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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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November, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 407
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Two ways of serving canned asparagus. Photographs by Mary H. Northend burden the whole family with the change. The right feel- ing toward the expected guest will not allow you to em- barrass her by making such preparations too evident. After all, it is the spirit of hospitality we must seek for and develop. With this spirit, all effort becomes a joy, and wisdom seems to be given the hostess to guide her way, making her home a refuge for tired souls, and also a place for the young to enjoy. The hostess should be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. She must learn to gage her guest's qualities, for this business of entertaining is one which calls for the knowl- edge of human nature as well as love for it. She should be watchful of these transient members of her family, quick to show sympathy when needed, and ready for the confi- dence sure to be realized from these fine acts of attention. She should follow the example of the Orientals, "who have trained into gentleness every tone and gesture, every expression of the face, till they have by the light of courtesy illumined their own lives, and show their kindly na- ture to even the smallest and lowest of God's crea- tures." Surely this is an ideal to work for, and mothers have much re- sponsibility in the exam- ple they set to their grow- ing children, for too few reach out the strong hand and greet with courteous kindness the shy and dif- fedent stranger, whether under their own roof or away from home. Then, too, she must not think that she is the per- fect hostess because she waits upon a guest by in- ches. I have in mind a home, an hour's ride from Boston which was the gathering place of old and young for many years. The home family numbered six, and there was only one maid kept. There was never a Friday or Saturday that there was not a jolly crowd of week-enders, and Sunday seldom saw fewer than a dozen at the table. They were a changing crowd, these happy week-enders, as various in kind as human beings generally are. But they all fell in line and helped to do the work. The girls did the chamber work, while the boys helped gather the vege- tables, and even the lazy ones, by force of example and the whirl of good feeling, did their share. Boys and girls, men A NOVEL WAY OF SERVING FRUIT By MARY H. NORTHEND

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