lowers in a vase, give a personal touch that
bespeaks the hostess's solicitude for the pleasure of her friend.

There is no more delicious flattery than that of having one's personal
tastes remembered and recognized.

The Visitor's Entertainment.--The entertainment of a guest is, of course,
dependent on the hostess's means, mode of life, social standing, the
season of the year, and whether one lives in town or in the country.

She will ask some of her friends to call on her guest; she will give a
little entertainment for her, at cards, or a tea, or a reception,
according to circumstances. No doubt her friends will include her visitor
in their invitations during her stay. She will take her friend to see the
sights of her home city if she is a stranger; she may give a theatre
party, or at least take her friend several times. She will pay her guest's
carfare, unless the other anticipates her, and pay for the theatre
tickets. It will be perfectly correct for the guest to "stand treat" by
inviting her host and hostess to accompany her to concert or play, paying
for the seats herself.

The Hostess's Invitations.--It often happens that a hostess has
invitations not extended to her visitor. She may have accepted; before her
guest's arrival, an invitation to dinner, card party or luncheon. In
neither of these may she ask to have her guests included. They are formal
functions for which arrangements are made long in advance. She may say to
an intimate friend who is giving a musical or an "At home" or any informal
affair, that she has a visitor staying with her, and the friend will no
doubt extend an invitation to the latter. It is proper for host and
hostess to accept invitations in which a guest is not included if they
make some provision for her pleasure during their absence.

She may be asked to invite some friend to dine with her, or someone
provided to take her to the theatre. Nor has she a right to feel affronted
at being left at home.

One thing must be carefully avoided, the hostess must not let her guest
feel, for one moment, that she is the cause of inconvenience or trouble.
Even if she is, the fact must be sedulously concealed. Bear with the
annoyance until the visit ceases; then do not invite her again. It is the
hostess's privilege to invite; having invited she must not allow her
equanimity to be disturbed.

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THE OBLIGATIONS OF A GUEST.

If it is the duty of the hostess t