And yet another, "Oh, I never have any ideas."
Nonsense!
It's not a question of knack or money or ideas. All you need is to know the secret, and it's an open secret at that!
First, ask yourself what you mean by a successful hostess. Your answer will be, "One whose guests have so good a time that they want to come again."
Sure enough! The secret is out then—entertaining successfully is giving the guests a good time.
"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.