How To Have Company

It is not so very hard to havt a litóle company to tea or to spend theevening, if one only knows how t plan her work and does not attempt to crowd too much in one day. If the cake is made the day before it will be fresh enougb, and if you are so unfortunate as not to be entirely successful in making or baking, you will have plenty of time to remedy this trouble by trying again. If salad is to be part of the supper, the chicken may be prepared in the morning, and then late in the afternoon the dressing may be prepared and the salad mixed. When it is in the dish and ready for the table, wet a clean cloth in vinegar and lay over the top ; this will keep it moist, and it will not lose it; flavor by standing. If you are to have! sandwiches, they may be buttered earlj; and a damp cloth laid over them. Have the dishes and silver ready, and put in a eonvenient place where you can get them with no delay and trouble of counting. Silver may be rnbbed, and tablecloth and napkins laid aside days before. Above all. after having done these things do not worry ; think over all the times yon have been to tea aiáí you will hardly be able to recall a siagle: time where everything went very badily. Avoid confusión; if anyoneisto help you, be they servant or friend, let her distinctly understaDd what her duty is to be, so that you will not interfere with each other. A few experimenta will convince you of the good sense of these directions.