don't rush
The next step is to allow enough time for whatever may be the pleas­ure of your guests. In other words, for the duration of their stay, don't plan so tight a schedule that your guests feel rushed. Time for relaxa- tion for you and your guests is as important a part of entertaining as activity.

all the comforts
When you do take your guests to their room, unless it's daylight-saving time in midsummer, either have lights turned on at the dressing table and in the bathroom, or light them before the guests enter. Your careful work will have seen to it that everything they could possibly want is where they can easily find it, but you may want to show them where the clothes closet and the bathroom are, and which are their towels if the bath is shared with the family. The host will put the bigger bags on luggage racks, which have been previously removed from the guest room closet and set up. If you have overnight guests, you should have luggage racks because they're convenient for packing as well as unpacking. They save messing up the bed and soiling the cover.

50 her slip won't show
If there is no long mirror in your guest room but one in your own room, be sure to tell your lady guest she's welcome to use it whenever she wants to. You can't be well dressed without a check on the hem of your dress or the seams of your stockings.

Neither can you look well in wrinkled clothes, so offer your guests your services or your iron for pressing.

just ask
Before you leave your week-end guests to unpack, perk up, nap, or dress tell them to ask if there's anything they want and can't find. Some people have individual quirks and wants you can't possibly anticipate, but it's part of making them leel at home to let them know you're ready to provide anything they may desire.

the time element
Tell them, too, what time dinner will be served, it that's when they're supposed to appear. Then go about your own tasks, leaving them to do as they please until the appointed moment. For their whole stay with you, in addition to allowing them sufficient time to be un­hurried, keep them informed of the hours when meals, or other specific appointments, will take place. Or let them know that it doesn't matter when they get up, or come in from the golf course, if it doesn't. This makes it easier for them to cooperate and be good guests, and therefore to have a better time!