The following letter well illustrates how the use of a
little tact may go "a long way."
A CORRECT LETTER TO A BEARDED LADY
My dear Mrs. Lenox:
I wonder if you would care to go with us to the opera Wednesday
evening? The Cromwells have offered us their box for that night,
which accounts for our selection of that particular evening.
"Beggars cannot be choosers," and while personally we would all
rather go on some other night, yet it is perhaps best that we do
not refuse the Cromwells' generous offer. Then, too, Wednesday is
really the only evening that my husband and I are free to go, for
the children take so much of our time on other nights. I do hope,
therefore, that you can go with us Wednesday to hear "The Barber
of Seville."
Sincerely,
Esther G. (Mrs. Thomas D.) Franklin.
INVITATIONS
The form of the invitation depends a great deal upon the
character of the function to which one wishes to invite the
guests to whom one issues the invitation. Or, to put it more
simply, invitations differ according to the nature of the party
to which one invites the guests. In other words, when issuing
invitations to invited guests one must have due regard for the
fact that these invitations vary with the various types of
entertainments for which one issues the invitations. That is to
say, one would obviously not send out the same form of invitation
to a wedding as to a dinner party, and vice versa.
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