New-York tribune., 1910-06-19

Il is hard 10 believe that dogs and cats
may be pampered to such degree mat
zEey become as fastidious about their food
as some human beings but such is the case
in many households. The servants, if fond
of their dumb charges, will give way to
ell these whirns, and their charges are not
so dumb after all, for by growls or howls
they soon make known their preferences
regarding the food set before them, and
only starvation win make them eat a
thing not to their fancy. In one household
where there are two cats and q dog the
cook gives more anxious thought 10 their
diet than TO that Of their owners. The dog
disl;kes chicken or game, so has to be fed
beef of a tender cut or calf's heart and
iiver, with buttered toast broken in small
pieces. The cats have tired Of everything
but bluefish and Hamburg steak and refuse
70 touch milk, mewing vigorously for
beef juice. The butchers bill for these
ehree pets averages SIS a month, and all of
them are grossly fat When the cook is
demonstrated with she responds: But they
VIII not eat other things and they are
valuable. SO they should be tempted 10 eat
and live"
A person who fails TO write bread and
butter letters soon becomes well known and
the reputation IS almost sure TO cost him or
her many a delightful invitation, for the
one thing the woman who gives house par
fies IS sensitive about is the success of
each event and proof Of such success is
some expression Of gratitude from those
who have been of the party. When one
considers that politeness in such cases costs
only little time and a two-cent stamp and
that the lack Of it may cost the negligent
one days Of pleasure which no money can
buy, but for which one must be specially
selected, IL is strange that people are not
a little more punctilious about the prompt
writing OF these little notes.
'It IS singular said the woman Of the
old regime, how the old order changeth.
Even ten years ago any man or woman
who criticised hostess at the home where
her hospitality was actually being enjoyed
would have met with swift reproof from
some other guest, and such behavior might
even have barred the guilty one from good
society. Certainly he or she would not have
received another invitation from the hostess
criticised But today il is an everyday eX-
perience 10 hear guests audbly picking
their hostess TO pieces. So outspoken are
they, indeed, that their remarks are not
infreouently overheard by the person most
interested a woman WHO recently gave Il
large bridge with charming prizes which
aere Of neither silver nor gold. which she
could have well afforded. overheard a win
ner say as she uncovered her present: rs
fhis alI2 ] thought at least Il would be
worth sl5 and it never cost more than half
that Another. a bridge hostess, who had
asked some nor-players 10 tea. heard bit
ter complaints because these outsiders
had spoiled fhe discussion OF the game
the post-l.lortem. One OF these hostesses
saw the humorous side only of the remarks
that came 10 her ears. but the other was
rescntfuI. taking The view that such guests
were poor friends and bad neighbors. Yet
gle probably viii not retaliate by excluding
Shcm from her parties hereafter.
orIv ag7 Ht.le years ago a small French
church was built In Pine street, New York,
called T,u Saint Esprit, and there the
Huguenot maidens from Breuckelen and
staaten Island came in frail canoes.
Doubtless these were padded by attractive
1-o,srg men, but IN those days such cir
s.sIynstanee would call for little comment.
To-day a man who cares enough for a
young woman's society 70 go TO church
with her is a rara avis. Such q mark OF
devotion IS more than q feather in the cap
O. her 70 whom il IS shown. II outdoes the
longest willow plume IN a French chapeau.
When buying remnant = Is a wise plan
70 get one larger than is actually required,