Hospitality among the Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo, among numerous human and moral virtues, is an important and above all a cultural characteristic which has been discussed more than studied in professional circles. The late academic of SANU (SASA) Atanasije Urosević has left us some important scientific writings as a reminder of those times using his extraordinary anthropological and ethnological personal insights based on his field investigations. In the context of hospitality of people of Gnjilane region we are presenting a valuable text of the author with the aim to prevent it to be forgotten. We are to be faced with an inevitable requestioning of some important but today somewhat forgotten values - personal, socially appropriate and civilization conformed principles in interpersonal relations and behavior.