The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11

'If you want to find out a woman's
 real nature or get guide to her char
 acter. invite her to spend a week or
 SO at your house in the suburbs,' said
 A voung matron 'Of course, don't mean that this will apply when you
 have a big house and plenty or ser
 wants; but if you do your own work like myself" The two neighbors who ] had dropped in for an afternoon looked 1 interested.
 Now I like to have my friends with me" the speaker announced trifie em-
 phatically, as if to disavow any pos | sible charge of inhospitality; but can't deny that I like to have some
 more than others. Would you believe | 1t? There really has been some one here q won't say when) who felt SO tired in the mornings that she couldn't accept quickly enough my half-hearted suggestion that I bring breakfast to
 her bedroom. And as for helping to
 make her bed'--a shrug of the shoul-
 ders told infinitely more than words l What in the world did you do IL forT' asked one of her auditors.
 "oh. I don't know-plaln foolish. l guess" was the response. Anyway l was getting my experience. and she never has been invited again.
 / "This guest of mine--by guest please, l I mean the recipient of favors-didn't l ltuality meant When John comes home 1 from the office at night he wants his tdlnner on the dot, and he should have ] It. I explained this state of affairs carefully to her ladyship with the re- 1 suit that the first evening of her ar
 rival she came smiling into the dining | room a quatrer of an hour late Maybe
 John didn't have to exercise self-control and maybe I didn't either She was | five minutes better the second night; after that she varied with q leaning toward longer delays. Did l wait for
 her? Not after the second night. And las for taking the hint-well, she wasn't
 that kind"
 | T know just how you felt" said one of her sympathetic listeners. "for I had
 some one with me last winter who irrl-
 tated me about as much. She didn't
 lie abed and she was on hand at meals. but she was one of the most uncon- sciously selash people have ever met. | It was just trifie to be sure, but
 her appropriation of the morning pa
 per indicated her general attitude. She'd capture it on coming down stairs and keep 1t in her lap all breakfast time.
 Think of my husband without his
 morning paper at breakfast, and going away without it, too for he never summoned up courage sufficient to ask | for it.. She'd sit on the piazza while l did up the dishes--I didn't have any
 girl but the fact apparently slipped | her mind-she positively couldn't keep
 her room in order; she had a genius | for dsarranging it: hats. my dears, on the bed posts, and the gas jet. and i trunk trays distributed lmpartially around the floor. She was an excellent 1 conversationalist. but she Is still wait ] ing for her second invitation to visit ' us."
 1 'I've had guests like those two" said
 the third member of the party. and ] | never want to have them again: but there's one person who stirs me up more | tkan anybody else. and that's the one who makes a convenience of her friends. She's the woman friend who comes | from a distance and who uses your home as a basis for shopping opera tions or as n handy spot from which
 to make calls on her New York ac- auaintances. who. apparently. don't care enough about her to Invite her to spend | the night She's all honey when sine
 comes in; then. after a day or so-trip-
 ping 1t to town--she begins to get ab-
 stratced, to say nothing of making
 comp naturally be-
 tween the houses of her city friends and mine. It never seems to occur 10 her that I might enjoy luncheon in New York; at least, she has never are