Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Simple Hospitality the Best. [ARTICLE]

Simple Hospitality the Best.

Obvious effort in the way of entertaining is considered bad form in the best houses. Any eccentricity in table decoration or studied effects are, therefcre, to be avoided. The finest of damask, the best of cutlery, the most brilliantly polished silver and glass, and choice flowers in greater or less profusion, according to the character of the entertainment, are deemed all-sufficient by those who are in the habit of jeceiving their world constantly and as a matter of courpa “New people,” who are not only willing but eager to go to any amount of trouble and expense in the way of commending themselves to society, not infrequently overreach themselves and begin all wrong (a fatal mistake, by the waj; as to begin right is all important) through a want of perception and too n.uch effort. “Mrs. Outeredge will never get on,” was the verdict pronounced by a social magnate on a socially ambitious woman of her acquaintance. “I lunched there yesterday and everything was most offensively rich and studied—twenty people at the table —gold-threaded damask —a present with each bunch of flowers —and even to the eatables, everything was a surprise. It was wearisome and all a mistake. I really felt like telling her to.”—New York Tribune.