The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-12

esting so many things viii enter in that
no Que reason can be given for success.
People enough is certainly large ele-
mellt. For one thing, there is always
someone to talk TO under these circum-
stances and much touch and 60 in the
conversation. Ii this is not real brill
fancy II makes an excellent substitute for
IL. Men VINO are most agreeable for a
passing greeting have little or no small
talk and give you, indeed, bad quarter
OF an hour when there is no one at hand
TO relieve them or you. The woman who
IS fascination itself at first, becomes in
foierable II you cannot see another to take
her place.
a tete-a-tete-that paradise or pur-
gatory, as the case may be-is at once pos
sible and unnecessary if the room be full.
1ou may retire to q convenient corner.
secure from observation among so many
II you wish, but you Will not be under the
necessity of talking half the evening with
any one man or woman for lack Of a pos
slble method OF departure.
Brief conversations are the rule, how
ever. IL a crowned room, and short talk
with many friends, and it is these light
and airy nothings that best suit such oc-
c2slons- Such a state of things implies.
100, that most of the guests are standing,
and this makes introuuctions easy, and
changing from one person TO another very
simple.
But in those unhappy parlors where
there is room enough" only the very
bold will dare 10 cross the empty spaces
TO a friend, and there viii be no chance to
meet the hon, because you are not pushed
up against him.
Another most decided advantage in
t'tno many peoples is the obvious fact
that among them all each will find those
he wishes TO See Except IN the very
close and compact circles of 'fsociety, y
par excellence, the grand danes of whose
inner circles need no suggestions as to the
business of entertainment, except for
such as these it is great point toward
The satisfaction of the company to have it
so varied that all shall find friends.
In our diversified and democratic land
every man has a score of interests, and
when he opens his doors be likes to
gather from all the circles where he
counts men as friends. This is even
more true of women.
The circles of the world of today inter
lace in bewildering ENHANCEMENT. Let
rhe host invite freely from them all. and
so many other guests that each seems to
know the whole company; and thus each
remembers no pauses, no seasons of
wonder and dreary doubt, no converse
lions heightened out long beyond the
vanishing point, lest they have no sue
ceSsor at all.
EVERYBODY Is WELL DRESSED.
There are incidental advantages, too.
Those gorgeous garments that looked so
we'll when you had so little space or time
for scanning them, were the same gowns
that showed the wear or tear Of the second
season where there was plenty of room to
display them. 1t is only the fortunate
wearer of purple who can afford TO desire
room enough to show her train. And in
this country men wear their dress suits
an incredible length Of time. In all the
east, moreover, the gay yonng girls can
only pray their friends to invite more
and more, for else, where win there be
men enough to dance the evening
through? And similar cry for ''girls
enough" goes up from many a western
town.
Every good rule, like every good per-
son, has the defect of its qualities. 1t is
true that so many people will fill the
house little to full, that it Will be hot,
and that you cannot eat your supper in
peace. But these things are better than a
dismal atmosphere for which no one can
account. 1t is OF no great matter if the
temperature is above the normal (espe-
clally If there is some ventilation), and
the chief end of party is not eating
that is the function of a dinner-while in
every other respect a crowd has double
advantages lOE every van IaOe.
Therefore; when the would be hostess ar
rives at that anxious place on her list
where she debates ''shan l or shall
not?'' over the names which form
the outer edge of her acquaintance,
let her decide favorably with
out hesitation. AS matter of
fact, one and another and another guest
most certainly expected, will decline for
reasons OF their own, good, bad and indif-
ferent. The hour cores to most enter
taineas when those debated invitations
will be a large reliance to fill the empty
rooms, and even distinctly uninteresting
guests will be greeted with great relief.
Sc do not hesitate, whoever you may be.
lest you have too large a number. Many
and many party has been wrecked for
want OF guests enough, but the few evils
OF comfortable crowd are always for
gotten in the remembered pleasure of an
evening of which it could be said 'every-
body was there ANNA L. DAWES.