A "Wife Loaves Ono Only of Her Hus bu/nd's Cards This Season. Tho latest edict in the etiquette- of card leaving, according to bbc New York Sun, relieves us from the necessity of disbribub ing a shower of pasteboards all along the weary way we traverse in a calling expedi tion, fchab is if we would follow English customs. A few years ago ifc became a fixed rule that a woman calling on a hus band and wife without her consort should leave two of his cards and one of her own with fche servant afc the door. But the great; calling world has gradually decided that it is intensely stupid to use up twice as many of a man's cards as of a woman's, when it is plain that a call on the wife is a call ou the husbaud. ' Consequently, unless you are very punctilious, it is considered quite sufficient to leave one gentleman's card. The lady's card should be left only when fche hostess is out, except in the case cf a first call, and should not be left at "at homes," teas or receptions if you would be English and up to date. The fashionable card for aladyisashade pmaller than that of last year. Ifc couldn't be a shade larger without resembling a reception or dinner invitation, so the reduc tion was a coercive measure. The man's card is smaller and narrower than that of former years, the proper dimensions being one and a half inches in width and a little more than three inches in length.
Social Brevities.
