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TO ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT.

TO ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT.
Ny Dear Miss Schuyler:-
! Please give me a simple pretty
! form for the announcement OF my
! engagement to relatives, and on an
! other occasion to my girl friends.
Would like this at home.
have read your articles with much
| interest.
New York City NJ. d.
! Would you like to give an announce
ment tea? | fancy from your letter
that this event may vary. Accord
| ing TO your own wish YOU may write
! your friends OF the engagement when
you invite them, or you may wait un-
I'll they arrive, and then some mem
Der of yoEr family, or yourself, may
make the announcement
4 pretty way OF doing when ones
relatives are guests. and that which
NEST ploaScs them, as rule, Is 70
ask them TO supper, CT dinner, the
former being as satisfactory ard more
formal, and 10 have your tiance pres
ent, and none others. You may have
as elaborate or as simple supper
as you choose. and just before the
finish your father or brother, or your
mother, should you have no near
male relatives, announce the engage
ment It may be done something III
this fashion
Il am particularly glad to have you
here because there is something spe-
cial TO tell you which pleases us, and
| know will interest you. After hav-
ing done our best to make our daugh-
ter think that our home is the place
for her, she has decided that she pre-
fers her own home and that she will
be happier with another person.
Therefore she is going to try it, and
her mother and | heartily approve.
Having done the same ourselves with
great success we cheer her on, and
we hope you will, too, when we tell
you she is engaged to Jackson Froth-
ingham. VIII you join in a toast to
them?'
This sort Of speech is open to end
less changes, of course. The toast
may be omitted, but it adds to the
joyousness of the occasion. The en-
gagged couple do not drink the toast.
A tea answers the purpose admir-
ably for your friends. You either in
vite them by note telling of the en-
gagement. or you may send visiting
cards on which is written a day, date,
and hour, and on their arrival tell
them the news. When invited H.
visiting cards, as suggested, tea and |
cakes should be served, following the |
procedure precisely Of any other af-
ternoon tea. Even when an engage |
ment is announced in this way, it is |
the custom to write notes to ones |
intimate friends, telling the news be-
fore they can hear it from outsiders.
Such note may read
MY Dear Aline:-I want you to be
the first to know of my en-
gagement 10 Jackson rockingham,
which we shall announce at tea, on
Wednesday afternoon. l hope you
will be at home at five O'Clock. l know
you will congratulate me when you
know how happy l am, and | want
you to take Jackson into the friend
ship which you and have enjoyed for
so long. MARTHA"
An announcement note of this kind
should be acknowledged by the re-
Schuyler, in the
New York Telegram.
THE TALES THE ADS" TELL.
The days of convalescence drag for
most invalids. But when the patient
S very young, those about him-or
ler-are sometimes hard put to it
o find amusement that will interest
md not excite. Very often there is
'estlessness that makes even stories
and we'll told stories-pall upon the
ar, so eager and so keen in health.
\ mother who had been driven to
Ter wits end in such case found
Aviation in a collection of pictures
ut from astonishingly well illus
rated advertisements fore and aft of
he magazines. These furnished both
ubjects and illustrations for stories.
The little boy patient eagerly Sc
ected the picture he wanted to be
old about and the story teller found
cry good material for her narrative
Without the pain of invention.
Several times she illustrated a
lassic. 1t was not difficult to find
ictures of "Cinderellas Slippers"
nd the dresses of the prosecuted
maiden and her naughty sisters,
lille fearsome adventures were sug-