e name of the prospective groom.

| Mrs. Russell D. Jones of 45 Ninth |
|street announces the engagement of her |
|daughter, Natalie, to John MacBaine |
|Smith. |

The item may also begin "Mr. and Mrs. X. X. So-and-So announce, etc.,"
or simply "Announcement is made of the engagement of Miss Stella Blank,
daughter of, etc."

=4. Receptions and Other Entertainments.=--If a paper is to keep up in
society news, it must report many social entertainments. However, such
events are treated by large dailies as simply, briefly, and impersonally
as possible. Such a story, like the report of a wedding, consists merely
of certain usual facts. The name of the host or hostess, the place, the
time, and the special entertainments are of course always included.
Sometimes the occasion for the event, the guests of honor, and a
description of the decorations are added,--also the names of those who
assisted the hostess.

| Mrs. James Harris Jones gave a |
|reception yesterday at her home, 136 |
|Fifth street, for her daughter, Miss |
|Dorothy Jones. In the receiving line were |
|Miss Marjorie Smith, Miss, etc. * * The |
|reception was followed by an informal |
|dance. |

If the event is held especially for debutantes, the fact is noted at the
very start. "A number of debutantes assisted in receiving at a tea given
by, etc."; "The debutantes of the winter were out in force, etc."

Such a story is usually followed by a list of guests, a list of
out-of-town guests, a list of subscribers, or something of the sort.
Ordinarily the list is not tabulated but is run in solid, thus:

| The guests were: Miss Kathleen Smith, |
|Miss Georgia Brown, etc. |

Very often the names are grouped together, thus:

| The guests were: The Misses Kathleen |
|Smith, Georgia Brown; Mesdames Robert R. |
|Green, John R. Jones; and the Messrs. |
|George Hamilton, Francis Bragg, etc. |

The number of variations in such stories is limited only by the
ingenuity of the people who are giving such entertainments. But in each
case the reporter learns to give the same facts in much the same order.
And he gives th