If you are thrown amongst fashionable people, you must not pay a visit to a lady before three o’clock p. M., nor after five, as, if you call before that time, you will interrupt those avocations which more or less occupy every lady in the early part of the day; if later than five o’clock, you will prevent her driving out.

This does not at all apply to America, where the hours are so much earlier. It is not intended to attempt changing the customs of a country in some respects rationally differing from those of Europe, but only to notice those habits that can and ought to be altered for the better.

On returning visits, a card left at the house is generally considered all that is necessary; but, if you are admitted, do not make a morning visit too long, lest you interfere with the engagements of the mistress of the house.

Never leave your hat in the hall when you pay a morning visit; it makes you look too much at home; take it with you into the room.

If you are desirous of making a friendly or unprofessional acquaintance with a professional man, either leave your card with him, or be careful to tell him that you will be happy if he will visit you. Otherwise he will, as a matter of course, consider your visit to him as purely professional, and will not run the risk of returning a call which was not intended to be reciprocated. We have known several forward professional people get into “an awkward fix” by returning visits made merely in a professional way, and by so doing subjecting themselves to disagreeable remarks

Visiting Cards

When a family arrive in London, they should send out cards to their acquaintances to inform them of that event, as well as of their address.

The names of the daughters who have been presented are to be inscribed on the cards of their mothers.

One card is sufficient for a mother and daughters to leave, and should there be daughters or sisters residing with the lady called on, the cornel Dr comers of the card, may be turned down, to signify that the visit is meant for them also.

When a married lady makes a call, she may leave her husband’s card.

It is not unusual for persons to send cards by their servants to return visits; but this mode is considered disrespectful, excepting when it is to return thanks for “inquiries.”