After marriage the bridal party usually travel for a week or two, upon their return, it is customary for the bride to be "at home" for a few days, to receive visits. The first four weeks after marriage constitute the honeymoon.

You need not retain the whole of your previous acquaintance; those only to whom you send cards are, after marriage, considered in the circle of your visiting acquaintance. The parents or friends of the bride usually send the cards to her connexion; the bridegroom selects those persons among his former associates whom he wishes to retain as such. The cards are sometimes uuited by a silken cord, or white ribbon, to distinguish those of a newly-married pair from ordinary visitors; but it is doubtful whether it be in good taste.

A married lady may leave her own or her husband's card in returning a visit; the latter only would be adopted as a resource in the event of her not having her own with her.

A lady will not say, "My Husband," except among intimates; in every other case she should address him by his Christian name, calling him Mr. It is equally good ton, when alone with him to designate him by his Christian name

2927. Cobbett, in his "Advice to a Husband," says, "I never could see the sense of its being a piece of etiquette a sort of mark of good breeding, to make it a rule that man and wife are not to sit side by side in a mixed company that if a party walk out, the wife is to give her arm to some other than her husband; that if there be any other hand near, his its not to help to a seat or into a carriage. I never could see the sense of this; but I have always seen the nonsense of it plainly enough; it is in short, a piece of false refinement: it, being interpreted, means that so free are the parties from a liability to suspicion, that each man can safely trust his wife with another man, and each woman her husband with another woman. But this piece of false refinement, like all others, overshoots its mark; it says too much; for it says that the parties have lewd thoughts in their minds." This is the sensible view taken of part of the etiquette of marriage, by a man of extreme practical sense.