TO GREET YOUR GUESTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20851, 18 April 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

TO GREET YOUR GUESTS.

TINY LUXURIES. After staying lately in the particularly well-appointed country house of a woman who is well-known for her delightful hospitality, I was surprised to find that the things I noticed, and which made me feel, not only at home, but welcome, were all tiny details which the most hard-up hostess could copy, writes ar Londoner.

For instance, the point which chiefly impressed me about tho bathroom was not the constant hot water, nor the unlimited supply of delicious bath salts, but the fact that there was always a freshly-cut lemon on tho elaborately fitted wash-basin.

Similarly, tho hangers and shoe-trees (quite an inexpensive kind), which lurked within its capacious depths were quite the most satisfying feature of my roomy wardrobe, and tho satin fineness of the linen sheets was made doubly pleasant by the lavender bag tucked under the pillow. Last of all, the morning tea-tray did not appear as a matter of course, so that the unappreciative guest was confronted with the necessity of either drinking tea she did cot want, or of concealing tho fact that she had nob done so from an observant housemaid, but only arrived after inquiry as to one's tastes in this direction.

And its lazy luxury was immensely enhanced by the jug of boiling water on the tray an addition, incidentally, which is apparently no more contemplated by the makers of early morning tea services than it is by the average hostess!