At Home
Thursday Afternoon, January Eleventh
from Four until Seven o'Clock
Five Hundred Park Avenue_

If the purpose of the reception is to introduce a daughter, her name
would appear immediately below that of the hostess, as "Miss Evans,"
without Christian name or initial. If a second daughter is to be
introduced at the tea, her name in full is added beneath that of the
hostess:

_Mrs. John Evans
Miss Ruth Evans
Miss Evans
At Home
Friday Afternoon, January Twentieth
from Four until Seven o'Clock
Five Hundred Park Avenue_

_For balls and dances_

The word "ball" is used for an assembly or a charity dance, never
otherwise. An invitation to a private house bears "Dancing" or
"Cotillion" in one corner of the card. This ball or formal dance
invitation is engraved on a white card, sometimes with a blank space so
that the guest's name may be written in by the hostess. It would read
thus:

(A)

_Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott
Request the Pleasure of
Mr. and Mrs. Evans's
Company at a Cotillion
to Be Held at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton
on Saturday, December the Third
at Ten o'Clock_
_Please Address Reply to
347 Madison Avenue_

[Illustration: Specimens of formal invitations to a dance]

(B)

_Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott
Request the Pleasure of

_________________________
Company on Saturday Evening
January the Sixth, at Ten o'Clock_
_Dancing 347 Madison Avenue_

An older style of invitation--without the blank for the written name,
but instead the word "your" engraved upon the card--is in perfectly good
form. The invitation would be like this:

(C)

_Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott
Request the Pleasure of Your Company
on Saturday Evening, January the Sixth
at Ten o'Clock_
_Dancing 347 Madison Avenue_

_Accepting_

Mr. and Mrs. John Evans
accept with pleasure
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott's
very kind invitation to a cotillion
to be held at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton
On Saturday, December the third
at ten o'clock

_Regretting_

Mr. and Mrs. John Evans
regret exceedingly that they
are un