Duchesne Record | 1914-08-14 | Page 3 | What Makes Good Hostess

WHAT MAKES GOOD HOSTESS Ability to Entertain Lavishly Is a aVery aVery aVery Very Small Part of Her Qualifications A talent for originality Is not sufficient suf ott- to make a good hostess that hostess that goes without saying It is not the mountebank bo sho bo boins wins ins the genuine praise of ot the initiated but the real wit iho ho has the gift of oC magnetism that magnetism that thatis is of sympathy with what is human and lasting and lasting and can touch the heart erf or an audience Is it not the drama That that can move mO to 10 tears that remains on tho the boards the longest And IsIt is isit it t not the woman who loves her kind who keeps their affection who draws people to her whether she is rich in inthis inthis inthis this worlds world's goods or fortune turns flits Its back and leaves her little resource beyond her delightful personality lIty I F Mme received her friends with the same grace in her shabby floored brick little room room all all that re- re erses allowed her her her-as as when she had It in her almost royal manion manion man- man jion ion In the Faubourg Saint LNOr Nor or did they gather less eagerly there than han in her beautiful home because he retained in her poverty Jo the same charm the same qualities that had made her the most sought woman uman in tade Paris aris I The essential thing tiling to successful entertaining Is that instinctive knowledge knowl know edge dge of or and sympathy with human nature which enables one to put peor peo- peo r pie at their ease and make them happy From From Novel Nove Ways o of Entertaining Enter Enter- taming by Florence Forence Hall hail Winter Winter- burn burn t I