TO GIVE A GARDEN PARTY 
ELIZABETH HAMM 
This Old-fashioned Form of Entertainment Has Completed its Cycle and Come 
Again from Obscurity into High Favor Along With the General Garden Awakening 
ALL parties, a garden party will make the least de- 
mands upon a hostess — or a host — provided of course 
mj /fl there is that first essential, the garden. The spirit of 
hospitality in the enchanting setting of a summer 
afternoon, with flowers and sunshine, blue sky and trees and 
shade and birds and bees, obviates at least seventy-five per cent, 
of the small details that indoor entertaining presents; and in 
addition, guests are certain to come expectant and prepared to 
have a good time — which pretty certainly discounts all other 
difficulties and perplexities that the gathering together of any 
considerable number of people is likely to develop. 
Every garden has of course its special features and its maxi- 
mum period of loveliness — its zenith of beauty. Choose 
this time, if possible. And then definitely make your invitations 
conditional, covering a second day if the first should be rainy. 
Where this is done you are as certain of success as any one can 
be of anything on this mundane sphere. 
For convenience in serving, place those drinkables requiring 
to be kept hot at tables on the porches or a terrace, where they 
may be sheltered from the breeze — unless you have electric at- 
tachments for providing the heat beneath them, and can run 
connections to arbor, tent or summer-house as you choose. 
Iced drinks do not of course demand this coddling; it is always 
well indeed to have these at a point as remote from the house as 
possible. Do not fail to provide at both places water “as it 
comes from the spring’’ free from any disguises, additions or 
“inducements.” People not infrequently suffer for a drink of 
plain water where other drinks are more than abundant. 
I N ADDITION to the tea, coffee, and chocolate and the lemon- 
ade, punch and, spring-water “centres,” set out several small 
tables on an east lawn, if possible (for there the shadows lie in 
the afternoon), where the less active guests may sit and be 
served by half a dozen of the prettiest very young girls that 
you know. Actually I would advise going even further than 
this by establishing a similar rendezvous in a warm and shel- 
tered corner, in the event of its turning cool in the late after- 
noon. There are people too, especially among the older group, 
to whom sunlight is more welcome than shade, except in the very 
hottest weather and the hottest part of the day. Don’t forget 
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NIGHT-TIME OR DAY-TIME A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN IS THE SETTING FOR BRILLIANT AND DELIGHTFUL GROUPS 
Whether it is coffee after dinner in the slanting sunlight of a daylight-saving evening, or afternoon tea, or a gala night of Japanese lanterns, 
fancy dress and perhaps mask and carnival, no spot can vie with the garden for all that goes to make such affairs a complete success 
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