It is kind also to ask what he especially deores to
see, and to put him in the way of seeing it, and of
meeting people who can assist him, if he has special
plans of business or pleasure to carry out. The per-
son introduced should of course make a return visit,
calling within a week after any entertainment to which
he is asked, or in acknowledgment of other hospitality
shown him.
One may write on one's visiting-card " Introducing
Mrs. Zed," and give it to a friend. The person to
whom Mrs. Zed presents it, need not extend any social
attentions to the bearer.
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CHAPTER XXV

LBTTEBS AND NOTES

As the steel pen drove out its gentle brother the
quill, so it in turn is being driven out by the telegraph
wirci the type-writer, and the thousand other novel
agencies which are constantly springing up in our
midst as if by magic. People do not have time in this
busy age to write letters, in the old-fashioned sense of
the word. The tel^^aph wire is such a convenient
medium for letting one's friends know of one's well-
being, that people of means do not hesitate to use it
daily, instead of writing to their families; while for
business communications, the type-writer saves the
busy man from the drudgery of handling the pen.
The telephone too has become one of the necessities
of modem life. Probably the most luxurious method
is that of using a phonograph to take down the golden
utterances of a merchant prince, whose words, however
worthless to posterity, have a momentous market value
altogether beyond the conception of a mere outsider.
