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Show 1 I f Informal Teas Make Entertaining Easier True Hospitality Ignores Limited Facilities Editor's note: The thirteenth article ef thla aerlee on etiquette will be on mannere In a porta, and will appear In the Saturday Telegram. Tele-gram. By ANNE ELOME SWEENEY re tf yew Hve ie ar Mny apartment apart-ment you can entertain your friende gracioualy If you really want to. True hoapltality create! a warm feeling that rlaee above Umted clr-cumatancaa. clr-cumatancaa. Since It la baaed on a consideration for others, Just aa the rulea of etiquette. If your hoapltality la genuine, you can uae etiquette rulee aa you aee fit If your feclliilea for entertaining entertain-ing are limited, a delightful way to entertain your friend la to invite them In fpr tea. Have Just a few at a time and you'll enjoy the Informality In-formality and the Intimacy Just aa much aa they will. You can have your tea wagon or a tray arranged with your tea aervice before they come and bring It Into the living room when you're ready to aerve. Have a few daintiee they needn't be elaborate at all and put them on each plate as you aerve It or paaa them to the guests. If you have a few email tables, place one beside each guaat for their convenience. Ja -i( "afcJ T"eW . i 1 1 ' ' . , This attractive table hat been arranged for a small and Informal tea. The cups and toucan, each with a spoon; the plate (or the little c&lei, and rhe teapot I he If are 1 in reedineu to ba utad when the hoiteu wants to serve. If you want to have more than Just a few for tea, you can arrange your dining room table with an attractive at-tractive centerpiece and candle and place the tea aervice at one end, coffee or punch et the other, and ask two of your cloee friends to pour. If the hours tor your tea are long, have othere relieve them and ask others to assist by serving the guests. If you like, you csn put a line of chairs around the dining room so the guests may ait down and be served by one of those assisting. as-sisting. The buffet aupper or luncheon la another boon to the hostess with limited facilities and help. Set the table with plates, salving dishee of food and let the guests help themselves them-selves or have someone serve them. You may arrange card tables for them to sit st, or Just let them find places to eat wherever they want to. If you uae card tables, the beverage could be at each place and the dessert passed later. Otherwise, Other-wise, have the silver and napkin, too, on the buffet and let them eome back for their dessert Buffet luncheone are equally simple sim-ple to give. Affaira up to 12:30 o'clock In the morning are called breakfasts, after that luncheons, though there le no particular difference dif-ference In the menu. Even et! you have no help you can, with a little thought and planning, plan-ning, give a alt-down dinner party or luncheon at home. Plan everything every-thing with expediency and convenience conve-nience as your first considerstion. Plan the food so that the hot food will be hot when served, and ao that the service t will move smoothly and quickly,' and guests' won't have to wait between courses. If you're cooking it yourself or have someone to help, be surs what you have can be easily and successfully success-fully prepared. A dinner party ia no time to experiment with new recipea. It used to be that all dishes were removed from the right and put down from the left. To avoid the running around behind the chair that thie entails, it ia now perfectly correct to pick tip the used plate from the left and put down the fresh plate from the aame aide. The hostess may or may nqt be served flrat. as she likes. If there Is a difficult dish to manage, ahe1 might start It so the othera can aee how ahe doea it Otherwise, it'a better for her to be served last In planning your msnu for dinner, din-ner, be careful not to select dishee that require saucee and so forth that have to be passed separately if you have only one person to aerve. The hostess must keep her eye on everything at once. She must aee that everyone la served, that everyone haa aomeone to talk to, and even If a terrific crash occurs in the kitchen, she must ignore it. If the maid makes a blunder, she may correct her quietly and Inconspicuously, Incon-spicuously, but she ehould not let the guests feel uncomfortable In any way. And, of course, if anything any-thing doea go wrong, the polite guest must be equally dumb and aee and aay nothing. Guests should make a point of being on time. It la the height of rudeness to be unduly lata when invited for a meal. A hostess Is perfectly Justified In sitting down without a guest If shs haa waited a reasonable length of time. |
