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A handbook of hospitality for town and country / by Florence Howe Hall.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating BJ2021 .H3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Florence Howe, 1845-1922.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Etiquette.
- Entertaining.
- Physical Description:
- 312 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : D. Estes & company, [1909]
- Contents:
- The country hostess and her problems
- Picnics and country frolics
- Country weddings
- House-parties, guests and guest-chambers
- Unexpected visitors
- The flat-dweller and her difficulties
- Afternoon teas and receptions
- Luncheons
- How to give an agreeable dinner
- The day of the dinner
- Dances
- Twentieth century costume dances and masked balls
- Musicals and private theatricals
- Card parties
- Studio teas and bachelor entertainments
- Class-day and commencement festivities
- Women's clubs
- Hints for club festivities
- Novel ideas for patriotic entertainments
- Progressive dinners, barmecide's feasts, magic supplies, and other novelties
- The stranger within our gates
- Hospitality in modern Europe
- Outgrown ideals of hospitality.
- Local Notes:
- Bound in green cloth with design of a house among trees and the title in white letters surrounded by a gate.
- OCLC:
- 505128
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