The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-24

though you may be the most thoughtful
of feminines.
Women are packing their trunks, are
writing letters of acceptance, are sending
off kilograms and telephones this blessed
minute who are no more to be trusted
from home than ew-born infants.
They haven't the faintest idea how to
visit. And to think how much heavenly
tact is required of a guestt From the
time the hostess threshold is crossed
until there is a last goodbye there should
be only consideration upon the part OF a
visitor.
Divine consideration, understand, the
kind that keeps one constantly on the
alert. 'Horrid way to VISIT you may
argue. but If is the only way, and part
punishment for breaking bread at some
body else's table.
I know a cottage by the sea so close to
the dancing waves that each white-cap
seems ready at high tide to roll over the
sand dunes before the cottage steps. An
ideal place to laze the July days away.
To get within the hospitable doors of
this lodge is to be- certain of a froIic-
I sat beside its hostess the other morn
A1lS w liz E4At RtI4ODA~0 aoNSS L.
gagement book, and this what 1 heard:
Miss r.. Charming girl, you say?
Yes. in her own home. She should never
leave it. Honestly, 1 could not be both
cred with her for one day. let alone ten.
No, she must be crossed off my list this
season. A pretty girl. too. Such a shame.
What's the matter with her? She both
cred my life out last summer wanting
things. She burns so easily and yet she
came down to the shore without an ounce
of cream or one sensible veil. She was
always fretting if her face smarted from
the sun, and then began a series of runs
on my toilet stand. l turned over to her
lotions to soothe, creams to heal and the
very wells needed most.
when we went fishing she had no fish
ing skirt. When we went ~pfcknieing she
had no shade hat; when it rained she lac
10 waterproof. Oh. no. that is an impos-
sible girl.
~Mrs. B. goes off, too. She is another
troublesome creature. Her trick is Dor
rowing letter paper, stamps, postal cards.
1t seems small potatoes and few in a
HILL as grandmother used TO say, to men
ton such trifes, but it is really the small
thieveriesI do not hesitate to call them
just that-that provoke me So"
Here | began to la,lgh so heartily that
the indignantly remarked
TT may seem funny to Won. hut there is
nothing yerv IaughabIe to me in hinkinp
people are lovely, only to find out they
are torments. Having them in the house
for a little time settled them one wav or
the other for all time so far as / am CON
ceraed."
A wholesale slaughter Of names finally
settled the VISITORS, hook 10 my hostess,
entire satisfaction
sTl,ere. I trust ! have mot one woman
among INV future guests who cannot Wis
it like a ladv Dear me If 7 sbo,,qd bv
some fatal mistake have 4 borrower lafti
/ can forgive a woman who f1irts with INV
husband If she will onlv LET my clotbes
ard my creams aione wont ~ sn+;ra
ea5son IN F6a shsbh,ezt GOLF GANG heeause
. a,,esf took ] fancy f. INV cloak Of
e;5ardown ana With after ono vaar-
ing reid onto II ,nti, her danart,re
Nv friend hos i,,st cameo for eono,laint
IT IS a disease with 50 many this one Of
borrowing. 4 garment loaned i looked
mon as far more Incoming han one
owned. + nave saen a woman cock on her
head n fright Of a hat With an air as if
70 say
..Tbara am not FOO suae+ IN Il ~ u,ben
IN realty something of her own was as
m,cb nrettier as # il nossibie n imagine