corner, if such is the wish of "the bride and groom."

DINNER CARDS OF INVITATION may have this form:

MR. AND MRS. GEORGE LATHROP
request the pleasure
Of ....................................
company at dinner on Thursday,
................ at seven o'clock.
95 Willow Street.

The above form may be engraved for perennial use by a host or hostess
who frequently give dinners, and always on the same day of the week.
Blanks are left to be filled in with the name of the invited guest and
the exact date. Or for a single occasion the form may be without any
blank spaces, and the phrasing read, "Request the pleasure of your
company."

A dinner given in honor of some distinguished guest requires an
invitation card specially engraved. This form is most deferential:

To meet
GENERAL LA FAYETTE,
MR. AND MRS. GEORGE LATHROP
request the honor
of ........................ company
at dinner
on Wednesday, May tenth,
at eight o'clock.
95 Willow Street.

If the honored guest is esteemed on the score of personal friendship
rather than public distinction his name will be given last, instead of
first, on the card, the phrasing of the invitation remaining the same.

Invitations to dinner should be answered at once, and no one should
accept if there is the least doubt about being able to be present.
Only the most serious detentions suddenly arising will excuse a failure
to keep a dinner engagement once made. If such contingency does occur
at the eleventh hour an explanation and apology should be sent to the
host or hostess without delay in order to give opportunity for securing
"the fourteenth man."

FOR A FORMAL LUNCHEON OR BREAKFAST the invitation cards are similar in
form to dinner cards. But since the manner of serving, the numbers
invited, etc., are not so definitely fixed it is proper to add R.S.V.P.
on cards that especially call for a reply in the judgment of the
hostess. Otherwise many people with vague ideas of the "informality"
of these occasions might omit to send replies.

THE CONDUCT OF A CHURCH WEDDING

The sexton should be duly informed what preparations to make at the
church; the awning at the entrance, the ribbon barrier across the
aisle, the floral decorations, etc., by whomever arranged and executed
are under the supervision of this functionary, who is respon