Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-07


practically to the hostess Of moderate
means as does the weekend house
party.
Each year shows a marked increase
in the number Of families without
children who keep their town apart
ments open the year round. Women
have learned that the city, with its
large, cool rooms, is distinct i'm
provement over the summer resort,
with its oisy modes of entertainment.
its eternal round of dressing and its
stuffv incommodious rooms. Many
a wife who could amply afford to
spend the entire heated term out OF
the city. will remain this year To
share with her husband the pleasures
of summer evenings in town, which,
by the way, are not to be despised
To these couples in particular an
invitation for a weekend house party
will prove most welcome.
The duties of the weekend hostess
are most simple. if she only realized
it. She arranges her parties with in
finite tact knowing that success will
depend more upon the good COM
radeship of her guests than upon her
own efforts to provide entertainments.
Over entertaining or fussiness on the
part of the hostess is fatal to a house
party 1t should be marked by rest
fulness and freedom from constraint.
Friday to Monday guests rather en-
JOY being left to themselves part of
of the time, and are only too glad to
follow their own devices in the coun
try.
The house parties given by the
George Goulds at Georgian Court are
a notable example of this principle
Their beautiful home, their luxurious
grounds, the pleasures and amuse
ments of their family are placed at
the disposal of the weekend guest.
but no set form of entertainment no
formal functions are provided. Yet of
all the invitations issued by the smart
set. none are more eagerly sought than
those which come from Georgian
Court.
If Mrs. Suburbanite is wise she will
follow the same plan. Her guest
rooms will be as large airy and daint-
lily furnished as her purse affords. She
will give more attention to her porch
furnishings in summer than to thin
draperies fer her drawing room. The
weary cityite. whose first glimpse o.
his hosts home takes in a veranda
scattered with easy chairs and cush-
ions, a wicker table for the afternoon
tea service and the new magazines,
a hammock cosey corners and arbors
in the garden, feels that he is doubly
welcome. What is but part or his
hostess everyday life forms the nov
city for the guest. News that the
is more interesting and pleasing than
the announcement that other subur-
banites are to join the party for pro-
gressive eucher or bridge in the even
ing. Anything more formal than an
impromptu dance at the country clah
is really in lad taste. And the nos
tess who has any regard for the spine
nerves and temper of her guests VIII
eschew the straw ride. Hayracks
still possess fascination Tor the
very young set of society. The oider
guests prefer less strenuous methods
of entertainment. A porch dimly
lighted by Japanese lanterns. plenty
of pretty girls. someone who can
thrum a banjo cooling drinks-thls
represents comfort,
Where guests arrive on FRIDAY
there is generally some such informal
entertaining as dance at the cur
house. In case guests do not arrive
before Saturday the party is tole"a
bly sure of finding ample and con
genial entertainment within It's Owl
ranks. riding and driving if the hos
has horses the early morning tramp
oyer the hills or through the woods
the rest Of the day on the links or the
tennis court, the evenings on the dim
breezy porch, or, in case of storm IN
doors, with music and cards ana al