Editor and Publisher of What To Eat , the National Food Magazine. Superintendent of Food Exhibits at the St. Louis World's Fair. Honorary Commissioner of Foods at the Jamestown Exposition. Copyrighted 1907 by PAUL PIERCE. Respectfully dedicated to the overworked, perturbed American hostess in the sincere hope that the suggestions herein may lighten her perplexities and transform her work of entertaining from a task of dread to one of delight. This little book is the first of a series containing

Three things are required to give an enjoyable dinner party; good taste, good judgment and an intuitive sense of harmony. Good taste suggests the proper thing in table dressing, in menu cards, in viands and beverages. Good judgment dictates the fortunate time, the appropriate guests, the seasonable dishes and topics; and last, a sense of harmony is the quality that throws a glamour over all, combining pleasant parts in one symmetrical whole, making a picture "distinct like the billows, but one l

16 Overton Street, January 2. The invitation should be addressed to the lady invited as "Mrs. George W. Jones." 268 West Avenue, January 3. Address envelope to "Mrs. Reuben Brown." These are for formal dinners. If the dinner is an informal affair, a simple note addressed to the wife, asking her and her husband to dine is sufficient. When the guests have arrived the servant in charge should announce the dinner to the lady of the house. The host takes the lady who is to sit at his right, and leads

Here is a Valentine luncheon for young girls suggesting the "Sweet Sixteen" idea in a novel and beautiful manner. Spun sugar should be used exclusively in most of the table decorations. Have a round table set in pure white and crystal, the latest fad. At each girl's plate have a flower done in candy in a realistic manner. On each side of the table have small, red heart-shaped candy baskets filled with red candy hearts. Imitation baskets of rock candy tied with bows of candy ribbons holding prese

A dinner always stands a better chance of being a success if there is some little thing to break the ice at the start. A little verse might be placed on the card bearing the name of each guest. A particularly lively and cheerful young woman might have a verse something like this:— "Fevers are contagious, But they're not by half As quickly, surely catching As Mrs. Thompson's laugh." A lady who gives much thought and attention to political reforms might have the following:— "Dogs have their days,

One's dinner should be distinguished by that elusive element of informality, which tactfully introduced, is the making of a dinner, in quite the same proportion that its ineffectual simulation is the marring of the feast. The housewife has many emergencies to face. How to work out of difficulties never met with before taxes all of her ingenuity. She must not allow her perplexity to appear if she is dealing with children or servants, as that would cause them to lose faith in her infallible wisdom