Paper wedding.  The first wedding anniversary is
       called the paper wedding, and is not usually
       celebrated.  If, however, it is celebrated,
       the invitations may bear the words:  No
       presents received.  Congratulations should be
       extended in accepting or declining the
       invitations.  Any article of paper would be an
       appropriate gift.  An entertainment should
       follow.

Parties.  These are less formal than balls.

They generally begin at nine or nine-thirty, with dancing at ten-thirty or eleven.  The supper precedes the dancing.  Those who do not take part in the dancing may leave before it begins.

  Invitations.  These are engraved, giving hour
       for beginning in lower left-hand corner, and
       should be sent two weeks in advance.  One
       envelope only need be used.  They should
       be answered promptly.

PATRONESSES.  It is customary for the management
       of any institution giving a public ball to
       formally invite six, eight, or more married
       women to act as patronesses, and for their
       names to appear on the invitations.  If
       badges are worn, each patroness is sent one
       or given one at the ball-room.

The patronesses, after being welcomed at
the ball by the management committees, take
their places, ready to receive the guests.

The Committee of Arrangements should look after the patronesses, introduce distinguished guests to them, escort them to supper and finally to their carriages.

See also Cotillions by subscriptions—­
patronesses.  Dances.

Peaches should be quartered and the quarters peeled,
       then taken up by the fingers and eaten.

Peas are eaten with a fork.

Plums and Grapes should be eaten one by one, and
       the pits allowed to fall noiselessly into the
       half-closed hand and then transferred to the
       plate.

Postal cards.  It is wise to restrict the use of
       postals to impersonal communications; but if
       they must be used, the message should be
       brief with an apology for its use.  It is a
       good plan in addition to omit the usual My
       dear, and to sign with the initials only and
       the full surname.

Postponing dinners See canceling dinners.

Postponing weddings.  See weddings—­invitations
         recalled.

PRECEDENCE.

Dinners.  See dinners—­precedence.

Funerals.  See funerals—­precedence.

Theatre.  See theatre—­precedence.