Those people blessed with the stiner: for sharing their hearth and home with others need never worry about the quality of their fare or chicness of their entertainment, genuines of their welcome more compensates for any material shortcomings. Their unfeigned joy in having their friends about them contagious, and the effervescence ig more than champagne. We all Know such people and their invita fons are cagerly accepted, Then there is the conscientious hostess, She i just as fond of her friends us the first type, but she worries about them more. She has preliminary qualms as ty' whom ¢he ought to Invite, who will feel slighted to be omitted, and most of all who will be congenial. The—seating of her guests at table ix to her ay complicated as the most intricate eross-word puzzle and the menu is 'a matter of earnest thought. This is hard on the hostess but it might be charged off to unavoidable profit and loss in temperament, if it were not that it intrudes itself into the foceasion itself, She is #0 patently ranxjous that all her guests should be happy that the enjoyment is. falmos: sure to be forced. She will rise above the crash of broken china; but she will fuss about drafts, comfortable or uncomfortable chairs, proper topies of conversation und favourite flavours, The Casual Hostess Then there is the directly opposite type who seems to have selected her guests by opening the telephone book fat random and calling up whichever names her blind finger lights upon. This leads to some pleasant inw acquaintances, to be sure, bat it also Teads to many an hour wasted in vainly secking common topies of Interest," The menus of these entertainments depend Inrgely upon the feonvenience of the cook, who is doubtless commissioned to prepare company fare for 0 many people. Perhaps the hostess forgets to tell hhim.until an hour oF two beforehand that four more people are coming; Dut that makes. little difference, except to the guests, One thing to be said for this sort of hostess is that she does no! commit the fault of ing. She has no fixed prowr brilliant dinner conversation, lighten ing into repartee at coffee, followed by Bridge or Mah-jong for every body afterwards. She lets the even ing take its course and fand determine guests ray do much with it But the boldest und bravest hostess of all is she who entertain: on China New Year dates. How she dares to do it the more timid wandler. Does she bribe or coerce? Max she any certainty that the staff will be fon hand with any degree of of. dency? Muskee that, her invita. tions are accepted with glee and lation and one more meal is assured in these vicissitudinous times. jeseapable duty towards these aron munity, She," hax an in-Jon its employees. As Hood wrote her. She fs bound up in the come long ago in "The Song of the' Shi reasonable patrons just ax there a It is not lien you're wearing out, mon welfare. She' will suffer with But human creatures' lives! the rest of the community if she a The idea that women work for pin sists or allows the lowering of stand-money and that employers Jards. In her shopping, therefore, [humane.o allow them a pleasant op. she will naturally favour the store Portunity of westing their leisure which has the highest code of bu fine has long ago gone by the boards ness morality, noe only in raga rect to ite treathient of the Peon [The woman who has to work in who sell them. No woman would wage. The woman who takes knowingly purchase sweatshop pro-vantage of economic necessity to ducts. Shanghai women are gala jeare bargains offered at the expense? ly taking up the straggle for Chin-Jef underpaid employees pays far too ese children's rights s0 we may de-dearly. pend upon them to encourage. the hops where the conditions for employees are the best in salaries, hours, sanitation and general con: The Creation sideration.
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