A statement that makes us in the PC, 21st century distinctly uncomfortable, but I will not digress nor apologize for the dead.
In any event, those were the days! Whilst looking through the first guestbook, an admittedly over the top summer day at Esperanza in the summer of 1878.*
Order of the Day
Reveille by Lucy on a horn – 6 AM
Traveller’s Breakfast – 6:30 AM
“All aboard that’s g’wine!” – 7 AM
Lazybones’ Breakfast – 8:30 AM
Walk to Minnietrost by ‘Cherubini’ (the children, for summer lessons) – 9 AM
Gin and tansy for the ‘Widow Goldsmith’ (Julie P. Smith) – 10:30 AM
Mint Juleps, omnes, specially for Mrs. Capt. Jim Smith – 11 AM
Lunch – 12 PM
St John XX:1-3 – 1 PM
Dinner with Claret and olives – 3 PM
Travellers return, reception for G.W. Ellsworth – 6 PM
Currant Ice by the ‘Queenly Carlotta’ – 9 PM
Twenty Questions – 9 PM to 12 AM
Night Cap – 12 AM
Break Down dance by G.W. and wife – 12.15 AM
*Appearances or Carpe Diem? Neither Julie’s writing nor Morris’ busines were going well, but they had a wonderful summer, which counts perhaps for more?
Acair Fearann 
Further proof (as though any were needed) that any generation which imagines itself to have invented the art of the party needs to take some lessons from their grandparents!