The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
The Inconvenience of
 H. Timed Visits

w worlds sinners who mean no
 harm" then surely just pun ishnent will be fneted to the inconven- ieut guest, whose rank among well-in- tentioned criminals is high
 There is the woman who lives in . hotel, who thinks (if she Is ever guilty of that process) that marketing is done by machinery and that houses run themselves.
 She drops in upon you at 10 o'clock in the morning, smiling. immaculate, pno- e day. She generously ignores the dust on the parlor table and the twisted condi- ton of your collar. She is tactfuily deaf S the wsns gs .ne of Mary who has walked past the door six times, pe- cause she must see you before going out on that errand.
 town, she explains. She Is going 70 lunch with a friend later Shs wonders how you stay at home so nstantly, but then she supposes It s,ad haS iss com- ,oia- your friends when they call.
 An hour later, having torn your mora ing to shreds and spoiled what was once very lovely disposition, she soes away, stili smiling. and no doubt tn- wardly congratulating herself upon hav- ing brought a bit of variety Into your monotonous day.
 break bread under your roof without hidebound invitation--oh, dear, no! 5he knows that the business hours of the masculine end of your establishment compel you to eat on the minute, and at what an unprejudiced observer might consider not quite seasonahle houri but that makes no difference.
 Going in Moment.
 She is going in a moment; she couldn't possibly stay. They are expecting her home to- dinner. Isn't 1t too bad that Mrs. Az has such absurd hoursY She wouldn't think of keeping you: but she does. She stays on. and chats serenely about the weather and the shortcomings 7 of her dressmakes and the newest book .'OhI haven'tyou read it3'' While footstepss ominously heavy me move a about sse,. listen with an automatic smile, and an awful sense of impending domestic dis aster.
 that you write articles which misguided editors occasionally accept. and, what Is more astonishing. pay for.
 She doesn't know just .,. nov s.i you .04 az .s nc dead easy. She thinks shell bring around something she's written for you to look at--and she does.
 She comes at an hour when you are simply steamina over your work She thinks it is simply delicious to have sonething to do that can be picked up any old time The little thing she has written--weil, of course, you may not care for it, but her sister thought t quite the cleverest thing. She believed she would typewrite 1t if you would Just show her little about your machine: Your work was on the typewriter nowf Oh, she didn't mind waiting. while you took 1t out She would just love to see her story in type; S would pc almost as So she stays, while you seethe and rage and the fire of genius burns low, and then she goes away and! tells sHmeOSns i;tfle Sit old 1 maidish. M sFheseS women who fancy they are clever are so apt to, my dear"
 Then there is the woman who arr dropped in to have lunch with. you Of course, you won't make any change for her. She seldom takes anything but a cup of tea and bread and but ter in the middle of the day.
 A Housekeepers' Litany.
 Your sister-in-law and her baby are quite d little party: Does the oapy come to the table7 That must pc rather troublesome. None of the chil. theY were five. Children are so apt 10 make embarrassing speeches. N0w' vou are sure 1t won't make any dii- ference if she stays! AEu yS1 like lady and a GhrisIian anI how mur to yourself How ions--'"' Ao" ioWs Worse than these transitory wor. ries however, are the tnconveniishhSS guests who come 10 stay over nlshe pr longer. -, o at tha time you mention" writes ,,tet,,ss noted for her many sterling Virsuss, t "but I will run over the last oA ,,,s,1zs nSIss month for a week or so. You ssl hmoW you never have to make any uiiAe'- enSe Seu with the ,Hs last week in next month a aeamsfress Is to be in the mouse as,. ay. three days; you had planned q 1 tSera and frfr, on your own account ahI - fs fo be d play in town for tnat ~ -se only which you have been oyinS ~ the ever since it Afr first n aPpeattsdt P%pspts to come.
 Mrs B. is the kindest, dearest s4Sl ha . 4l.a world. and her feelings Wouso es hurt irreyocably if you so LS..t,,ys LnuoH hinted that her visit was illoPlpos lPlS.. too She likes your undivided que at.eiei0s,, ser,,,nies no,ost anu theatregoing. So, you heave ... iiftie regretful sigh and wss wriIe her. snyiro how Rlad you will pc to sSS tSu {,sn enend the next three days ts t. hss ing to straighten out the tahsis ossres,,iIv made in the skein of your e'' arTSass% TSaTe was g once humorously inciined, ins, srItferer who remarked that tns,t tns,ttsn be- he housekeepers htany "ii''0''
 slsSrtS From the thralldom of old tamns servants-good Lord deliver TtttnV to
 And to this petition it seems H''
 eoI nFrom so ahe ineonvenient guest also good Lord deliver us.