The Van Buren press., 1895-03-23
HER DAY AT HOME.
4 Discussion Of the Woman Who Having 3
Regular Reception Days Yet Goes Out.

"What do you think of woman,
presumably lady, who invites you to
her home, and then without excuse or
notice, is away from home when you
accept her invitation?' demanded
Laura, after the girls had sugared their
tea to their satisfaction and settled
themselves comfortably for good
talk
aOf course, you understand what l
tnean," she explained, as the group,
with feminine particularity, fell to
Specializing as to who the offender in
Question might be before giving their
verdict. 81 mean the woman who de-
1iberately and Of her own free viii
sets apart one day Of the week or
month to receive her friends, and even
has it engraved on her visiting cards.
thus tacitly inviting people to call on
her on that day, and then is not at
home when you do call"
'For my part" said Anna, II con-
slider it the greatest insult that wom-
an can put on her friends, and yet it
is SO commonly done by people who
ought to know better that one scarce
ly notices it except as an instance OF
| ill-breeding."
"Can any one thing make you feel
fatter and smaller, and sat on gener.
ally, / wonder?" said Mary. 81 never
risk the treatment twice, however
After one such experience usually
give that house and its mistress a wide
| BERTH"
"That's right" said Agnes, approv-
| ingly. "None of the people one really
wants to know ever do such things,
and little freezing out would do a
world of good in such cases."
81 would rather receive direct in
| jury than snub," said little Lucy
from her corner, land yet whenever |
call on a woman on her receiving day
| to be met by the maids noncommittal
mot at home can not help feeling as
| if had received slap in the face or a
bucket of cold water, fguratively
speaking of course; and / never can
get over the feeling that perhaps she
| was at home after all and that it was |
personally that she objected to. At
any rate never gave her the chance to
| try it rgain."
That's one side of the story" OBJ
| jected Marian. "You forget that there
are occasions and invitations that no
mortal woman could resist which
have habit of coming invaria bly,
for your day at home, and when you
have heroically resisted them for two
or three times and stayed at home the
whole lonely afternoon thinking what
you have missed, and without one soli-
tary visitor, | tell you the Nervousness
of the offense seems very greatly less
ened and the newt time you are apt to
go, and of course that is the very time
| that there will be a dozen or more call
ers, in whose blackest books you are
Immediately put. 1t is hard to know
| just how to act"
at is just such women as you are we
are talking about" said Laura scorn-
fully, land warn you that if ] were
ever to be subjected to such an insult
at your hands l would Immediately
drop you from my visiting list just the
same as l would any other undersira-
BILE person.
"It amounts to just this" she con-
tinued warmly. "If you are not will.
ing to keep sacred the first of the So
cial commandments, Thou shalt stay
at home on the day thou hast ap-
pointed why, don't have any day or
let your friends know that it is sub.
juct to conditions, and they will not
bother you by coming at the wrong
time-or any other time" she added,
significantly.
"'And them's my sentiments, too"
echoed each of the other speakers en-.
phatically. ly.-Chicago Times.