rect; but she might on reaching the hall hand them to the
man-servant silently, or she might send them in by her own servant when
seated in her carriage, saying, "For Mr. and Mrs. Smith." She should not
leave her _own_ card on the hall table, as, having seen the lady of the
house, the reason for doing so no longer exists.[1]

When a lady calling is accompanied by her husband and the mistress of
the house is at home, the husband should leave one of his cards only,
for the absent master of the house; when the master of the house is at
home also, a card in that case should not be left.

When the mistress of a house has a grown-up daughter or daughters, the
lady leaving cards should turn down one corner of her visiting card--the
right-hand corner generally--to include the daughter or daughters in the
call. This custom of turning down a corner of a visiting card signifies
that other ladies of the family besides the hostess are included in the
call. A foreigner turns down the _end_ of a card instead of one corner
only, which has not the same signification. It is to denote that he has
left it in person.

A lady should not leave one of her husband's cards for the daughters of
the house, but she not unfrequently leaves his card for the grown-up
sons of the house.

When a lady intends leaving cards on a friend who is the guest of some
one with whom she is unacquainted, she should only leave cards for her
friend and not for her friend's hostess; but if she is slightly
acquainted with her friend's hostess, she should leave cards upon her
on the occasion of her first visit to her friend, but it would not be
necessary to do so at every subsequent visit, especially if they were of
frequent occurrence.

Young ladies should not have visiting cards of their own; their names
should be printed beneath that of their mother on her card. In the case
of there being no mother living, the daughter's name should be printed
beneath that of her father on the usual lady's visiting card, but never
on the smaller cards used by gentlemen. When young ladies are taken out
into society by relatives or friends, their names should be written in
pencil under the names of the ladies chaperoning them on their visiting
cards.

Maiden ladies of a certain age should have visiting cards of their own,
but until a young lady has attained what is termed a certain age, it
argues no little independence of action to have a card of her own; but
when she no longer