to be asked, invitations are sometimes
engraved.

Mrs. Toplofty

requests the pleasure of

[_Name of guest is written on this line._]

company at the theater and a small dance afterward

in honor of her great-niece

Miss Millicent Gilding

on Tuesday the sixth of January

at half past eight o'clock

R.s.v.p.

But--and usually--the "general utility" invitation (see page 118) is
filled in, as follows:

[HW: To meet Miss Millicent Gilding]

Mrs. Toplofty

requests the pleasure of

[HW: Miss Rosalie Gray's]

company at [HW: the Theater and at a dance]

on [HW: Tuesday the sixth of January]

at [HW: 8:15]

R.s.v.p.

Or notes in either wording above are written by hand.

All those who accept have a ticket sent them. Each ticket sent a debutante
is accompanied by a visiting card on which is writt