Good Manners Dear Mrs Boeckman on hosting and thank you notes
Reader seeks guidance on visiting over New Year with a classmate and about inviting families to a wedding. Advice emphasizes definite arrival and departure times, thank-you notes first to the host mother then to the guest, and warns that excluding families from a post-ceremony dinner risks offending relatives while supporting the couple’s wish to include attendants only.
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Boeckman
Milne
Hur
Mother
Anis
Mrs. Bookman
Ann
Alice
New York City
Wartime Advice and Domestic Dilemmas Across Letters
A collage of reader questions touches on wartime marriage etiquette miscommunications about in laws and stepfamilies, a request for how to phrase a proper wedding notice, and a column on military uniforms badges and family travel. It includes guidance on honor badges for discharge and notes on dog gas masks for service dogs, with references to Beechman, Fairfax, and Smith families and the China ink history.
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Army
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Marine Corps
Cenist
Beno Mins Fairfax
Chemical Warfare Service
Eloyvine
Phos Rene
Hing Feature Syndicate
Inv
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