Happy Friday! Let’s share another laugh and a look back at one of my favorite findings from my vast library of vintage resources. Each week, I’ll post amusing advertisements, articles or advice, spanning the topics of domestic arts, fashion, beauty and more. If it’s weird, witty or wacky, you’ll see it here.
Today’s advice comes from an installment of “The Charming Woman” — a 12 booklet course published in 1950, with a simple goal:
to help you get more out of life: more happiness, more success, more buoyant joy, and the complete fulfillment of your every aspiration in social and business life, in love and marriage!
See? No problem!
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Here’s some advice when you’re playing hostess:
The perfect hostess gives the impression that she is delighted to see her guests. Her attitude is one of happy enthusiasm which must on no account slop over into gushiness. That is the first rule.
But for all the attention spent on keeping oneself poised, serene, and enthusiastic towards guests, what to do when an accident happens?
“The good hostess does not bat an eye when coffee is spilled on her best table cloth, a priceless tea cup broken, or a crystal goblet drops to the floor. She laughs it off and she has to do so genuinely, or awkwardness will ensue. There is no point in her following that ancient tradition that she too must break or spill something so as to make the guest feel less guilty.”
I happen to be hosting a dinner this weekend myself good thing I found this passage in time! Have a happy Easter holiday weekend, especially if you’re playing hostess too!
Check back for more quirky quotes and images each week (and find more of these timeworn tips in my book Vintage Notions)!
