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 her father's house, includes his name when issuing a dinner invitation.

The home dinner is by far the highest form of courtesy. The invitation wording may be in the third person, thus:

Less formal is the personal note in the first person: Will you and Mr. Brown give us the pleasure of your company? etc.

In answering, the wording should be: It gives much pleasure, not It will give.

A young girl does not invite men in her own name, but she may write informal notes on her own paper, saying that her mother or chaperon desires her to extend the invitation.

A small dance needs but a written line on the hostess' monogramed paper, but its wording includes her husband's name, thus: