The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-22
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The Successful Hostess.

You may have a dinner with the
best appointment and cuisine, and if
your guests arc badly chosen the dim
ner will be n social failure.
Certain elements will not coalesce.
and the oma who tries to force the
process is counting an explosion.
Choose guests as you would shoes
because they fit.
You may b" catholic in your taste
and enjoy the butterfly without a
brain and the who is all brain
without social grace. the artist or
musician, tho snob who distrusts all
the clever cotorir. the nan who loves
a gay story. and the IN who is
easily shocked.
But gather those friends around a
common board and o may II on
their boredom.
If YOU must have a mixed dinner.
pray for tact in The seating. "A man
cares what he cats: Il Woman cares
whom she sits next"
Never scat your guests according to
social position. The practice makes
neither the dinner nor the hostess
popular. If You put the socially UNI
important together. your entertaining
will never be a success.
Custom has it that those who sit
on the right and left of the host and
hostess may feel themselves singled
cut for attention-but choose for
reasons. DO not give your guests a
chance to Gibe at you as a money
worshippcr or one with an AK to grind.
Do not have dinners so large as to
prevent general conversation. Not all
who go out to dinners are blessed with
and the hostess should have
it in her power to go to the rescue
of the guest who is neglected by her
~neighbors.
Nor should ynur dinners he long OF
heavy. The dav of dozens of course.
is past, the most brilliant diner-out
finds it hard to shine when eating
through an evnr-elaborate menu.
Learn the art of switching the con-
versation. Nanv a diner is wrecked
because the hostess does not know
hoW t. stop an argument that Is vers-
ing on controversy. and has not the
social sense to scent dangerous topics
or sidetrack the bore.
Encourage brilliancy and gayety.
but keep a shar" watch for Wit that
stings and jokes that tend to license.
Green Pea Salad.
One pint Of cooked young peas. a
firm head of lettuce. two-thirds of a
pound of cold fowl. free from skin
and bones. and salad dressing. Have
the peas ready and drain them on a
sieve to cool. Wash and we'll drain
the lettuce, pull the leaves apart and
break them into convenient pieces,
and arrange them in a salad bowl.
Chop the fowl rather coarsely; spread
this owe the top OF the lettuce. and
then arrange the peas neatly on top
Prepare a plain salad dressing, using
vinegar. salt, pepper, oil. and chopped
parsley for the purpose; pour over
the salad n serve. a sprig of mint
boiled with the peas is a decided i'm
provement to the flavor of this salad.
In place of cold fowl, cold lean lamb
or veal may be used. or, if preferred,
meat can be left out altogether. In
stead of plain salad dressing, mayon-
naise or mayonnaise cream is fire.
quently used, and is found an i'm
pruvemcnt by many.
Try an Occupation party" but ask
only guests who will enter into the
scheme heartily. IT is the ~jolliest of
fun. Ask each one to come wearing
son1e article or dressed to represent
an occupation. There will. Of course,
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