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Requirements from 1920s "Scouting for Girls" SYMBOL-CUP AND SAUCER 1. Demonstrate receiving, introducing and bidding guests goodbye. 2. Write notes of invitation for a luncheon, dinner party, and write a letter inviting a friend to make a visit. 3. Give an out of door party or picnic planning entertainment, and 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.Category
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