Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . d, would be :< Coffee Chat or Gos-sip. The entertainment is of German origin,and was adopted to fit the fiction that thestronger sex, of whom the lateness of the hourcaptures many a willing or unwilling victim, do notrevel in tea. Chocolataire. This is rather a new entertainment. Its novelty lies in the factthat the beverage served is chocolate, and that chocolate enters intoall the refreshments served, such as chocolate wafers, etc. A chocolate lem
Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . d, would be :< Coffee Chat or Gos-sip. The entertainment is of German origin,and was adopted to fit the fiction that thestronger sex, of whom the lateness of the hourcaptures many a willing or unwilling victim, do notrevel in tea. Chocolataire. This is rather a new entertainment. Its novelty lies in the factthat the beverage served is chocolate, and that chocolate enters intoall the refreshments served, such as chocolate wafers, etc. A chocolate lemonade will be a nice addition in hot weather, chocolate bon-bons being passed in dainty silver bon-bon baskets. The cards are the same as for Teas and Coffees, simply sub-stituting the word Chocolataire or Chocolate in the left handcorner. If this is used, as it sometimes is, for a church or charitable enter-tainment, cards are not issued, but it is simply announced through theusual channels as a Chocolataire, and numerous other refreshmentsall containing chocolate in some form can be dispensed, chocolate icecream, chocolate cake, etc296. MISCELLANEOUS ENTERTAINMENTS. 297 Theater parties may be made into very elaborate entertainments, orthey may be simple and quietly arranged. Ladies and families oftengive these parties as an easy method of repaying their social debts. But the theater party is the entertainment, par excellence, dear tobachelor hosts, especially those who have no homes of their own towhich they may invite guests, and wish to return some of the manycourteous hospitalities of which they have been the recipients. In one of these elaborate affairs the host first secures some popularlady to chaperon the party. Then he calls upon his florist, makesarrangements with some famous restaurant and pays a visit to thebox-office of some theater where a new play is to be brought out inten days or two weeks. Invitations for Theater Parties. He then gives the invitations in pers
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