convenient title as "Dowager," the
widowed Mrs. Francis Brown will be obliged to drop her husband's name
in favor of her son's wife and thenceforth appear before the world as
Mrs. Mary E. Brown. Where there are no children, or immediate
relatives, change of title on the part of the widow is a mere matter
of sentiment.

The black border upon a widow's cards should never be over a quarter
of an inch in depth: more than this savors of ostentation rather than
affliction.

Young ladies, especially if it is their first season in society, will
find it the best form to have their names engraved upon the visiting
card of their mother. Thus, if it is the eldest daughter:

MRS. WILFRID FERGUSON.

MISS FERGUSON.

If a younger daughter:

MRS. WILFRID FURGUSON.

MISS ETHEL FURGUSON.

And if it should chance that two daughters "come out" in consecutive
seasons both of their names are frequently engraved upon their
mother's card, thus:

MRS. WILFRID FURGUSON.

MISS FURGUSON.

MISS ETHEL FURGUSON.

Though it often happens that, for convenience sake, by the time the
second rosebud is "out," the first has established a cardcase of her
own. Yet as neither custom nor etiquette sanctions young girls in
having cards of their own, a mother often continues to have the name
of her young daughters engraved upon her own card.

Young ladies should always prefix "Miss" to their names, as:

MISS ALICE CREIGHTON WRIGHT,

there being a certain forwardness about announcing one's self as:

ALICE CREIGHTON WRIGHT.

Especially is this so among strangers, the prefix "Miss" carrying with
it a certain quiet reserve and dignity.

The eldest daughter of a family announces herself upon her cards as
"Miss Wright," unless there are several of the same name in town,
while the others are respectively "Miss Alice Creighton Wright" and
"Miss Ethel May Wright." Occasionally a card is used for sisters
engraved as follows:

MISSES WRIGHT.

All pet names are to be avoided upon visiting cards and "Nettie
Cranston" very properly becomes "Miss Annette Cranston" upon her
cards.

Neither are initials good form for young ladies, though after an
unmarried lady has reached a certain, or rather an "uncertain," age,
she may, if she choose, be permitted to place upon her visiting cards:

MISS A.C. WRIGHT.

If the young lady be motherless she often has her name engraved
beneath that of her father