_Mrs. Ernest L. Lafricain_ _At Home_ _Thursday, December twenty-third_ _from four to six_ _275 Grand Pré Avenue, Montreal_ _To meet Mrs. Jackson Seymour Montgomery_
For a general reception the following form is good:
_Mr. and Mrs. Henry Illington Bray_ _Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bray_ _request the honor of your presence_ _on New Year's Day_ _from four until half after seven o'clock_ _174 Albemarle Street_ _Winnipeg_
The private engraved card for Christmas and New Year greetings, which may be sent to one's entire list of friends, is much in favor. Great distinction and individuality of design and selection of sentiment may be obtained by this means. The following is an appropriate form:
"_The glory breaks And Christmas comes once more_"
_Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Clarke Sutherland cordially greet_
THE test of the depth of one's courtesy is found in one's attitude to strangers and the public at large. If one observes toward them the little courtesies, then one may be safely trusted to keep to the highest ideal of social intercourse in times of emergency and rigid testing.
Always in a public place the real gentleman and lady will be unobtrusive, speaking quietly, and showing in their manner that they each believe himself and herself but a single unit in the world of humanity, and therefore not entitled to monopolize attention. They will go about their business with none of that idle curiosity which forms the street crowd.
In places of public amusement, they will show true courtesy by not coming in late,--that is, by being on time or missing the performance. They will not rustle their programs needlessly. They will so dispose of their coats and wraps that others will not be inconvenienced by them, even if it takes them an extra ten minutes at the close of the evening to obtain them from the cloak room.
They will not talk or whisper to each other during speaking or singing on the stage, or at any time when so doing will make it difficult for others to hear what is going on. They will applaud temperately, and with only that degree of fervor which is for the best interests of the audience and the actors as a whole. That is, at a concert they will not so applaud one artist as to break up the program.