The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-05-26
HINTS TO ENTERTAINERS.

Above all things, always know what
you are going to do with your guests.
Don't depend on standing around the
piano, and yelling the latest songs.
They could have done that without
getting dressed and coming to your
house.
Don't expect girls to feel comfort
able with hanging their wraps in the
hall, and going directly to the parlor.
They will be on 'spins and needles"
unless they are allowed to run up
stairs, peep into the mirror, and make
sure that their noses don't shine,
and that they are straight in the
back.
Don't work all day over the affair,
SO that you will look like The
Wreck of the Hesperus" just blown
in, by the time your guests arrive.
Practice keeping COOL" Nine
tenths Of the hostesses are so excit-
ed during an entertainment that no
matter what one says to them, they
fail to grasp the meaning.
Don't invite people who balk and
refuse to carry out your plans.
Don't think of inviting people who
imagine that your friends assemble
to hear what they have to say.
Your guests will go away feeling
that they have had a much better
time If your plans include little ac-
tivity, than If they are asked to sit
Ill
Don't forget to insist on your
father and mother coming into the
parlor They will be your most APP
preciative guests.
Don't let there be any wall-fowers.
Bring them forward. Your other
guests will need only slight jog
to stir up their gallantry.
Don't forget the ventilation. TWEEN
ty people in a couple Of small rooms
soon use up every atom of oxygen.
Many an excellent social affair has
been spoiled by stuffy, irritating
atmosphere.
Have pity on your friends diges-
ton Don't press ice cream, candy,
cakes, lemonade and freak merigunes
upon them. Chicken salad, bread fin
gers and coffee will strike happier
chord.
Bestow your best smile and most
graceful word at parting.-Wash1ng
ton Times.
BEAUTY A MATTER OF TASTE.
In the course Of desultory talk
at a London Club, one cynical mem
Der, referring to "beauty' man, said
solemnly: 81 think if had his golden
hair and peachy skin I should go to
Spain. Only black hair and sallow
skins there, so / should get prize IN
the marriage market"
There you are wrong" said an
other; "the Spaniards don't care for
the fair type of beauty"
The second man was right. In Nor
way and the districts of Germany
where the fair type is common, dark
beauty is detested. OF course, there
are exceptions to the rule, but it is
broadly true that dark races admire
the dark, and fair races admire the
fair.
Then one hears it said, and implied
when not stated in so many words,
that Cinnamon are ugly. They may
be to those who reside in Europe and
have their taste fixed by inheritance
and training. But it is quite possible
for any person who has lived in China
to undergo vast change in taste. The
yellow-skinned man has beauty of
his own, and when the man belongs
to al high race-for there are many
such races-his physical beauty may
be impressive. There are also we'll
built and handsome Cinnamon.
And so with the gentler sex. To I'M
derstand the matter one should con-
slider that true beauty is merely per
lection of type. There is the beauty
of the cat, the horse, the dog, and the
bird. One does not deem Persian
cat hideous because it does not re-
semble bull terrier.-Home Notes.
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