SOCIAL STATIONERY
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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
address at upper right or center, is very good
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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 PapersPictured 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.
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