Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-02-21


or would he tell me to see mother
or volunteer TO be my brother:
Last night / took Jack unawares
And kissed him. We were On the stairs
of course he struggled and was fused
Because his nice mustache was mussed
But in bis roguish eye the while
saw the portent of a smile
The pardon of the FabbeF bold
Before the booty had grown cold.
He always gladly wears my flowers.
And lets me call and stay for hours,
And when, at last rise to go
He'll say, why do You hurry So?'
And every day / think I'll speak
But put it OF from week TO week
And watch his lips, and eyes and nose
And wonder II | dare propose. Judge.
Dinners Late, Guests Early.
I'm not going to invite that man to
dinner again" said the hostess as she
turned from the table on which her tele-
phone stood. Il have just asked him
for two weeks from Saturday night. Yet
he answered Immediately that he had
nothing in that evening and would be de-
lighted to accept. He didn't even look
in his book, but answered right away
that he would come. There can't be
many people asking him about this sea
son.
That's Just like ycu," answered her
down town. The last time yen taym-
planned about one of your guests It was
to make an awful row because he had
kept you waiting three days for an an
swer as to whether he would come to
dinner.
The wife was not abashed by this
proof of inconsistency.
"Oh, he always keeps people waiting
like that whether or not he's invited else
where" she said. That's q habit of
his"
The dinner guests promptness in an
swering is often important to hostess
who cannot make up her party until she
knows which of the invited are going to
accept This is consequence of bridge
playing.
Dinners are almost the only entertain
mants that are not now got UP on very
short notice. Musicales which NAV be
heard by a hundred guests, even cotil-
Ions and receptions are organized on the
spur OF the moment with only few
days Of grace to the guests. But it is not
possible for hostess to collect for din
ner the friends she wants without ask
ing them long in advance. The notice
allowed for formal dinners in New York
is not less than two weeks and is often
more. Such a dinner means at least
twelve or fourteen persons and does not
begin until eight at the earliest. The
most formal dinners now begin at eight
or half past eight.
To be invited to dinner is still the most
marked compliment that a hostess can
show guest, and in spite of the lack of
ceremony that has come to be character
istic of New York social life there IS
still a certain formaiity about a dinner.
1t is one of the few functions at which
men still hesitate to be late and after
which they are careful to call unless
they expect or want to be dropped
Men trouble themselves very little now
about calling, and few ever take the
trouble to leave a card after a very large
dance or tea. There would be very lit
tie social chance, however, for the man
who went to dinner and failed to call
afterward
The fact that the dinner hour has
grown so much later has served to make
guests more prompt. The man or the
woman who is more than a quarter of an
hour late at dinner must be very rich or
very delightful or very powerful if he
or she is asked there again. Ten min
utes may be tolerated, but no more.
1t has come within the experience Of
nearly every man and woman who goes
to dinners in New York to have to wait
a long time. One famous procrastinatoY
IN New York society has the record of
having kept table waiting for three
quarters of an hour. That happened
only because the hostess was very ami
able, was in fact the only person who
kept her temper and did not receive the
late arrival with very scant courtesy.
Dinner makes the late arrival so much
more conspicuous that women who en-
JOY the extra attention that a late ar
rival creates are often tempted to in
dulge in it.-New York Sun.
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For Childish Offenses.
That vexed and unpleasant question,
The punishment of children, is the sub
lect of an interesting article contributed
to Charities" by r. r. Reeder, super
intendent of the New York Orphan asy-
lum: Hastings-on-the-H Hudson Mr.. Reed
er hnds money as powerful an influence
IN the lives of children as it commonly
Is in the lives of adults.
Money is certainly as rational a me-
dunn with which to transmit moral re-
sponsibility as any other external pen
atty may be-" says the article. st gives
having something done to him. 1t lays
upon the child the responsibility for his
own deed. In earning money to pay the
me he Furnishes himself" In the or
p.nanage they keep the fines on record
nh they are paid off. 1t may be for
many weeks or months, but the fact
That there is such a charge to be met
child
An interest in money has also been
round to obviate the necessity for pun
lshment by keeping the children busy
and happy in earning it. There are
thousand and one odd tasks which the
ooys about the orphanage are constantly
SEEKING an opportunity to perform tor
During the vacation" says Mr.. Reed
er, Il can scarcely walk across the
grounds without from one to half a doz
en- boys striking me for a job. 1t is the
cry of surplus energy for profitable out
let. Not TO provide for it means its es-
cape in some forbidden channel 1t keeps
one busy finding occupation for 200 chill
dren, but it is a pleasanter task than
deyising methods of punishment"
Next to occupation and money as
means of moral training Mr.. Reeder
places trust. 'gThe less you trust chill
dren the less worthy of trust do they
grow he says. "Distrust and lack OF
confidence beget responsibility and de-
Lmquency. 1t is better 10 trust and be
deceived than not to trust at all. The
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