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    Entertaining Made Easy
    Entertaining Made Easy
    Entertaining Made Easy
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    Entertaining Made Easy

    By Emily Rose Burt

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Entertaining Made Easy - Emily Rose Burt

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Entertaining Made Easy, by Emily Rose Burt

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Entertaining Made Easy

      Author: Emily Rose Burt

      Release Date: April 3, 2004 [EBook #11883]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENTERTAINING MADE EASY ***

      Produced by Janet Kegg, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

      Made Easy Series

      ENTERTAINING MADE EASY

      BY

      EMILY ROSE BURT

      1919

      Acknowledgment is made to Woman's Home Companion, The Ladies' Home Journal, Farm and Fireside, and the Designer for their courteous permission to reprint certain material in this book.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      SOCIALS AND PARTIES A SMILES SOCIAL AN AVIATION MEET A MOCK CANTEEN A PROGRESSIVE MARCH PARTY AN AUTUMN LEAF DANCE A HARVEST HOME PARTY A NUTTY PARTY FOR OCTOBER A MAY POLE PARTY FOR CHILDREN

      OUTDOOR AFFAIRS A BACON BAT A CHILDREN'S DAISY PARTY A HAWAIIAN PORCH LUNCHEON A WATERMELON FROLIC A JAPANESE GARDEN PARTY A COMMENCEMENT PICNIC A PROGRESSIVE MOTOR PARTY

      BIRTHDAYS AND OTHER ANNIVERSARIES A BACHELOR SUPPER MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY TEA A PUSSY CAT PARTY A GIRL'S BIRTHDAY LUNCHEON THE WOODEN WEDDING THE TIN WEDDING A MOCK WEDDING A SILVER WEDDING SHOWER A CAPE COD LUNCHEON

      ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SHOWERS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME LUNCHEON A HAPPINESS TEA A HELLO PARTY AN APPLE SHOWER AN OLD ROSE SHOWER A KITTY SHOWER A CAMP FIRE SHOWER A ONE I LOVE SHOWER AN INDIAN SUMMER SHOWER A CHRISTMAS TREE SHOWER

      WEDDINGS

        SUMMER WEDDING DECORATIONS

        THE TABLE DECORATIONS

        MENUS FOR THE BUFFET LUNCHEON

        THE FAVORS

        TWO SUMMER WEDDINGS

          A Wild Rose Wedding

          A Field Flower Wedding

        OUTDOOR WEDDINGS

          An Orchard Pageant

          A Wedding on the Lawn

        FALL WEDDINGS

          A Blue and Gold Fall Wedding

          Oak Leaves and Cosmos

        THREE WINTER WEDDINGS

          A Christmas Wedding

          A Rainbow Wedding

          A Colonial Wedding

      INTRODUCTION

      It is fun to entertain—if you don't make hard work of it.

      And why make hard work of it when there are ways to entertain easily?

      Besides you know that the more easily you do it, the more successful you'll be, and there's hardly a woman in the world—is there?—who wouldn't like to be known as a good hostess.

      But, says one of you, I haven't the knack.

      And another says, I haven't the time or money.

      And yet another, Oh, I never have any ideas.

      Nonsense!

      It's not a question of knack or money or ideas. All you need is to know the secret, and it's an open secret at that!

      First, ask yourself what you mean by a successful hostess. Your answer will be, One whose guests have so good a time that they want to come again.

      Sure enough! The secret is out then—entertaining successfully is giving the guests a good time.

      More easily said than done, you say. "What must I do to give the guests a good time?"

      And the answer to that is in a nutshell. Make your entertainment fit the folks to be entertained.

      You wouldn't, for instance, think of inviting your grandmother's friends in of an afternoon in honor of the old lady's birthday and playing stagecoach or blindman's buff.

      And if you have your Sunday School class of lively boys in for the evening, you won't expect them to play paper and pencil games from eight to ten.

      It's really just a matter of common sense coupled with some imagination and forethought to choose the right kind of entertainment.

      Along with choosing the right variety of amusement, remember that folks generally like the simple things best and if there's a touch of originality in addition, you've won their hearts. For you see you've made them feel that you took the trouble to plan something different in their honor.

      Because it's different, it isn't necessarily hard to prepare—there are lots of novelties in decoration, amusement and eats that are perfectly simple and inexpensive. They are what help to make entertaining easy, in fact. And just at this point you see comes in the reason for the writing of this little book.

      It aims to make entertaining easy by suggesting plans that are simple and a little out-of-the-ordinary to fit the most frequent occasions when you wish to entertain or perhaps must do so. Special care has been taken to consider time and expense, but at the same time to bring in a touch of the unusual.

      Don't miss the fun of entertaining because you've always thought it hard work! This book has been prepared to show you how easily, after all, it can be done. And may you have the reward of joy and satisfaction that comes with successful hospitality!

      SOCIALS AND PARTIES

      Perhaps you're appointed chairman of the social committee of your young people's church society of or some club. Or maybe you want to entertain for a friend who is visiting you so that she may meet your circle of friends. Anyway it's up to you to plan an evening's amusement for a big crowd of people. If it's a mixed crowd—young and old and in-between (as church socials often are)—you need one kind of plan; if it's a bunch of young folks, or a school class party, or something for the children, you need other plans.

      But the secret of all good times for big crowds is to choose entertainment that draws the individuals together in some kind of comradeship, gives them all something in common, and puts them on a friendly footing.

      A SMILES SOCIAL

      On the door of the parish house as well as in the post-office window appeared a poster adorned with a big smiling face—the kind made by drawing a circle and putting inside of it two eye dots, a nose line, and a cheerful curve for a mouth.

      Beneath it the invitation urged everybody to come to a Smiles Social, wearing a smile and bringing an extra one in the pocket. Admission, one smile.

      The parish house parlors were decorated with all the laughing or smiling pictures that could be found by the committee in charge. Mona Lisa was there with her inscrutable smile, The Laughing Cavalier, as well as less famous characters, such as smiling girls on calendars and magazine covers. An amusing display of newspaper cartoons also filled one portion of the wall space. Smilax was appropriately enough used for trimming.

      At the door was stationed a smiling admission collector, who insisted

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