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 This helps many a guest along a strange way and saves the busy hostess the writing of minute directions. Letter paper, showing the house A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationery Letterhead P12A.png

address at upper right or center, is very good



form. It may be used by any member of the household, or a guest, but the hostess chooses her monogramed sheets for her personal letters.

Pictured papers are a foreign importation and are not in favored use in America; still a tiny view of one's country house or a sketch which bears out the name, as "Red Oaks," is permissible and entirely a matter of taste. The design must be small and set at the center of the sheet. It is carried out either as a watercolor sketch, or stamped in single tone of gold, green, dull red or blue.