By Reggie Darling
I have something that I would like to share with you, Dear Reader, that I think you will enjoy. It is a book that was recently given to me, and which now sits firmly ensconced in the pantheon of my entertaining library at Darlington House.
Called These Entertaining People: A Guide for the Elegant Hostess, it was written by Florence Pritchett Smith, also known as Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, and was published by Macmillan in 1965. It is a delightful, information-packed guide to entertaining and to life exquisitely lived along the New York/Southampton/Palm Beach axis back when people still dressed for dinner and when society columns still appeared in newspapers. In other words, before all Hell broke loose.
It's really rather delicious.
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