The Art of Entertaining
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The Art of Entertaining is by M. E. W. Sherwood and is dedicated to the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. The preface says that in America the art of entertaining, as compared with the same art in England, in France, in Italy and in Germany, may be said to be in its infancy.
The text asks, "What is good taste but an instantaneous, ready appreciation of the fitness of things?" The text asks who does not remember the failure of that first dinner-party, when the baby began to cry so loud and when the hostess was not dressed when the bell rang. The text says that Christmas evergreens and red berries make the most effective interior decorations, and that before Twelfth Night, January 6, they must all be taken down.
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- M. E. W. Sherwood
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