"More easily said than done," you say. "What must I _do_ to give the
guests a good time?"

And the answer to that is in a nutshell. "Make your entertainment fit
the folks to be entertained."

You wouldn't, for instance, think of inviting your grandmother's
friends in of an afternoon in honor of the old lady's birthday and
playing stagecoach or blindman's buff.

And if you have your Sunday School class of lively boys in for the
evening, you won't expect them to play paper and pencil games from
eight to ten.

It's really just a matter of common sense coupled with some
imagination and forethought to choose the right kind of entertainment.

Along with choosing the right variety of amusement, remember that
folks generally like the simple things best and if there's a touch of
originality in addition, you've won their hearts. For you see you've
made them feel that you took the trouble to plan something "different"
in their honor.

Because it's different, it isn't necessarily hard to prepare--there
are lots of novelties in decoration, amusement and "eats" that
are perfectly simple and inexpensive. They are what help to make
entertaining easy, in fact. And just at this point you see comes in
the reason for the writing of this little book.

It aims to make entertaining easy by suggesting plans that are simple