requires chaperonage, she is entitled to a card of
her own, being clearly her own mistress, and able to choose her own
acquaintances.

When a young lady is on a visit unaccompanied by her parents, and wishes
to call on ladies with whom the lady she is staying with is
unacquainted, she should leave her mother's card on which her own name
is also printed, and should draw a pencil through her mother's name to
intimate that she was not with her on that occasion.

Cards should always be returned within a week if possible, or ten days
at latest, after they have been left, but to do so within a week is more
courteous. And care must be taken to return the "call" or "cards"
according to the etiquette observed by the person making the call or
leaving the card; that is to say, that a "call" must _not_ be returned
by a card only, or a "card" by a "call." This is a point ladies should
be very punctilious about.

Should a lady of higher rank return a card by a "call," asking if the
mistress of the house were "at home," her so doing would be in strict
etiquette; and should she return a "call" by a card only, it should be
understood that she wished the acquaintance to be of the slightest; and
should a lady call upon an acquaintance of higher rank than herself, who
had only left a card upon her, her doing so would be a breach of
etiquette.

In large establishments the hall porter enters the names of all callers
in a book expressly kept for the purpose, while some ladies merely
desire their servant to sort the cards left for them.

The name of the lady or gentleman for whom the cards are intended should
never be written on the cards left at a house. The only case in which it
should be done would be when cards are left on a lady or a gentleman
staying at a crowded hotel, when, to save confusion, and to ensure their
receiving them, their names should be written on them thus: "For Mr. and
Mrs. Smith." But this would be quite an exceptional case, otherwise to
do so would be extremely vulgar.

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=Leaving Cards after Entertainments.=--Visiting cards should be left
after the following entertainments: balls, receptions, private
theatricals, amateur concerts, and dinners, by those who have been
invited, whether the invitations have been accepted or not, and should
be left the day after the entertainment if possible, and certainly
within the week according to the rules of card-leaving already
descri