CONTENTS

Page
[The Dining Room]1
[ At the Breakfast-Table]16
[ More about Breakfast]24
[ The Invalid's Breakfast]32
[ A Breakfast-Party]40
[ Family Breakfasts for Spring]48
[ Family Breakfasts for Summer]58
[ Family Breakfasts for Autumn]68
[ Family Breakfasts for Winter]77
[At Luncheon]88
[ A Small Luncheon]96
[ A Large Luncheon]104
[ A Standing Lunch]112
[ The Lunch Basket]120
[ Family Lunches for Spring]128
[ Family Lunches for Summer]137
[ Family Lunches for Autumn]147
[ Family Lunches for Winter]157
[ Dinner at Night]165
[ Dinner at Noon]173
[ The Sunday Dinner]181
[ The Small Dinner-Party]188
[A Large Dinner]196
[ Family Dinners for Spring]204
[ Family Dinners for Summer]213
[ Family Dinners for Autumn]221
[ Family Dinners for Winter]230
[ What Shall We Eat?]239
[ The Children's Table]247
[The Family Tea]255
[Afternoon Tea]263
[High Tea]271
[ Some Hints about Supper]279
[China and Glass]288
[ Linen and Silver]296
[Index]305

What to Eat
How to Serve it


THE DINING-ROOM

THE apartment in which the members of a family assemble three times a day for meals must be pleasant. There is a chance to escape from any other part of the house. The business man rarely sees his drawing-room until after the shades are drawn and the lamps lighted. The wife and mother divides her time between nursery, sewing-room, and kitchen, while school-children are out of the house nearly as much as they are in it—at least during their waking hours. But no matter how widely the little flock may be scattered by their different employments, always twice and often three times a day they are all together in this common rallying-place of the home.