Breakfast can be served in the orthodox American style, however, and if you never plan more than two courses, which will take you away from the table only once-that's very good management.

a help to easy serving
A Lazy Susan, if your dining table is big enough, is a useful accessory for entertaining at breakfast, especially when there is no service. The newest ones have the advantage of being low, closer to the table than the old ones, so there is no awkward reaching up to get at them. On the Lazy Susan you put sugar, cream, extra butter, the muffin dish, jam, all the extras which would ordinarily have to be passed from hand to hand.

breakfast linen
The linen to be used at a breakfast party should be gay and colorful, and can be very inexpensive. It should blend well with the china you use at this meal. Remember that gaiety is not synonymous with a riot of color and pattern. It is, rather, color, but not too many colors; it is a pattern in color, but not too "busy" a pattern. Though you want a bright and freshly appointed table at breakfast, you don't want it to be dazzling.

a pretty breakfast table
One of the prettiest breakfast tables I ever saw had a theme of pink and gray. The gray linen cloth and the napkins were appliqued very simply in pink. The china was white with an apple blossom design: place plates, coffee cups, coffee pot, creamer and sugar bowl. The hot course was chicken livers and eggs cooked in handsome gray and pink individual covered casseroles. Plain crystal goblets matched the orange juice glasses. The flat silver and butter plates gleamed, and the center­piece of pink carnations, accented here and there by blue corn flowers, tightly filled a small bowl. It was a joy to see and thoroughly appetizing.

setting the breakfast table
For breakfast parties, use your very best silver, as you do for every meal. Flat silver is built to stand all tests of time and use. If you own it, use it. Take care of it, but have the pleasure of it every day and at every meal. For a breakfast party you probably will not need many more pieces than a knife and fork, a couple of teaspoons and a butter knife for each person. The rules for table setting apply at breakfast as well as at luncheon or dinner. The knife goes to the right of the plate with the cutting edge in; spoons to the right of the knife. The fork or forks go to the left of the plate, in the order in which they are to be used, from the outside in.