The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-24
PROFIT IN WEEK END VISITS.

"What do you suppose she an
swered when I invited her up for a
week ?" asked the woman who was
playing dummy in the last game.
"She had the audacity to write that
she did not think it would pay her
to come for such short time"
The game was finished and after
the scores were settled the women
arose from the tables, which were on
the piazza, and walked over to stand
to pick out the prizes, which were
wrapped in white tissue paper and
tied with pink ribbon.
"Isn't she naive !'' remarked a
horse faced woman with greedy eyes
who was carefully feeling every pack
age in order if possible to discover
what was in it before she finally made
selection. "Could anything be
more ingenious than to be Mortified
because people consider whether or
not a visit is going to pay them? !?
Why shouldn't they? Such ideas
belong to the black walnut period Of
society, when no hostess dared to
name the day when you were expect
ed to leave and guests used to stop
just as long as they wanted to-"
Then she found prize to her taste
and walked over to the tea table,
where she continued the conversa-
ton.
"Why, at the house where I am
now I always come on account of the
mineral water. They. always have
on tap a kind that does my gout more
good than anything else in the world.
"It's terribly high priced, but here
it is put in the rooms all the time. A
week or even few days up here does
me lots of good, because I take a
regular cure.
81 know lots of people who make
visits for the same reason. l don't
mean to say that they think of moth
ing else, but they do keep such at
fractions in mind in addition to the
good time they expect to have. 1t
helps, too, in deciding when there are
several invitations.
"Take my cousins house, for in
stance. Heaven knows it's dull
enough up there, and there isn't a
man in the neighborhood under 10.
Yet always go there in November
when they ask me.
MARY has French maid, one of
the old-fashioned, trained, thorough
kind, wonderful seamstress. She
mends lace in way that would cost
no end of money in New York.
$50 I take all the lace gowns 1
have been dragging around all sum-
mer and there in a week she makes
them look as good as they ever did.
All it costs me is the S. I give her
and save a lot on it"
Sometimes the rule works the other
way. Certain houses are too expen-
sive for the invited guest and he de-
cides to go elsewhere rather than run
into danger.
ct can't go there" said a man,
putting down a letter at his club,
although 1 am perfectly certain that
should have very good time. 1t
was fine, in fact, last October.
"But they don't play any bridge
there, and the trip costs $40. Then
there are the butler and the valet,
which brings the expense up.to $14,
and there is always likely to be din
ner at his brothers. house, which
means lot more money.
Although there is no bridge for
money in the house 1 go to, the
brother, who has the adjoining place,
has roulette table that he brought
from Paris. It plays about 20 per
cent. in favor of the house. Brothers S
wife always banks aud it is a delight
to see her eagerness in clutching the
profits.
"I have never seen her win less
than $25, and if there are many per-
sons at dinner she can make great
deal more. It is hard for the family
to wait until the coffee is we'll done,
they are so anxious to get at roulette.
lone can have very good time
by visiting that place, but it is costly.
1 guess I'll pay my own way down to
Atlantic City over Sunday. That'll
be cheaper"
"They do valet you we'll, though, "
said a friend who also knew the house.
"I always sort of feel that have
worked out the saving in that way.
"That fellow they have up there is
a wonder, and / always take along
with me great trunk full of clothes.
know it must give them decided
shock when they see it and think that
have come for an extended stay,
but I run that risk.
IT did feel mortified one day when
the baggage wagon left the trunks or
the road in front of the house and
mine with the clothes for stop o.
three days looked as big as a house
I knew perfectly well that I would be
expected to appear in a dazzling
series of toilets, but there were only
two suits there fit to be worn and the
rest had been brought up for repairs. .
IT never take Clothes" drawled {