l possess not one atom of interest. Before their horrified
eyes will gleam a thousand unsolvable difficulties, and an attempt to
successfully evade them might engulf them still further, so this appeal
for the much maligned "tenement" of the day is to some bright little
woman whose very touch transforms and whose ready brain devises with
unerring accuracy.

First; it is not to be supposed, if you are dwelling in a modern
apartment, that your wealth is unlimited, your resources illimitable and
just for that very reason your fertile brain has far more opportunity to
exercise its originality than if you merely telephoned "covers for
twelve" to some fashionable caterer, stepped into an evening gown held
by an obsequious maid, and exhibited your jewels at the head of your
well appointed table, conscious (if not troubled) by the fact that this
same man was turning out well-served dinners by the dozen, shaping them
all (like his ice-cream) in certain fashionable moulds.

We all retain just enough of the old Adam to relish a well earned
victory, and the old lady whose light hand for cake is the talk of the
township, is just as much of an artist in her own way as the fashionable
decorator. It is almost as impossible to set down a given rule for
entertaining as it was for the old darkey to present in tangible form
her famous recipe for pones. "Why, honey," said she, "it's easy enuf. I
jes stir up a little cohn meal and watah, adds some salt and other truck
and cooks it till it's done. Sho nuf you cud make it yousef."

It is quite as often the hand that stirs the cake as well as the
ingredients themselves that makes the entertainment successful.

There are some women who have a perfectly inexplicable talent for making
life livable. Under their deft fingers awkward curtains and draperies
assume classic form; from their imaginations blossom forth the most
marvelous devices for entertainment and comfort; their ferns never have
scales and their umbrella plants do not wither at the edges. These are
the women who, with studied patience and ready tact, overlook the small
ills our flesh is heir to and bring forth into the bright sunshine the
many opportunities which everyone's life contains.

A woman who lives in an apartment so tiny and modest it would seem at
first glance almost impossible to entertain therein, can study its best
effects and give as charming little dinners as were ever attended. Her
dining room, small but cosy, seems