dding gift. June 18th. 62 West 126th street.

An ultra-fashionable bride, supplying herself with several packages of
these stereotyped acknowledgments, has nothing to do but fill in the
name of the sender and thus avoid infinite labor.

[Illustration: AN UNSEASONABLE CALL.]

[Illustration: A FIVE O'CLOCK TEA.]

HOME ETIQUETTE.

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Good manners are a plant of slow growth, and one that should be
cultivated in the home circle.

"Give a boy address, and it opens palaces to him," says Emerson, and
nowhere is this address, "this habit of encounter," so easily gained
as within the walls of home. There his character is formed for life.

Good breeding, in reality, is but the outcome of "much good sense,
some good nature, and a little self-denial exercised for the sake of
others, with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them."

These words of the scholar, Chesterfield, learned as he was in worldly
lore, and satisfied of the expediency of such observances from a
selfish standpoint, are but another, and more selfish, rendering of
the Golden Rule, whose value as a rule of action in life is apparent.

Courtesy, it must be conceded, is not only pleasant, but profitable in
all places, and at all times, but more especially in the home circle
are its virtues most brilliantly set forth.

Courtesies of Married Life.

"Marriage very rarely mends a man's manners," is a sadly true
statement of the playwright Congreve, and one whose truth touches
women also as concerning the marriage state.

If the slight formalities that are the bulwarks of love as well as
friendship, many forbearances, and more of the small, sweet courtesies
of life, were but permitted to blossom forth like unexpected flowers
beneath the family roof-tree, fewer unhappy marriages would catalogue
their miseries in the divorce court.

The man who takes off his hat as politely to his wife when he parts
from her on the street as he would to his lady acquaintance of
yesterday; who opens the door for her to enter; who would no more
speak harshly to her than to any other lady, is very likely to retain
her first affection and to add to it that sweeter, closer love that
comes of knowledge and companionship.

What Women Admire.

Women admire fine manners and graceful attentions. The man who never
forgets their tastes; who remembers wedding anniversaries and
birthdays; is interested in their pursuits, and ready with an
appreciative wor