Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-23
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 My dear says Mr Charlton Jaa9 We rcally an,As b give card party CT a reception or something. We've been going and going ever since Te moved here, and it's time we returned some Of the ooa1teaios we havo receiv cd !"
 les, Of course wonust, ? agrees the feminine dear appealed to- T feel that we can't put it of any longer, but dread it. There's so much to think of and arrange # the entertainment is to be an entire success. There are the ta ble decorations, tlle china. the flowers and the meifu. If VIC have dancing, there are tlie favors to be arranged, CT else wo must have somebody to sing or read CT do something to entertain the guests. Then 1 must have q new gown, and the girls too. It seems q terrible undeftaline. but [ suppose l must go through gisil it, and the prospective l hostess siehs as she thinks of her many responsibilities.
 The time has come when Mrs. Charl- ton Judd or Mrs Anybody Else who wishes to entertain may do so without giving heraalf the slightest trouble. She has simply to apply to the bureau of social requirements. put the affair in the hands Of its nanagers, and the din- Ter, tea, e0tilieu Gr reception will come off without further effort on her part, | hI son entered new field in the range Of occupations fer womea. There are ea. terers, of course, and scores Of florists ready to da thair part toward the sue cess of private entertainment, but never before ii New York has a hostess been ablo t8 resign to bureau the en- tire management of a party from the composition of the nae8u and the design for tho cards of invitation tosuggestioHs as to her own toilet. Miss Garrison has at her command staff of chefs ready to coneoet dainty dishes and buffers whose dignified department will add splendor to any entertainment. She proposes to furnish uniqne designs for the arrange meats at weddings and to show blush ing brides how to advance gracefully to the altar She will devise ideas for chil- dren 8 parties, and she will invent new favors for ootillons She will furnish artists 10 sing, play, read or recite for the entertainment of guests and will undertake to think for the lady of the house regarding every detail about which the slightest concern might be felt Ia shee9, eho will take all care off the fostess' shoulders and enable her to mingio with her guests with q light heart.
 There is another branch of the bureau of social requirements which will tend to relieve the mistress ef many hand some home Of worry and responsibility. This department is described in the dainty little lavender pamphlet which tic bureau sends out as tie disman- tling and encouragement of houses. When family is to De absent from tho city during tho summon months CT wishes to put aside the ma4y articles that mako the indoor life Of winter % attractive the manager of the bureau will send wefkwemen and go herself to superintena the swathing of the fuT- niture in linen In the autumn il will be her province to take off tho wrap pings and restore the various articles to their places
 Another department that receives the bureaa's s attention is information on all points of social life ' Many subtle problems that are as q sealed book to the uninitiated will be made plain on appli- cation 10 tho manager. These include such questions as "How long q time should or should not elapse before pay ing a first eall23 and What should de- termine precedence ill the matter of seats at dinner?' Perhaps oven tho kinds of forks aud spoons to be used for certain courses may puzzle one who hos never paid inneh attention to such mat ters The bureau will solvo all such problems.
 What first suggested such busi- ness to you?" asked a reporter who found Miss Garrison duly installed at her desk.
 s'I have been doing this sort of thing uneonsciously all my life, '' was the re- ply. My friends have always come to me for ideas and suggestions when they wanted to decorate table prettily, got new hanrings for room. give a card party CT anything of the kind If aay one ill the family was 10 be married, my invention was taxed to get up something distinctive and new. either for the we'd ding raimcnt CT the fashion in which the ceremony should De conducted l have often bcsn called on to give q sag gestiun as tq tho color, material and style of making most likely 10 suit cer- tain of my friends who woro ill doubt as to new dress, and now that the time has come when 1 want to be self supporting, it seems to nc that 1 had best mike Q business of what had al ways been pleasure. l know more about texture and colors, house decara- tions, social forms and customs than know about anything else, so 1 have de- terlnined to mako niy capital of that.
 Miss Garrison is a sweet faced young woman, with the air and manner of person accustomed to mingle with the world. The oldest daughter in home where entertainments were frequently given, she learned i'll her fathers house the art of conducting social affairs grace. fully and succ ssfully, and on account of financial difficulties she now proposes l.. .1