If a special function is allotted to any
reception days--as, the entertaining of special
guests--the hour of the reception day may be
written above the day and the date beneath it.

DAUGHTERS. See DAUGHTERS--CARDS.

LEAVING IN PERSON--BIRTH, ANNOUNCEMENT OF.
If wishing to send congratulations,
after receipt of a birth announcement card,
cards should be left in person or sent by a
messenger; cut flowers may be sent with the
card.

Before the wedding cards are issued, an
engaged woman should leave her card
personally upon her friends without entering the
house.

When calling at the beginning of the season
a woman should leave her own card,
those of the men of the family, and two of
her husband's.

After formal invitations, a woman should
leave her own card and those of the men of
the family who were invited, whether they
attended or not.