The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02
IT'S QUEER ABOUT VISITORS.
How no They Pick Out the Evenings when
Their Hosts Don't Expect Them?

How DO They Pick Out the Evenings vines
Their Hosts Don't Expect Them?
IT there's anything in luck IL dossn'
give the wife and me much Of a break II
one respect complained the young marries
man. what I'm talking about ID this
Whenever anybody or anybodies drop II
Of an evening to 600 US the wife and I lool
like-wel, like .tranps.
snow. / don't know why It is. but In New
York it's hard to Get folks to name an exao
evening for calling upon you. You invit.
en- to drop IN and 80 you on such and Blci
an evening, but they always tas you 90 IA,
Is any particular evening is concerned.
-''oh, we'll look IN on you some evening
next week. l. the way you get 1t.
And then Of course, IN your state ol
uncertainty during all OF the evenings Of
next week YOU'VE got to stand by with
your wife to greet visitors.
that's the way Il works out with ~.
Every evening this week we've both been
booking as pretty % the dickens after
dinner-untl last evening.
On Monday evening last, to begin with,
BY way OF Illustrating . lot Of weeks we've
passed through, said I to the wife:
by the way, I met Jim Annyday on
Saturday. end he laid he and Mrs. Amy
dayn DO digging u up some evening this
weak. 80 l guess we'd better not get into
the easy toss Tor q while to-night. ehT
OF course she agreed with me. Now,
our easy toys, worn when we're not ex-
pecting anybody. are nothing short OF
disFeputabls. Well. when one or the other
Of US sounds the warning that maybe
theye'n be visitors Of an evening Of course
We don't put on this delightfully."- skouchy
makeup Of ours.
.0h, nothing whatever like that In our
family on the e~xpectant evenings. On the
contrary / leave on my respectable worka-
day trousers. shift from q standing collar
to o comfortable but foolish turnover
COLLAR, through which I string Q black
Erenadins Windsor tie. to sort o. look ar
tistic. then I switch from workaday shoes
to real cunnin' Romeo slippers OF red
and then with Q pretty decent II
loose coat I'm tho candy, and no mistake,
and I'm a fine example Of q bogus into the
because, getting into that kind OF
receiving raiment, my deliberate attempt
10 to make folks believe that that's the fool
way l nit around the house every evening
like O large dill pickle.
sAs for the wife, when she knows or Is
she t~ttivates UP \ heap herself. leaves
The hair stand as rs rugged. rat and pulls
all, switches into q pair Of high heeled
and keeps on the slazywaxy stock
Ings. and then puts on either a pretty white
skirt and fresh shirt waist or an ornate
nose half q dozen times az che passes the
~chifonier, why. there b IL too. respectable
and engaging and counterfeitish. Just 40 /
am In my fictitious evening makeup. for
she too. Of course. strives to deceive visitors
into suppoeing that she's always Of evenings
Just a. abe 10 when she goes to great pains
that's the way We fixed up and sat
around on Monday evening last In expecta-
Of the Annydays. The Apnydsys are q
sort Of couple-though I've no
doubt that In their hours Of relaxation they
We didn't dare to take 2 chance on having
hon sail in on us and hnd us looking hike
sTuesday evening", the same. But the
.nnydays didn't show UP Tuesday evening
sither. The wife and l eat and yawned In
saoh others faces and read sort Of alb
,trActsdiy and felt sort Of stif and sewed up
Tor the punkerino old toys that permit Of
10 much loliy comfort. but Of course We
switch 50 long as there was O
nance for the Annydays to drop In.
Same goes for Wednesday and Thurs,
1retched and yet In fear that II We per-
ourselves. TO get comfortable tie
notwithstanding 70 the dope we've
lept on this thing, ns l say. ever since We
we're married-:would happen again;
Last evening after dinner ! felt dog
i i,sd :, +. y" st,o hot and sad / ID aian nfd fs.i i. g iissis
like sitting around In company clothes.
he vile. those Annyday people WON'T
ONE out on q night like this-raln thraat-
ming and all that-even II they're ever
nsan ing to O. come me ~ I'm "A S0i Ing, to , M;sh this
rsli gamble on their not coming tonight
9 any other old night
But wouldn't IL be awful II they were
o Gomez said the wife. i really Am afraid
myself to put on
oh; you've got to change into the old
.ouldn't do q particle OF good Il you were
fused up II they came and caught me
boxing like . tramp. What's the differ
noef 1t d be O giveavay anyhow. 90
ONE on, They won't be here. Let's get
which We did. The wife removed the |
line or ten pounds Of supposititious hair
hat she packs around on her lead and |
limhsd into the easy. stuff, and me similar.
We'd just got rugged that way, and were
praddled out comfortably In the sitting
DOM, mo reading the baseball junk and tho
life pulling ou ON best seller. whom
But you know the rect. Yes, Il waa the
nnydays. togged TO within an inch Of their
YES. The maid had gone, Of course, and |
had TO answer the bell. My wife hadn't
me 70 make her escape to her room to tidy |
before tho visitors were In the apartment. |
there we were, the pair Of US fairly
Rught!
We tried to square II, Of eouyss, with Q lot
I cheap witticisms and such hke. but nix, |
idnt 60. The Annydays prstspded to
Ike 1t as q fine joke, the horrible way we
,oked, and Just laughed and laughed about
!. and made az n TO let us down easily
y saying that they themselves often made
comfortable q evenings the
.Ipe way-which was no doubt true: but
the same I'll bet q hat they won't away
on what q pair OF flights We
and all like that.
Never knew this to fail, as I say. And
there really 10 any such q thing n luck.
by: J SoSdsr yhy we doa't Ct An occs-