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Page 12
A public ball begins promptly at the time
mentioned in the announcement.
INVITATIONS. These are issued from ten to
twenty days before the ball, and should be
answered immediately.
For an impromptu dance, they may be
issued within a few days of the affair.
These invitations should be engraved. As
a general rule, it is not now customary to put
on them the letters R. S. V. P.
But when an engraved invitation is posted,
two envelopes are used, the inner one bearing
the person's name only and unsealed, and
the outer bearing both the name and address
and sealed.
If the ball has any peculiar feature, as a
masquerade or costume, the invitation should
have some words to that effect in the lower
left hand corner--as, Costume of the XVIIth
Century, Bal Masque, or Bal Poudre.
INVITATIONS ASKED FOR STRANGERS. If a
hostess receives a request from friends for
invitations for friends of theirs, she can properly
refuse all such requests, and no friend
should feel aggrieved at a refusal for what
she has no right to ask and which the hostess
is under no obligation to give. If the
hostess chooses to grant the request, well and
good.
She would naturally do so when the request
is for a near relative, or the betrothed of the
one making the request.
A man should never ask for an invitation
to a ball for another person, except for his
fiancee or a near relative.
A woman may ask for an invitation for her
fiance, a brother, or a male friend of long
standing, or for a visiting friend. She should
take care that she does not ask it for some
one known to the hostess and whom the latter
does not desire to invite. No offense should be
felt at a refusal save, possibly, in the case of a
brother, sister, or fiance.
INVITATIONS GIVEN BY A NEWCOMER. When a
newcomer in a neighborhood desires to give
a ball but has no visiting list, it is allowable
for her to borrow the visiting list of
some friend. The friend, however, arranges
that in each envelope is placed a calling-card
of her own, so that the invited ones may know
that she is acting as sponsor for the newcomer.
INVITATIONS ANSWERED. Every invitation
should be answered as soon as possible, and
in the third person if the invitation was in the
third person. The answer should be sent to
the party requesting the pleasure, even if
many names are on the invitation.
When a subscriber to a subscription ball
invites a friend who is a non-subscriber, she
encloses her card in the envelope, and the invited
friend sends the answer to the subscriber
sending the invitation.
INTRODUCTIONS. When a man is introduced to a
woman at a ball, he should ask her for a
dance.
MEN AT. Courtesy toward his hostess and consideration
for his friends demands that a
man who can dance should do so.
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