Appalling Card Etiquette.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 387, 24 July 1889, Page 6

Appalling Card Etiquette.

Tin; families of Chief- Justice Fuller and Senator Evarbs are very thick. lb has brought about a remarkable reform in certain social customs. The celebrated writer on etiquette, Miss Pussie Sherwood, declares with emphasis that in making calls cards should bo left for every mernner of the family. In strict adherence to this rule, when the seven Evarts girls went over to call on the Fullers they had to leave cardb of themselves and papa and mamma Evarts for papa and mamma Fuller and the eight Fuller girls, that is :— 7 plus 2 times 2 plus 8 equals 90. Each time they had made a call they had to leave 90 cards on the hall-table, and when the Fuller girls went to see the Evarts family they had to leave 90 cards to do the thine in proper shape. Now those girls would die, each and every one 'of them, rather than do a single thing which was not perfectly chic and recherche and au fait and en r<^ylc and cafe" au lait, especially the Fuller girls, and as they run back and forth- to see each other in their innocent girlish way not less than four times a day, the equation stood at the end of the month : 90 times 2 times, 4 times 30 equals 21,600. Justice Fuller came here about October 1, and by the end of the year his dear girls had used over 30,000 cards calling on the Evarts girls, and not less than 30,000 moro calling on other precious creatures, and the house was lull of cards. He couldn't pick up a book or put down a hand without giabbing a handful of cards. The house was carpeted with cards. It is the same way over at Senator Evarts'. The JudgQ had been drawing his $10,500 a year in monthly instalments, and paying his landlord #1,000 a month with commendable regularity and cheerfulness. But svhen January Ist came round, and the staHoner ran in a bill of R6OO for printing 60,000 visiting cards, tho Judge felt apprehensive. The stationer had the thing down fine. To accommodate the girls, ho had been putting the cards up in neat little decks of ten — jusfc family decks, you see. Then, when a call was made, a pack was left for each member of the family called upon. And the Evarts girl& had theirs fixed the same was*-. So convenient, didn't have to break a deck. The Justice carefully brushed his hat 1 that evening. Ho had thought of buying a new tile as a new year's present, but he , put away the notion, and gave the old one a whirl against the benzine rag. Then he put it on, washed his hands casefully, gave his moustacho a twit-t, and went over to Senator Evarts'. He looked longingly at a passing stieot-car, but resolutely himself against the temptation and walked. The Senator and the Justico had a long, confidcntal talk, and parted with a cordial grasp of the hand. The next day a furniture van, heavily laden, went h-om the Evaitb house to cho Fuller house, and a big two-horse dray, loaded to the scuppers? toiled from the Justice's to the Senator's. The girls were exchanging cards. Now, when they make calls on each other, they just bang on the newel post and holler upstairs. — ' Washington Post.'