GUESTS IN THE HOME
Suggestions About Behaviour
"Guestmanship,” or rules for house guests, needs to be known if return visits are welcomed, writes a Toronto correspondent. Here are a few suggestions. Get your plans clear in advance. If your host sounds vague about the week-end programme, ask him what sports, equipment and wardrobe you will need.
Don't ask him who else has been invited, or offer to help round out his list with five or six of your friends. This includes your lovable old dog. unless he has been approved beforehand.
If you are on a diet, explain about it beforehand—it is not good taste to complain once the meals have been prepared. Take the telephone number of your destination and use it if you get hopelessly lost. Unless told otherwise, don’t telephone to say you are at the station and want to be picked up. If your host hasn’t provided transport, find your own way to his home. Bring a modest present as an "ice-breaker.” Easiest, and in the best of taste, is something like flowers which the whole family can enjoy.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29511, 12 May 1961, Page 2
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