they are past masters in the use of the chafing dish and those who
have feasted with them will no longer deem that liveried service and
stately rooms are necessary to the proper receiving of one's friends.

After all, "the highest hospitality is in giving what one has."
Hawthorne and his wife never forgot the little American studying art
in Rome, who, in her tower room, reached by many flights of stairs,
made tea before their eyes, and took from a cupboard the cake and
crackers that made her feast. Neither will the world forget her, since
she it was, who, in the "Marble Faun," is the Hulda who fed the doves
from the tower.

A Sandwich Spread.

A sandwich spread is another entertainment easily given by a "bachelor
maid." This is a meal at which everything, barring the tea and coffee,
is served in the form of a sandwich. Not until one has tried does one
realize to what excellence and variety this form of viand lends
itself. Deviled ham sandwiches, egg sandwiches, cheese sandwiches,
lettuce sandwiches, potted ham, potted fish, potted cheese sandwiches,
pineapple sandwiches, peanut sandwiches, cucumber sandwiches, tomato
sandwiches, walnut sandwiches, oyster sandwiches and so on
indefinitely. Any modern cookbook will furnish the formulas for all
these and more.

"He or she," says one writer, "who partakes, forgets the presence of
the folding bed and gas stove; of the curtained china cupboard in
friendly proximity to the writing desk or easel. There is no paint on
the artist's fingers, and the newspaper woman wears as pretty a gown
as any woman could wish."

Private Theatricals.

The etiquette of invitations is the same for Private Theatricals, as
for musicales. Simply substituting the word, "Theatricals,"
"Charades," or "Tableaux," whichever it is to be, in the left hand
corner of the card. The same observances as to arranging the seats,
toilettes of the guests, etc., are requisite, and performers should be
equally careful not to fail at the last moment in taking their part.
In reality they should be more so, since the failure of one performer
might ruin the entire play.

A drama entails more expense and care than characters and tableaux. A
host or hostess should never take leading part unless it be especially
urged upon them by the others, and even then it is not best, first,
because the entertainers should never eclipse their guests, and,
second, they should be free for a general oversight of the whole
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