If this matter is, however, so vastly important in women's eyes, why not adopt the continental and diplomatic custom and send cards by post or otherwise? There, if a new-comer dines out and meets twenty-five people for the first time, cards must be left the next day at their twenty-five respective residences.How the cards get there is of no importance.It is a diplomatic fiction that the new acquaintance has called in person, and the call will be returned within twenty-four hours.Think of the saving of time and strength! In Paris, on New Year's Day, people send cards by post to everybody they wish to keep up.That does for a year, and no more is thought about it.All the time thus gained can be given to culture or recreation.
I have often wondered why one sees so few women one knows at our picture exhibitions or flower shows.It is no longer a mystery to me.They are all busy trotting up and down our long side streets leaving cards.Hideous vision! Should Dante by any chance reincarnate, he would find here the material ready made to his hand for an eighth circle in his INFERNO.