Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-08

edge as well as tact to confer pleasure
upon guests. Possessed of tact a woman
can easily overcome lack of exact
knowledge, but deficient III both the case
is well nigh hopeless.
Perhaps there can be no safer guide
for neophyte in the service of hospI-
tally than to remember the title OF a
once popular novel, 'Put Yourself in
His Place, - and if ones instincts
are not essentially coarse they will serve
for a safe guide. Take for example q
case where you are expecting friends
from distance, you have invited them
to partake of your hospitality, expecting
them, you baked, brewed and stewed +,
the broom has invaded every corner, no
intrusive speck of dust annOys your sense
of niceness; as the hour draws nigh for
the coming the children and yourself are
dressed with unusual care. Now comes
that putting in anOther's place, picture
yourself dusty, warm, tired and
tumbled, would the contrast that one in
such q plight must make be pleasing TO
your inner sense of fitness? First a cor
dial greeting then a conduct to room
well aired, or warmed if in winter, an
abundance of everything needful to re-
move all trace of travel, and all this
offered i'll quiet unobtTusive way; re-
freshed and renovated the guest enters
the drawing room with feeling of CRATE
full satisfaction that fixes you in the mind
as a model host.
It is well to bear in mind that such
provision is appreciated by gentlemen as
well as ladies, and is essential for them
in party preparation and when they are
received as hOuored guests in the house.
OF course, men deny any penchant for
looking in mirror, but every gentleman
feels better when entering the presence
of ladies to know that his tie is properly
adjusted, that the hyperion curl is not
wandering, and that his coat collar shows
no want of brush.
Fact and knowledge are both requi-
sites in guiding conversation, avoiding
unfortunate topics and steering clear of
all personalities, and it is in these things
that the genuine host instinct is mani
tested. To regale a friend with a
ragout made up of servants ineficien-
cies, and a detailed account of daily ex-
pendituTe, is to make one's guest COM
Dute the expense and annoyance
they may occasion, while a recital
of nursery wisdom as it crops out
in the sayings of mothers darling is at
times nauseating if not insulting to ma
ture intelligence.
So much has been said of a recital of
physical ills that there ought to be little
danger that they be made topic of talk &.
It is neither restful nor entertaining to
hear of another s worries, it IS not i'm
proving or elevating to dwell upon the
faults of others and it is never kind to
pursue a subject until 1t becomes wearl-
some; life is full of dTudgery, is full of
sorrow, every back and heart, too, aches
at times, but the object of social inter
course is for the time to put these in the
background and find sweetness and light
someness by association with friends and
associates.
To obtain this pleasure is worth an effort
and better than all books on etiquette is
the inward promptings of q loving heart
that rarely, if ever, fail on state or
simpler occasions to direct course that
tends to mutual pleasure. Trifles are
not unimportant; a little speck of dust
chokes important machinery and the
want of presence or things quite so small
may mar the pleasure of an deliberately
prepared entertainment, or blight the
promised pleasure of the long anticipated
visit of friend.
RECIPES.
Stuffed eggs-Peel hard boiled eggs,
remove the yolks and mix to paste with