Excerpt from A Handbook of Hospitality for Town and CountryIn providing for her guests, nay, Often in securing these, the country hostess must fight a series of battles royal with this great centripetal force, which drags everything from her grasp.She will soon grow discouraged unless she remembers that there is another law which works in an Opposite direction. Just as the cities cannot exist by themselves, and must draw their supplies from the surrounding country, so the minds and souls Of men would starve, did they not from time to time Re turn to Nature. This centrifugal force works most strongly, of course, in the heated months, when stone pavements and arid wastes Of brick seem so odious in the towns, and even the rulers Of the kitchen prefer the seaside or the mountains For a time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.