sions, but is under no obligation to do so.

It has long been the custom for the President to give a series of
State Dinners during the session of Congress, to which the various
members of that body, the higher Government officials and the
Diplomatic Corps are successively invited. In order to show attention
to all, and offend none, it is necessary to give quite a number of
these dinners during the session.

[The proper titles to be used in addressing the President, Members of
the Cabinet, Members of Congress, Judges of the Supreme Court and
other Government officials, are found in the Department on
"Letter-Writing."]

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DELSARTEAN DISCIPLINE

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"The end and aim of all our work should be the harmonious growth of
our whole being," says Froeebel. "Know thyself," quoth Epictetus, the
Stoic, and, knowing thyself, grow strong of mind, self-centered and
self-possessed. "Know thyself," reiterates the modern disciple of
Delsarte, since only by knowledge of self can be developed the real
personality of the individual.

Grace and self-possession are the aim of Delsarte; it therefore fairly
falls within the province of a work on etiquette to look somewhat into
the subject. If one would control others he must first control
himself, possess himself. Delsarte looked upon the nature of man as a
trinity, and believed that the mental, moral and physical should be
educated at the same time. Modern education tends to develop man in
special directions to the neglect of others. Either the overstrained
mental faculties revenge themselves by giving us the nervous,
broken-down, mental type so common; or else we have the crude physical
type wherein ordinary labor has exercised but a few muscles and
joints.

The Three Languages.

Again, says Delsarte, "Man has for the expression of his triune nature
three languages, the word, the tone, the gesture. Tones express bodily
conditions, pleasure or pain. Words are symbols to interpret thought.
Gestures relate to other beings and express our emotions. Of these
three, the first receives undue cultivation, since we study all the
words that have been said or written, while singers and actors alone
cultivate tone or gesture."

Thus it comes that "the soul struggles to speak through an imperfect
instrument; sometimes it ceases to struggle and finally has nothing to
say."

In labor the man _moves_, special muscles do special work, but when a
man is _move