New-York tribune., 1907-07-28
WARDROBE DESTROYED.

After ALL" chmed in Mrs. X. "one can have
such injuries repaired more easily than one can
have gowns made and new hats built and
can supply other deficiencies in the wardrobe.
After the trouble Of getting together everything
for the summer ii is pretty hard to your
wardrobe destroyed right before your eyes when
you are too far from town To replenish il.
had a perfect run Of friends last summer who
always wore my things Sometimes their maids
had forgotten to pack up dresses for special oc-
casions sometimes they themselves forgot and
oftener, 1 firmly believe, they just did not bother
to bring what they claimed they needed. so as
to save their clothes at the expense of mine.
+ rapidly acquired a collection OF torn hounces,
ragged laces. rain spoiled hats brartorn para
sos, and even had one charming dinner gown
destroyed"
What" exclaimed her listeners. why. how
did she do it,"
Burned a hole n the front with a cigarette, -
resignedIy replied the narrator. 1T was the
kind OF gown that nothing could mend, s. l lost
that rs well as innumeTabie wells and gloves.
was thankful to keep my shoes. Nature kindly
gave me a small foot and, try as they would.
my borrowing friends never were able to wear
my footgear.
"Of course. a hostess expects to supply pieces
of wardrobes that may be forgotten. Sometimes
Il week end guest is prevailed upon to stay
longer, and then a hostess is only too glad to
lend such wearing apparel as will do, in order
to keep q charming guest. But these women are
different from the professional borrower. She
is of a type that has the bump OF destruction
well developed and the things she borrows are
rarely good for any other use afterward."
4 think" another woman remarked. that
the selfish guest Is a good deal Of trouble. 1
once invited a very clever woman to spend q
week with l quite expected that she would
prove the life Of my house party-which per-
haps selfish OF me. AT any rate, she did
not appear at breakfast the first morning after
her arrival, and she never did appear, except
upon rare occasions, when something particu-
larly aluring going on, during the entire
week. She said that her to
a fraZzle being agreeable for so many months,
and that she thought my lovely country home
was an ideal place in which to take the rest
cure she so sorely needed. It kept most of US
with d sort Of depressed feeling. knowing that
she was lying around in a wrapper. with q
novel for company, and not knowing whether
she might not really be i'll. Besides, did not
dare go off and leave her with only the ser
wants in. the evening for fear that she might
take a notion to come down to dinner and feel
insulted if l not there"
Il entertain very small SCALE observed
Mrs H. because neither my house nor my
means are large, and you know what n trial II
IS to keep servants where only two are regu-
larly employed in the house. 1t is different
where there are a number; they enjoy house
parties as much the rest of us do, l have
found the guest who comes down late to meals
about the most trying. Girls, particularly, have
such a way of struggling in an hour before
luncheon and wanting breakfast Nothing so
irritates servants that The cook has to
prepare an extra meal and the maid. who at that
time in the morning is busy elsewhere, has to
drop her other work and serve it, have lost
so many servants through this cause that l
deny myself the pleasure of inviting friends
whom I know. nothing tsill break of this habit.
l did try rule of some friends of mine. They
always insist that theG guests shall not come