Page:Book of Etiquette, Volume 1, by Lilian Eichler.djvu/234

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BOOK OF ETIQUETTE

abling subscribers and patronesses to extend hospitalities to their friends, but also to bar the admittance of those people who were not invited. Here is the form usually used for the "voucher":

Third Reunion
Gentlemen's Voucher

Admit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
on Friday evening, April the tenth
Compliments of . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

To do away with the necessity of the "voucher" a card like the following is used:

Third Reunion
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The pleasure of your company is requested
on Tuesday, the tenth of June
at eight o'clock
Commumity Club

18 Forest Avenue

Please present this card at the door.

If the invitations are issued and distributed by a committee or board of directors, instead of by private subscribers, the words:

The Committee of the Third Reunion
Hilldale Club
234 Kingston Avenue

appear beneath the engraving, in the left-hand corner. The proper form is to use a letter sheet, engraving the