St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-13
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Is Their Hospitality Wholly
OF the Oisintepested
Sort?
lie Baron Talks About Them,
and About Some
BOreS.
The Early-Rising Bore, Bores
Married and BoreS I'm
married.
There Is No Escaping the
Bore in the Small Coun-
try House.

New YORK, Nov. 1O.-I have some
relatives in the country who are very
hospitable. 1t seems ungrateiul TO mint
that friends who live in the country ana
mandate one with invitations have any
unworthy motive for hospitality, that 1t
is prompted by any feeling but that OF
pure good nature; but, if you have ever
lived in a very small house Ill the MD
die of a very big lot with one person
whom you have not just recently falleh
in love Within fact, with some one
that you know with that familiarity
that breeds ennui-well, then you know,
indulgent reader, that am not SO un-
grateful as | appear when say that
the hospitality of country friends is not
quite the pure and unadulterated artl-
Gle.
The way in which the country couple
TO which | am indebted for so many
pressing invitations rush at any mere
acquaintance and beg him to come and
spend few days with them, or at any
rate from Saturday till Monday, looks
suspicious. The way in which they VIII
take no excuse looks more than Sus-
piciOus; it looks bad.
When YOU know absolutely nothing OF
a man or woman but what passing III
PRODUCTION, a visiting card and a llttle
desutory conversation can tell you, III
argues a deplorable state to beg them,
on their horOr, to catch the 9:45 on Sat
urday night, and not Oh any account 10
delay till Sunday morning.
NV country friends, fear, are in this
deporable state. They ask any one to
visit them-l was going to say any
thing. at the cost of this expression
being kind of reflection on myself.
BOres Of the most pronounced charac-
ter are met with within these hoSplta6le
walls. Men who tell long, long stories
at dinner-Stories that take twenty
minutes to tell, stories of which one
knows the point before 1t Is reached.
and when it is reached it is not point
after all, and the risibe muscles refuse
to perform the task imposed upon them.
Bores who get up early and go for
long walks, or battle yirtuOuSly In the
bay before breakfast, and brag about it
all day after. Who begin to dress at D
a. ILL.,, and creak about the house talking
in stage whispers, tumbling over things
in the dim light, and banging doors.
BOres who devote themselves to anus
inc the children (alaS, there are chill
dren) and amuse them in the resorts Of
their elders, instead Of taking them to
some retired spot where their childish
voices cannot be heard and their exist
ence can be forgotten. This species of
bore reads aloud to them, and encour-
ages them to develop an ingenious,
frank, fearless kind OF conversation at
table.
Married bOres, who advise the I'M
married visitor to marry, and delight III
telling anecdotes which are peculiarly
suited to married people and peculiarly
unsuited to the unmarried.
Unmarried bores, who look suSpi-
CiOuSiy on any other visitor OF the OPP
posite sex, thinking they have been
asked with an object.
There is no escaping the bore in the
small country house. There is no pri
vaey. The dun at the kitchen door,
ineXorable and irasclble, expressing a
loud opinion about people who keep
tradesmen waiting for their money, can
be heard by the guest reading on the
piazza, without effort, though the chill
{ are playing the piano at the same
Eime.
Rain lectures between Darby and
Joan are heard through the thin walls
of the guest chamber, and guest pos
sesSing the greatest amount of Say0ire
faire can hardly make an unembarrasSed
entry into the breakfast room alter hear
ing through the gloom of the preceding
night the peeviSh query, "Why on earth
did you ask him again"
No doubt the country people have
good reason to try and interpoSe guest
or two between themselves at the dim
ner table. No doubt they are more to
be pitied than blamed. No doubt the
same face every day at dinner. and no
other face. is a trial that is almost in
SuppOrtable, even with palms and or
chids and roses to obscure the view OF
it, but. having assumed the yoke of
misery, it is fair to intlict a portion of
the yoke on ones friend, even from
Saturday till Monday.
The winter gowns, or more strictly
Speaking late autumn ones, show q
tendency to limit themselves to elabOra-
ton in the matter of reverS and sleeves.
When | say reverS include those gath
cred affairs which sometimes run from
shoulder to belt and rather hide the lines
of the figure. They have increased in
size lately and have grown into those
wings which are now making the capes
a necessity. The coats of the moment
have moderately sloping shoulders aud
are very eXuberant in the outward
tendency of the sleeves. The sealskin
coats share this popularity, and any
woman who likes to be spltefuI
can easily trace a friends coat of
last season by her sleeves. The Russian
blouse is popular shape Tor sealskins,
and is not so clumsy as one would think.
n large quantity of fur will be worn on
the coats, capeS and gowns this winter,
and the poke bOnnets which are sup
posed to be modelled on the empire style
win have beaver brimS.