Stocking

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Stocking

stocking
Shelf of Welcome,
sure to remember that a
description has nothing to do with etiquette
make
it possible
any time to any number,
stay! We
have
supper a in a few minutes.”
be sure to replenish your shelf so
you will be ready

HOSPITALITY NOT DEPENDENT UPON WEALTH
one is able to spend very little
young couple
in a single room that
the room can be made into the
sitting-
room
ask friends they care for-and others are of no importance-
to come to their “home in a room.”
people do things
hospitality,
fail, it is
mentally
actually apologize,
is fatal. They entirely over-
look the fundamental fact that hospitality is far more dependent upon
lavishness of provision.
real secret
party-giving
simply
gift

outgrowing a child’s imagination. In other words, the spirit of “let’s pre-tend,” which enters into the play of all children, is the very spirit that animates the subconscious mind of every ideal hostess.

Unless you really love the game of hospitality, unless you delight to have the friends you like share your festival, your party, even though it be given in a palace with rows of lackeys and a ton of choicest viands, will be but a heavy procession of over-richly laden minutes.

Whereas if the enthusiasm of your welcome springs from innate friend-liness-from joy in furthering the delight of good-fellowship beneath your own roof–you need have little doubt that those who have ac cepted your hospitality once will eagerly look forward to doing so again and again.

Solutions to other problems of the lady without a maid will be found in many chapters of this book, particular those on “Simple Party-
Giving” and “Modern Dinner-Giving.”