Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-15

. You send three invitations two or three
weeks ahead to insure the presence Of some of
your guests, for people always avoid a nlusi-
Gale if possible, as they do an appointment
with a dentist or an interview with a credit
or. Then you set about procuring your tai
ent for the occasion, and mortgage most of
your property to pay them. You must send
O carriage for every artist separately, for
they are usually such antagoDistic rivals that
they couldn't be expected TO ride the length OF
the block in the same vehicle. You furnish
them with flowers, add your unbounded graf
itude to the modest sum you pay and dress
yourself in some quiet home dress, with no
bonnet OF glove, to receive your guests Some
times you give a musical luncheon, where you
vary the programme by inviting d small num-
Der of your most intimate friends to luncheon
and have the music afterward, TO which it IS
quite CONNIE il faut TO invite as many people
las YOU can accommodate in yoUr rooms,
though they were not present at the luncheon.
Musical breakfasts are on the same general
order, occurring little earlier IN the day,
sthough l o'clock is the fashionable hour.
.Sometimes the music precedes the breakfast,
land frequently band OF conoealed musicians
play through the meal As well
! The style of music is extremely classical
tand very heavy. We are SO cultured and
tmeiDdions now that we don't enjoy any har-
,InDnv that we really can understand, and we
talk very knowingly of shading and motives,
touch end phrases and expression, though, of
course, we don't know what any of it really
means The others donot understand either,
so il doesn't signify; no one knows II you
make mistake A stylish musicale is hard
Nv complete now without the Hungarian
band, and the leader of that peculiar institu-
ton has been so fattered and feted in Aneri-
ca that he forgetS sometimes that he was
once hired asa Mind Of upper servant by the
Countess Esterhazys father, who employed
him to entertain bis guests as he hired the
butler to pour their wines. Mrs. Hicks-Lord
was convsgsant Of the fact, and when, on
somewhat recent occasion, she paid 5000 or
$500 for his services and he asked in addition
to be presented to her guests, she aired her
knowledge of his former situation with great
promptitude.
If you really want to spend money on
musicale you can invite your personal friends
to entertain the guests instead Of hired
operate stars. OF course, they don't charge
you anything, as they are not professional;
You Just make them some little triding pres
ents Of brown stone block, a carriage and
horses, diamond tiara and some other little
things of that kind, and remain forever under
a burden of gratitude besides. 1t is Hike hav-
ing tickets sent you for the theatre or opera
by a friend; you have to give them some
thing in return that costs more than box in
the grand row.
A musicale returns any kind Of an obliga-
tion--a dinner, luncheon. reception or tea
and costs more than all of them in one. Some
people give series of musicales, three or four
Ia number, but one handsome musicale in the
season is all that is really required or often
given.-Interview in New York Sun.