Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-08-30
The IDEAL HOSTE IS.

Some of US are fortunate enough Il
have met and been entertained by tn,
! Ideal Hostess in her own house. All
of us would like 10 initiate her in Sul
! own homes. Very few of us can do SO
but in sort of despairinG admiration
v wonld like to make little study ol
| her methods.
Yes, methods; for as surely as grape
| do not grow upon thcrns, the brilllan
| successes of our Ideal Hostess, are no
the result of accident. IN evening
| at her house is full OF charm-not tC
| one alone, or to some specially favored
| clique, but to all of her guests. Here
are Greybead and Goldilocks; the
a. 6utTnte, and the still young woman
| who IS hegun to fear that she is get
! ting g3ISScc; the litternteur, the busi.
lie man, and men of the learned pro.
| fessions; the college under-gra iuate,
/ and tho young man whose ambition
never ran in that direction, and bott
| single and married ladies OF certain
and uncertain ages aud habits q
| Thought. There are perhaps between
! forty and fifty persons IN all, and one
| might expect to find some discontente6
| ones II the diversity.
| Not at all. Listen to them as they
| leave the housel
The youngster who has never had al
"evening OUT before, is ravishcd be
cause Mrs. Charming has invited him
| to come again. "How often do you
think it would he proper for ne to &C
| next Winter?" he asks confideutially
| of the spinster aunt, whose escort he
has been on this happy occasion. Yet
/ he has not here met for the first
! time some call enchanting fair" Ii
! is the only charm of the whole which
| has impressed him.
| The spinster is also treading upon
: air. She has met two persons whom
I she has long desired to know. She hR;
not merely seen them at a distance
pains have been taken that she should
| have a few minutes converse with each.
| She, too, feels that she wishes it were
'proper" to go every evening next
winter.
A man whose presence is much sought
for at social entertainments of all sorts,
and who is correspondingly difficult to
secure for them, remarks to his vile as
he mounts the STAIRS OF the L. on his
homeward way, 81 haven't had such
delightful evening for years. If we're
in the city next winter, do let us come
!
plies, Just as they reach the platform,
"Oh, II every body's evenings were like
this one, how delightful society wOulO
bel"
GAS well try to dissect q soap bubble
as to look for the cause of all this
charm" says another, still under the
influence OF the spell.
Perhaps so, but it helps the would
IL, 70 Fl,oA
a certain combination of soap, water
and air is necessary before he can make
his bubbles; so We shall try to find ont
what are the materials used by our
Heal Hostess to make her evenings"
so universally enjoyed.
FILsT.-We judge, she has carefully
studied the little material things which
60 to making physical comfort and dis.
comfort. OF hot night her rooms are
as cool as they can he made, yet no
disagreeable draughts are felt, because
it is the upper sashes which are showed
down, and rot the lower which are uT,
and the gas, Instead of being at highest
flare, is turned low and shaded. This
thoughtfulness pervades all the minor
arrangements.
Knowing that she cannot be pc rson.
ally ubiquitous, our IDEAL Hostess al
most seems so by reason of the able
coadjutors whom her tact enlists to
help her carry out her intentions OF
"giving every one q good time.
Three or four of those scattered about,
keeping the ball rolling, are OF i'm.
, mense advantage, as everybody knows,
but only au Ideal Hostess wOuld know
how to select them, and, having
selected, to keep them we'll in hand,
like so many talented young Brigadiers
! carrying ont the wishes of the Com
mander -in-Chief.
, Perhaps the greatest secret Of all is
the self-forgetfulness Of this charming
T Commander. Her "eyenings' are not
; hers, bat those of her guests, to such q
degree that all feel under obligation,
, to perform the duties OF hosts to nj
their neighbors in the same way tina
[ the prlvates in an army feel that upoI
each individually devolves a degree 0
! responsibility for the success OF thu
. | whole.
{, HELEN EvEETsON SMITH