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prepare and serve refreshments, OR 
Demonstrate ability to plan for an indoor party, arranging the 
rooms, a place for wraps, entertainment of guests, serving of 
refreshments. 
4. Set a table and entertain guests for lunch or dinner or afternoon 
tea and demonstrate the duties of a hostess who has no maid, 
or one who has a maid, to serve. 
5. What are the duties of a hostess when entertaining a house 
guest for a few days or more? 
GUESTS: 
6. When entertained as a house guest what are some of the necessary 
things to be remembered? 
7. What is a “bread and butter” letter? Write one. 
8. When invited to a party, luncheon, dinner, or to make a visit, 
how should the invitations be acknowledged? Write at least 
two letters to cover the question. 
9. What are the duties of a caller, dinner or party guest as con- 
cerns time of arrival, length of stay and leaving?” 
REFERENCES : 
“Manners and Social Usage,” Sherwood ($1.25). 
“Dame Curtsey's Book of Novel Entertainments,” E. H. Glover, 
McClurg. 
“Hostess of Today,” L. H. Earned, Scribner. 
“Bright Ideas for Entertaining,” H. B. Einscott, Jacobs. 
INTERPRETER 
SYMBOL- 
UNITED STATES ARMY EMBLEM 
1. Show ability to converse in a language other than English. 
2. Translate quickly and accurately a conversation in a foreign 
language into English, and English into a foreign language. 
3. Be able to write a simple letter in a language other than one's 
own, subject to be given by examiner. 
4. Read a passage from a book or newspaper written in a language 
other than one's own. 
5. Write a clear intelligible letter in a foreign language. 
JOURNALIST**** 
SYMBOL — BOTTLE AND PEN 
1. Know how a newspaper is made, its different departments, 
functions of its staff, how the local news is gathered, how the 
news of the world is gathered and disseminated... Inquire at 
newspaper office. 
2. What is a news item? 
3. What is an editorial? 
4. Describe evolutions of typesetting from hand composition to 
