The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

anu ny complying, no OOuDC you Will
confer. a favor on the ladies of this city,
who look to the coming of the STATES
MAN every morning as they do to an
anticipated visit from welcome and
interesting friend.
l am truly yours
MIS-. ....
IT'S little queer that the ladies
should ask the opposite sex for their
views upon calling" 1t strikes us
that the ladies have monopoly ON that
art and that they should not surrender
their prerogative of exercising their
sole and undisturbed authority upon
that subject. Isls task we are utterly
unable 20 perform and with trembling
and hesitation do we walk to the brink
of the grand Swing around the cir
cle." Having views on this subject, as
upon all Others, the STATESMAN feels
that it would be breach of etiquette
not to give due notice to the note from
lady friend.
''CslliDg"-well what sort of CALI
ingi Perhaps all sorts. Calling to pay
what one owes aud another wants and
has the right to expect is always in or
der. The Oldest inhabitant cannot re-
member when any one took offense or
was thrown into Mysteries because he
received such a CALL, We assert, too,
with the same confidence that
there Is no hour or minute
out of season for a call from any one
who is ambitious to return little bat
ter, sugar. soda, salt, salaratus, tea,
az 10 h0o kA.k
had been borrowed fortnight be-
fore. No one need ever hesitate for
one moment or have any computations
of conscience whatever about making
calls of this kind. But when it comes
to society calling" neighborly call
ing, or the bobbing in and bobbing out
sort Of calling that is common in all
countries and peculiar 10 none, then
we come TO the knotty part of the
question. From q limited experience
In life aud IN society, We have come to
the unanimous conclusion that four
fifths of the female portion of any COM
munity call about ten times as much
as they ought to, while the other fifth
put in time staying at home and re-
ceiving calls-calls they do not want
and would be better off without. As
a matter of proper adjustment, we sug-
gest that the four-tifths stay at home
for awhile to give the other fifth
chance to inaugurate and carry out q
calling campaign" II would do very
we'll, however, il everybody would
manage to get q comfortable home and
then make q creditable effort to get
their own consent to stay there lib
eral share of the time. 'Calling" is
made a speciality of by shoddy people
especially-those who are not much,
but are exceedingly ambitious to i'm
press everybody with the idea that they
are immense aud want to become i'm
menser at the earliest possible period.
Women who have q chronic passion for
We had better say
gsdding about generslly-will gener-
ally be warmly welcomed by ladies who
have Just got new silk dress or q new
spring hat of the latest fashion,
especially il they will drop q sly hlnt
that they intend TO call on all the bon
tons in the town during the next sixty
days-an event altogether probable il
their wind don't give out. Il never dis
turbs lady to have . chronic skipper
enlighten the people thoroughly about
the gorgeousness of her wardrobe. |
The great fault with ''callers" Is that |
they don't stay long enough. They |
should call just before breakfast re-
main TIL after supper, and then in
taking their departure express their |
regrets that they are unable TO stay
all night or over Sunday. Generally
those who have the least call the most
and those who call the most are the
least welcome. A person can be stuff
ed on calis. as they can on dried apples
and warm water, until they become
partectiy miserable. This u whT 90
many people break up housekeeping
aud move into the country, and esen
then the plague has In some instances
been known 20 follow them ten or
twenty mules. Chronic s,callersn have
been known to climb over hills. fences
md 70 enter through tie second story
windows when they found Themselves !
barred out below.
We fsar or sieva On tie ssbjsc, a /