The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-11
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TJAVE remarked before and I repeat
the remark that teas and receptions
are pleasant affairs to have and To
hold The persons who doesn't like
| them, either makes an afrectation Of
her singularity or else hasn't very
| many friends that she wants to meet
You are sure to see all your friends at
IL tea. Somehow your enemies always
stay considerably away. never met
an enemy at Il tea or reception in my
life. Now isn't that odd? Queer too,
that it never occurred to me before.
No wonder | like to go to teas. How
ever one isn't likely to meet enemies
anywhere if one doesn't want to be
an enemy to somebody.
Men never can sec why we like to
go to teas. But then they have that
Board of Trade where they pay Il great
deal Il year for the privilege of hearing
themselves talk. The disadvantages
there is that occasionally somebody
has to keep still. No such hindrance
exists at n tea. You know that a bore
is someone who wants to talk about
himself when you want to talk about
yourself. am told that many menu
bers Of the Board of Trade are con-
stantly being made unhappy by this
unfortunate fact.
Now at a tea when we are tired of
hearing someone talk about herself we
can always politely step on another
friends train or jostle her gently or
do something which will give us the
craved release with never a hint of our
design. It's different at the Board of
Trade,
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They tell you how well you are looking
and what becoming frock you have
and you believe it all and go home
purring like pussy that has had n
saucer of cream. You are confident
that they mean it all. every word, be-
cause you said the same things your
self to the others and you meant it.
Why not? as the March hare said.
They all have worn their prettiest
gowns and their prettiest smiles they
all have left the cook and Johnny's
newest tooth at home and they think
of happy things and naturally enough
say them. Nothing in the way of
scandal is discussed. for two reasons:
First, the sister-in-law Of the one who
is being scored may happen to be
standing with her shoulder touching
yours on the side where you aren't
looking and then any way you don't
think of scandal but only of pleasant
things at Il tea. May the fashion
never die out
A fair faced, dmpled Chinned little
lady said the other day: why do
you suppose that people allow so many
unused and antedated signs to remain
on buildings in this town? There are
some of the most misleading placards
and window signs on nearly every
street. They stare out like gaunt faces
from a haunted house telling of in
fluence and power departed and they
don't mean anything in the world but
defeat and failure If not death and
oblivion. | should think owners of
office buildings and business locations
would make haste to obliterate the
legends which tell of past occupants
who, more than likely, are not source
of unmixed pleasure in the memory.
There are some of these signs which
have remained years on windows after
the owners Of the same have long de-
parted to another city or country.
These forlorn old placards make
Scranton look like Western boom
town"
Half of the women do not bring uD
their boys to be husbands. They
bring them up to be society men, to
be friends and chums and perhaps