Two extracts from The Perfect Christmas (1933) by Rose Henniker Heaton.
Right people
Cheerful People
Lots of Young People
The guest with a car
The Enterprising Girl
The Elderly Woman who can tell fortunes
The Elderly Man (if red-faced and jolly).
The Handy-Man (issue invitation early, as he is in great demand).
Anybody good with children.
The Unselfish Friend.
Wrong people
The Bone-lazy.
The Egoist.
Mischief-makers.
Spoil-sports.
The Greedy and the Selfish.
Mean People (who suffer tortures at Christmas).
People who always feel “out of things.”
[RR]