Excerpt from Hospitality in Town and Country: With Usages, Formal and Informal To propose attending prayers without at least an im plied permission would be an intrusion. A request for invitation to such/ sacred services should never be made. It would be an indelicacy, since each person's religion, and its mode of expression, is personal, and it ought to be allowed strict privacy, if preferred. According to the ages and aptitudes of guests at a house-party are their diversions planned. Riding and driving, visiting museums and places of amusement, are the easiest of entertainments to provide, if the host is a person of fortune, which, of course, a house-party presupposes. Whatever is enjoyed by his guests is supplied by him. He purchases admission to what ever is to be seen or enjoyed, and he also provides horses for his guests, unless, as not infrequently hap pens, a woman has a favorite saddle-horse which she has been asked to send to her host's stable. Her groom accompanies the same, and may, if desired, bring his own animal. This style of entertaining is, and must always be, for the few. It is mentioned here only because that few is growing in numbers and in luxury, and it is as common already in America as it is in England. Grow ing wealth is eagerly inquiring how inherited riches are and have been expending their fortunes, that they may do likewise, or perhaps better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.