Party Manners
January, 1985
To have good manners at a party, you must understand what parties are all about. People do not give parties so their friends will have fun. If that were what they wanted, they'd just send some women and champagne over to your house in a taxi and be done with it. Parties are given for other reasons. The three principal motives are to get noticed and talked about, to climb the social ladder and to repay debts of hospitality. Good etiquette requires that you help your host achieve those objectives....
