New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-10

Social U.4YS IN INDIA.
From, TeBlDie Bar.

From Temple Bar.
The etiquette of calls IN India is that they should
be paid by the last conner between the hours OF :
and 2 and anyone is az liberty to call on all the
people who have arrived at station before him.
Everybody in society, oil going u the chlct town
of a province, leaves a card at Government ltOnse
and recej yes an invitation 10 dinner or ball W!th
r. ;. =. TO So-and,so % IN The corner. These
mysterious letters have been known TO cause some
difficulty to lndia-bOrn officials OF the uncoye-
nanted class, who, by obtaining the wished-ior
distinction of gazettsd appointment, ma inelh-
selves admitted TO "A society above the level OF ther
earlier days. There Is story, SAID TO DC wholly
true of a worthy couple who were anxious, before
going to anew station 10 part from their Ola neigh
bOIs with every graceful and appropriate form OF
farewell and long and sadly they pondertd over
the cards they were to leave. " know the ladies
do write something III the corners OF tnclI caIds
when they are going away. SAID the Vile, but |
don't like to ask nyOOdy what 1t IL, because that
would show We did not know ourselves She had
better have asked. poor lady. or else put nothing
at all tor her husband, who was familiar with no
combination of letters without words save ii.
and T. o. suggested she shonid I0oK through ali inc
cards she had received She DID So there was
none with p p. c.. but there was card OF invita-
ton to an entertainment at Government House
that must be right surely-the mysterious initials
good enough for high officials must he good enough
for her, and the station was convuisod with
laughter when in every house appeared farewell
mir AND Mrs. IA COSTA.
ar S. J. Pr
II rather amusing to watch the arrival on horse
back OF a visitor VINO wisely wears an ugly ana uh-
head from the fierce sunshine, while Sais runs
behind carrying the tail glossy hat which his
master brings into your drawing room AMI strokes
during his visit. 1t is always hopeless TO give one
name to native servant, ITS manglcd remains
would be long past recognition OYtne ilme they
reached his mistress; so the proper thing To do
after ascertaining that lady Is at home Is To send
in YOUR card or "Lcket,' .andiwalt until The ser
want returns to give You her " salaam Ladies get
very much perpleXcd sometimes rs TO the personal
identity of their visitors. Thus when pair of
friends 20 round together to make calls during
their holiday in the Hills, how Is a Hostess who
never saw either OF them before, to discover from
their occasionally rather bashful CONVERSATION
which gentleman is Mr.. Jones and which IS Mr..
smith Ii she asks them to dinner aiterward for
different evenings she is sure TO ind the man she
took for Smith responds to JOnes's invitation, and
vice versa.
In the wholesale system of calling pursued in the
Hills If often happens that YOU have to entertain at
dinner guests whose personal appearance Is entirely
unkuown to you. These ladies' whose husbands
are unable to get leave from wOfk ~ the Plains.
have ca led upon your wife without seeing her ana
she has returned the visit with the same result 30
yOu are both dependent the QucBness oi your
own faculties to discover from their preliminary
talk which is the most important lady whom you
must taKe in TO dinner; You know her name. OF
cuurse and probably all about her but you have
no idea which of your guests she Is. As the hrst
visitor is seen approaching, servant enters and
announces " \ lady comes" 80 You 90 out ana
receive on your threshold an utter stranger, to
whom you offer your arm 10 the drawlnS'roonl, ana
make Yourself as charming as circumstances per
init suntil the announcement of another lady. whom
Won must receive III the same manner, and 50 on
until all the party is assembled.