The Washington herald., 1908-05-10

eonveniences, is apt TO be kept waiting
longer than she was hundred years ago,
when formal replies had to be sent by
special mounted messengers or stage
coach. Nor are the guests as punctilious
in the treatment of their entertainers as
they were formerly. Mrs Blank is so
kind to all you young people when you
visit her that you must be very grateful
and appreciative of her hospitality" said
belle of the SOS to her granduieee
when the latter received an invitation 10
visit Mrs Blank in Bar Harbor next sum
mer Il don't see why" replied Miss
Flippant. Mrs. Blank only invites US
because she Is fond Of young people and
because we give her a good time. For
my part. l think the shoe is on the other
foot, and that IL is she who should be
grateful and apprecative. If I gushed
about her she would think I was a toady,
and, heaven knows. don't have to be
that
There are plenty OF toadies, unhappiy,
young men and young women, who would
be called Adventures and adventuresses
If il we're not for their youth and their
respectable families But people of this
ilk always oyeTreach themselves. An
amiable hostess may take kindly 10 fiat
terry and affected admiration for a while,
but there is sure 10 come a time when
/ the most stupid woman sees through the
Vaccinations Of sycOphants. l recall the
case OF a young woman from California
who was the house guest one winter of
one or the richest women on the Pacific
slope, who maintained a home here In
Washington one In Paris, and one In the
Isle OF Wight-a person who had the
means and disposition to distribute pleas
ure wherever she went with a lavish
hand She had taken the greatest fancy
20 her little guest, and was really trying
TO bring about a marriage between her
and her only son. who is to-day one OF
the richest and most conspicuous men In
the world.
The young woman had everything 10
gain and nothing to lose by being as 10y
ally devoted to her hostess as she pre-
tended to be. for the latter had heaped
her with favOTs; but she was q born ad-
ventures and cut up all kinds Of capers
behind her friends back She would
mimic her eecentricities, satirize her pet
fads, and. while pretending to her hostess
that she could not endure her son. was
carrying on a desperate Irritation with
him surreptitiously. But the end came
q a
enough 10 write the history Of the whole
affair TO a friend In California She drew
caricatuTes of the woman who was be-
friending her on the margin of the sheet;
/ she made Up out of whole cloth all the
/ scandalcus stories she could think Of
about her, and she did 1t we'll for she
was a talented girl with a tTeuchant pen
/ and concluded the letter by saying: IT'S
perfectly dreadful living here. have TO
/ keep my eyes turned earthward like a
Puritan and / must toe the mark twenty
/ four hours out OF the twenty-four. But
/ just wait until I get sonny; then ma can
go to tutti fruttI. for I am going to get
paid IN good hard cash for the penitential
/ life l am forced 10 endure now.
y am happy TO say the old trump does
/ not hold the purse strings Sonny'S pa
/ looked after that before he died, so we
/ can 90 where We want and do what we
want just as soon rs the knot is tied, and
we viii go and we viii do not a little"
! This letter. either fortunately OF unfor-
tunately. fell into the hands OF a friend
/ Of 'sOnny's" mamma, who Immediately
/ dispatched It TO that lazy in Washing
/ ton. who soon after the receipt Of il
/ packed her little protege Of. bag and
/ baggage, TO the glorious West. As for
sonny, he sympathized entirely with
mamma and his filtration with their little
! guest came to an end with her departure.
/ The whole story is too vulgar to be be
lieveble, and happily there are not mary
such: but this one is true and happened
/ exactly as 1t is set down here.