The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

ladies who have been glfls contempora- " with them.
 To pencil through the names of their mothers on every such occasion is, they | think, not quite an up-to-date proceed ing-it is a continual reminder that their mothers are unacquainted With these friends of theirs, which is not | complimentary to those called upon, | while not to pencil through the moth- CTS names would be taking an unfair | advantage of them, inferring that they l have done that which they had not ln- tended doing, viz, calling upon the mothers of their daughters friends.
 Another side of the subject is that 1 not unfrequently young married ladies
 are we'll inclined to invite girls to their l houses whose mothers they do not care
 to number among their calling &C., l quaintances.
 I The girls are pretty and we'll dressed
 and able to take part in all that is go- ing on, and their mothers are perhaps | the reverse of all this, not up-to-date, decidedly oldfashioned, if not common place: therefore it is considered waste of time to know them, and whether ' cards are left after a dance or whether they are left when calling in the ordi- nary way the names of the mothers would convey no meaning to those up- on whom they were left; but 1t should be well understood that girls under twenty-five would be ill-advised to take up the line of independence evinced by having separate cards of their own. Little enough chaperonage is required
 from mothers at the present day but as
 regards calling they exercise a certain
 supervision over their young daughters,
 and the calling is done in the company
 of their mothers Girls are too apt to
 underrate the advantage the moral sup
 port the names of their mothers convey
 in defining their social position. "Who
 is Miss Jones?" might be asked on
 glancing at card left; but Mrs.
 Jones, Miss Mary Jones. explains that
 she has a mother to take care Of her,
 and Is not alone in the world
 When girls are visiting away from
 home for any length of time separate
 cards are by no means necessary, as even here, if cards have to be left by them, which is very unusual, their mothers cards bearing their names are better passports than would be cards
 NIlU Llte IldIlcS pi tlit lio pi4iS' hS calling that comes into force during Vis- it's concerns the hostesses rather than the guests as a general rule, and these latter are more passive than active in | the matter.
 Motherless girls must of necessity l have visiting cards with their names | printed upon them, in addition to hav- ing their names printed conjointly with | their fathers names, upon small sized | ladies visiting cards, there being many | occasions on which to leave their fath- CTS cards would be out of order, nota- ply when calling upon girls of their own ages, or upon ladies unknown to their fathers. Many widowers do not care to go to dances and evening parties with their daughters, and are consequently not invited and thus the daughters cards only can be left after the same; indeed, there are numerous instances when this holds good.
 When sister acts as mistress of her brothers house she requires separate cards, and in this case no joint cards are printed, each having separate cards of their own. A sister can leave her brothers cards with her own by desire, 1 case of husbands and wives. Sisters residing together use their own discre- ton as to whether the names shall ap- pear upon one card or whether separate cards shall be used. The ages of the sisters usually decide this point
 In the case of young girls the names should appear upon the same card. but f well on in life separate cards are more useful and more general Girls Nhcse occupations call them from their homes, although their mothers are still lying, have separate cards of their own IS matter of course, they could hard y dc otherwise when standing thus llone, but then they are following va- 'ious careers, and works Is in itself an adequate reason for this independent curse of action.-London Queen