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Title: Our society
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Ives, Alice Emma Beecher, Henry Ward, Mrs., 1813-1897 Williams, Cora May. (from old catalog) Foley, John Samuel, Bishop, 1833- (from old catalog) Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth, 1846-1918
Subjects: Etiquette Physical education and training
Publisher: Detroit, Mich., Darling brothers & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, if the hostess has tact and the weather is propi-tious. The out-door sense of freedom, the games, and thevarious objects in nature which suggest conversation andamusement, are all elements of pleasure not to be found undera roof. A garden-party may be described as a full dress, out-door,five-oclock tea, says the author of The London Season;but, being disposed to take a melancholy view of such festiv-ties, he goes on to say that no Englishman is really at hisease at an out-door entertainment, in the daytime, that isunconnected with any sport. At a garden-party the least shyman has a sense of being placed en evidence in his best clothes,in the light of the sun. * * * The only persons who reallyenjoy these fetes are frisky matrons7 and engaged couples.But he adds: In spite of the melancholy that prevails at agarden-party, it is a pretty sight on a fine afternoon, and aforeigner attending one at Holland House, for instance, wouldprobably rank it as the pleasantest entertainment that the
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SOIR&ES, MATIN&ES AND MUSICALS. 91 season affords. The bright dresses moving in the picturesquegarden, the old house in the background, and the old associa-tions behind it, produce a brighter and more lasting impres-sion on the mind than the hurry and glitter of most of ourfashionable arrangements. Invitations to a Gar den-Party.—When the party is givenat a country house to which the majority of the guests willhave to go by rail or some public conveyance, a card shouldbe enclosed, stating the arrangements made for meetingguests by train. Invitations should be engraved or printedon plain note-paper in this, or a similar form: Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Gordon request the pleasure of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar BartWs company on Wednesday*, July tenth, at four oclock, GARDEN-PARTY. CARLETON, MASSACHUSETTS. The enclosed card may be worded in this form: Carriages will meet the 3.20 train from East Branch Station. If still more explicit directions are necessary, they shouldbe given. These invita

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