Depression Era Card Etiquette

Forty years after this playful pup chewing a newspaper was created to hold calling cards, the etiquette of punctilious of card leaving was no longer practiced in large cities like New York, but the custom continued in smaller communities through the United States.

Wondering when should cards be left? Etiquette no longer demands the paying of “party calls”, and in New York, in particular, punctilious card leaving, days at home and visiting have gone out of fashion, although in other communities, particular smaller one, it is considered good form to receive calls and to make them. The individual should adapt himself to the ways of the community in which he lives. In all cities however, certain conventions should be observed by those most indifferent to social obligations. – From “Standard Rules of Etiquette,” 1930

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