to be compared to yours, mon Dieu, but we have recently
completed a pumping station on the outskirts of the city which I
think might almost be denominated an objet d'art.

I am enclosing a visitor's card to the City Club here, which I
wish you would use during your stay. I am sure that you will find
there several bon vivants who will be glad to join you in a game
of vingt et un, and in the large room on the second floor is a
victrola with splendid instrumental and vocal records of "La
Marseillaise."

Au revoir until I see you this afternoon.
Robert C. Crocker.

And above all, in writing to strangers or comparative strangers, seek
to avoid the mention of subjects which might be distasteful to the
recipient of the letter. Many a friendship has been utterly ruined
because one of the parties, in her correspondence or conversation,
carelessly referred to some matter--perhaps some physical
peculiarity--upon which the other was extremely sensitive. The following
letter well illustrates how the use of a little tact may go "a long
way."

A CORRECT LETTER TO A BEARDED LADY

My dear Mrs. Lenox:

I wonder if you would care to go with us to the opera Wednesday
evening? The Cromwells have offered us their box for that night,
which accounts for our selection of that particular evening.
"Beggars cannot be choosers," and while personally we would all
rather go on some other night, yet it is perhaps best that we do
not refuse the Cromwells' generous offer. Then, too, Wednesday is
really the only evening that my husband and I are free to go, for
the children take so much of our time on other nights. I do hope,
therefore, that you can go with us Wednesday to hear "The Barber
of Seville."
Sincerely,
Esther G. (Mrs. Thomas D.) Franklin.

INVITATIONS

The form of the invitation depends a great deal upon the character of
the function to which one wishes to invite the guests to whom one issues
the invitation. Or, to put it more simply, invitations differ according
to the nature of the party to which one invites the guests. In other
words, when issuing invitations to invited guests one must have due
regard for the fact that these invitations vary with the various types
of entertainments for which one issues the invitations. That is to
say, one would obviously not send out the same form of invitation to a
wedding as to