The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-26
WEEKEND PARTY FAD
FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT THAT
PLEASES GUESTS AND HOSTESS
Gives Both a Freedom Which Would
Be Impossible Under Any Other
Form of Hospitality and Makes Visits
to Country Agreeable and Restful.

OF the many social customs trans
planted from English to American
shores, none appeals so strongly to the
hostess of moderate means as does the
weekend house party.
The duties of the week end hostess
are most simple, if she only realized it.
She arranges her parties with infinite
tact, knowing that success will depend
more upon the good comradeship of
her guests than upon her own efforts
to provide entertainment. Overenter-
tanning or business on the part of the
hostess is fatal to a house party. 1t
should be marked by restfulness and
freedom from conStraint Friday to
Monday guests rather enjoy being left
to themselves part of the time, any
are only too glad to follow their own
devices in the country.
II Mrs. Suburbanite is wise she
Will follow this plan. Her gust rooms
VIII De as large, airy and daintily fur
nished as her purse affords She will
give more attention to her porch fur
nishings in summer than to thin drap-
cries for her drawing room. The weary
cityite, whose first glimpse of his
hosts homes takes in a veranda scat
tered with easy chairs and cushions,
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ice and the new magazines, a ham
mock, cosy corners and arbors in the
garden, feels that he is doubIy well
come. What is but a part of his
hostess everyday life forms the nov
city for the guest. News that the
country club has opened up golf links
is more interesting and pleasing than
the announcement that other subur-
banites are to join the party for pro-
gressive euchre or bridge in the even
ing. Anything more formal than an
impromptu dance at the country club
is really in bad taste.
Where guests arrive on Friday there
is generally some such informal enter
tanning as a dance at the club house.
In case guests do not arrive before
Saturday the party is tolerably sure of
finding ample and congenial entertain
ment within its own ranks, riding and
driving If the host has horses, the early
Sunday tramp over 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, indoors, with music
and cards and all that the house party
fiend wants or expects.
the guest who is Joining her first
house party should give considerable
thought to the clothes she will take
with her. If the host and hostess are
known to go in for athletic sports she
will prepare accordingly. If she plays
golf she takes her own sticks, or if 1t
is tennis, her own racket. If the home
is on the water front and sailing will
be in order she takes her thick veil,
her sweater or her REFER. The over
dressed girl is distinctly out of place
in a house party whose members go in
heavily for sports. If there are horses
and she rides she will, of course, need
her habit.
The travelling gown is important no
matter how short the trip. Last sum-
mer a Stamford hostess was astonish-
ed and annoyed to receive among her
guests at the depot a young girl (who,
by the way, ought to have known bet
ter) arrayed in lace trimmed dimity
and a picture hat fit only for garden
party.
Last, but not least, the finicky girl,
the moody girl, the girl who never
feels quite sure that she wants to do
what the others like, should stay away
from the house party, unless she ex-
poets to be placed on her hostess black
list forever. The house party Is no
place for the whimsical, capricious girl,
but the wholesome, fun-loving, tactful
girl is always in demand for the week.
end functions.