Even if given for a débutante daughter, her name does not appear, and it is called a "small dance," whether it is really small or big. The request for a reply is often omitted, since everyone is supposed to know that an answer is necessary. But if the dance, or dinner, or whatever the entertainment is to be, is given at one address and the hostess lives at another, both addresses are always given: Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Oldname request the pleasure of company at a dance on Monday evening the sixth of January at ten o'clock The Fitz-Cherry Kindly send response to Brookmeadows L.I. If the dance is given for a young friend who is not a relative, Mr. and Mrs. Oldname's invitations should request the pleasure of company at a dance in honour of Miss Rosalie Grey =WHEN AND HOW ONE MAY ASK FOR AN INVITATION FOR A STRANGER= One may never ask for an invitation for oneself anywhere! And one may not ask for an invitation to a luncheon or a dinner for a stranger. But an invitation for any general entertainment may be asked for a stranger--especially for a house-guest. Example: Dear Mrs. Worldly, A young cousin of mine, David Blakely from Chicago, is staying with us. May Pauline take him to your dance on Friday? If it will be inconvenient for you to include him, please do not hesitate to say so frankly. Very sincerely yours, Caroline Robinson Town. Answer: Dear Mrs. Town, I shall be delighted to have Pauline bring Mr. Blakely on the tenth. Sincerely yours, Edith Worldly. Or A man might write for an invitation for a friend. But a very young girl should not ask for an invitation for a man--or anyone--since it is more fitting that her mother ask for her. An older girl might say to Mrs. Worldly, "My cousin is staying with us, may I bring him to your dance?" Or if she knows Mrs. Worldly very well she might send a message by telephone: "Miss Town would like to know whether she may bring her cousin, Mr. Michigan, to Mrs. Worldly's dance." =CARD OF GENERAL INVITATION= Invitations to important entertainments are nearly always especially engraved, so that nothing is written except the name of the person invited; but, for the hostess who entertains constantly, a card which is engraved in blank, so that it may serve for dinner, luncheon, dance, garden party, musical, or whatever she may care to give, is indispensable. The spacing of the model shown below, the proportion of the words, and the size of the card, are especially good. Mrs. Stevens requests the pleasure of company at on at o'clock Two Elm Place =THE DINNER INVITATION= The blank which may be used only for dinner: Mr. and Mrs. Huntington Jones request the pleasure of company at dinner on at eight o'clock