The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-30

children 10 entertain II you have nothing
else on hand, viii you kindly manage this
fer me- Miss piayweii appears al the
proper time arrarges the rooms TO suit
herself and then sees that the various plays
are properly led. manages the children in
their dances. looks after the small ores
who are too shy 10 have a good time and
makes every blessed little pickle present
enjoy himself keeniy. Stif Mrs. Million
aire who is TO give a dinner party lets
Miss Pfaywel know 20 whom il is TO be
given. and behold. there Is some special
new scheme OF decorations for the table.
the menu cards are original, and the favorS
are unusually clever. Miss playweli mere
lyresails her brains for the benefit Of those
who either lack them or who do NOT care
to exercise them, and she is such delight
fully unseliish girl that she absolutely finds
pleasure in her work.
Her cousin. gentle Mrs. Industry. who
married a delightful man who cannot
earn penny and whose joy and heart
ache is her lame son. swells her income
in another way. She was educated in
French convent. and she knows how 10
sew as do only those ladies who have
been taught by the nuns. So when Miss
Fuss-and-feathers gets up sewing class
this winter Ii Is Mrs. Industry who
teaches that class OF girls how 10 sew,
for the fashionable girl is very ambitious
in this respect. and the teacher is paid
we'll for IL. Internationally she teaches
them some other things for which there
Is no accredited sum OF money paid. She
makes them comprehend the value of
lev, sweet voice in woman and of a quiet
and dignifed manner, and she impresses
upon them the fact that ladies are born.
and that good manners. while they can
be initiated, cannot be bought. Then there
Is Miss Tact. She has her mother and an
ola tn for MI ,an In.
come with which TO keep the three In
comfort. but during the winter she is the
very busiest OF the busy. She stays an
hour with Mrs. Glitter and quietly cor
reefs all grammatical mistakes that she
makes-mistakes that Mrs. Glitter did not
have time 10 think about when she was
working hard at the washtub before Gilt
ter made fortune in oil. Later in the
day she shows Mrs. Snob how 10 accept
an invitation to a dinner party and i'm
presses upon her that she must not sign
note in the first person. Mrs. Jacob
Snob." but that .'Corneiia Snob" repre-
sents her when she does not appear in
conjunction with Mr.. Jacob Snob the
Tammany politician. And so she goes on,
first with this one and then with that one,
correcting the mistaken speech and right
Ing any action of those who, as she po-
litely puts it, were too busy early in life
10 give tHousHl ~ the siHaii touTtesiss.
AS IL they weren't the great necessities.
Miss Tact is an important factor in life
today, and il she smiles a little sarcasti-
cally when some of her customers pa
tronize her you cannot blame her. for
Miss facts people were gentlefolk when
her clientele were unknown.
Mrs. Liyeweil Is a widow with five lit
tie children. Her days are spent In a
small town just outside of New York. and
In August she begins to chop citron and
pick currants and stone raisns for the
plum buildings that will go over the coun-
try in the winter months, and the profits
on which are sending her oldest boy 10
college and. will educate heR yo4uger