Mourning cards should be sent to indicate temporary retirement from society.  Later cards should be sent to indicate return to society.

  Afternoon tea.  If a woman is unable to be
       present at an afternoon tea she should send
       her card the same afternoon.

  Wedding reception.  When invitations have
       been received to the church but not to the
       wedding reception, cards should be sent to
       the bride’s parents and to the bridal couple.

  Women—­style, titles.  Women having titles
       should use them before the name—­as,
       Reverend or Rev. Mrs. Smith.  Physicians use Dr.
       before or M.D. after the name.  Office hours
       and other professional matters are omitted on
       cards for social use.  Husband’s titles should
       never be used.  The home address is put in
       the lower right-hand and the club address in
       the lower left-hand corner.

       The card of the eldest daughter in society
       is simply Miss Wilson.

Cards of admission to church weddings.  These
       cards are used at all public weddings held in
       churches, and when they are used no one
       should be admitted to the church without
       one.  They are sent with the wedding invitations.

CARRIAGES.

  Balls.  See balls-carriages.

  Dances.  See dances-carriages.

  Funerals.  See funerals-carriages.

  Men.  In a general way a man should provide a
       carriage when escorting a woman in evening
       dress to any function.  If she does not wear
       evening dress, and they are going to an informal
       affair, it would be proper to take a
       street-car.

  Suppers.  See supper and theatre parties—­men—­carriages.

  Theatres.  See theatres and opera parties given by men—­carriages.

  Women.  A woman accepting, with her mother’s
       or chaperone’s consent, a man’s invitation to
       the theatre may, with propriety, request him
       not to provide a carriage unless full dress on
       her part is requested.

Catholic priest—­how addressed. An official letter
       begins:  Reverend and Dear Sir, and ends:  I
       have the honor to remain your humble servant. 
         A social letter begins:  Dear Father Wilson,
       and ends:  I beg to remain faithfully yours,
         The address on the envelope is:  The Reverend
       John J. Wilson.  But if he holds the
       degree of D.D. (Doctor of Divinity), the
       address is:  Reverend John J. Wilson, D.D.,
       or Reverend Dr. John J. Wilson.