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Show Serving Cocktails? Do you give parties? Of course you do. Cocktail parties? Maybe. Do you serve drinks? Many hosts and hostesses do. If you do, then these hints are for you. Perhaps you have had a guest who politely said, "No, thank you," when the drinks we're served. Perhaps you accepted this and offered a soft drink. Or perhaps you insisted: "Just a little one. . . . this is very good. . it's not strong at all." Consider These Points Think twice if your guest refuses re-fuses a drink. He (or she) may be someone who struggled . for many bitter years to free himself him-self from alcoholism. This one glass which may seem a harmless pleasure' to you, could mean the beginning of a painful relapse for him. Or your guest may b someone some-one who docs n.ot drink because he instinctively feels that if he got started he could not stop. If you were aware of any of I this, you surely would not want to urge these people. You would not want to shoulder such a great responsibility. respon-sibility. But even if your guest should just not like the taste of alcohol, alco-hol, or should suffer discomfort from it yes, even if it goes against his principles he has I good reason to refuse. I Never insist on anyon'e iak-i I ;nq a drink. I Following this simple rule of etiquette may have greater consequences con-sequences than you know. If all hosts and hostesses heeded it, the problem of alcoholism, alco-holism, might be gretly reduced. National Committee for Education on Alcoholism |