Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1886 — Etiquette. [ARTICLE]

Etiquette.

The etiquette of the “At Home” isby no means the etique.tte of the ball, the lunch, or the dinner. People talk of sending in response to an “at home” which is not at all the thing to do. If a lady is not able to be present, she has but 4o mail her card to arrive on the afternoon on which the tea is given, and later when the hostess looks over her cards she discovers who were present in person and -who acknowledged her invitation by sending cards. The “At Hoffie”" fB ft miscellaneous affair, and special acceptances or regrets are quite out of place. The practice of removing the bonnet at lunch is almost exelusively confined to Boston. In .New York no lady would dream of removing her bonnet at lunch any more than she would in church. In the dining-room at the Windsor and the Victoria, it is exceptional to see a lady without a bonnet at the luncheon hour, while in Boston, at the Vendome, it is as exceptional to see one with her hat, unless it is a transient guest. — Boston Traveller. People are recognizing the danger attending the use of opium, and legislative bodies are being called upon to suppress the giowing evil. The only cough mixture which does not contain opiates, and yet is of remarkable efficacy, is Red Star Cough Cure. 25 cents. A city mission reports that only $30,000 are spent on the souls of the twelve thousand persons cared for by the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections of New York City, at a cost of $1,500,000 for their material wants. —Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly. For twenty years Mrs. John Gemmill, Milroy, Mifflin County, Penna., could not walk, on account of an injury to the spine. One bottle of St. Jacobs Oil gave relief; the second enabled her to walk and cured her.