New-York tribune., 1911-11-05

The maid who came 10 ner hhstlesS d'
o'clock In the morning was almost hys-
terical.
;, "Oh madame" she cried. I'm afraid
! Miss Brown has been carried off. Her
room is Just as I made it up yesterday
and she is nowhere to be found
why. didn't you attend Miss Brown last
night. Sarah. as gave orders?'
Yes. madame I was waiting IN her
room when she came up, but she sent me
out. saying she did not like 10 he watched.
| thought perhaps she has made away
with herself
They searched the house and then the
grounds. but the elderly aunt was nowhere
10 be found It was not until O'Clock
that their fears were quieted by the sight
of the little old visitor strolling into the
breakfast room. She had risen at 6. made
| her bed. busted her room and pranced out
by herself to explore the neghborhood.
All she had to say for herself was: "Oh.
| always make my own bed when l visit,
for the servants have enough to do with
| out bothering about me-"
Such A guest as this is always trial to
| the woman with a well trained staff Of
| servants. All the little things she does
surreptitiously. with the idea of being use
full. only serve TO disarrange the routine of
the household and to spread gossip RAM
pant below stairs and in the neighoors
kitchens woman who has had much
experience I'm entertaining elderly relatives
who are obsessed with this notion-that
they must not he a trouble-says that When
a visitor arrives whose whims are un-
known TO the maids SHE calls them to her
: and tells them that Miss Brown IS eccen-
tric. but very wealthy. and they must not
he surprised at some of her ways. Ihe
aueerer the guest the more liberal the tip
| the hostess advances from her own pocket
to the servants. in order to keep up the
| fiction about wealth, for servants. she
save will take any amount Of abuse or
oueerness from any one they think rlch.
n is curious. considering the number OF
! houses that are built. how seldom any one
achieves his or her ideal home. Whether
IL Is because Of lack of money 10 carry
out ones desires. or the failure OF the
! architect to understand or the fact that
an ideal never seems the same when II is
bodied forth certainly a home when built
is rarely the home one has dreamed OF.
81 MANNED for ten years" said a woman
( who has a house of her own now after
living i'm rented ones all her life. now
would have a bow window in my bedroom
"a how window i'm which I could sit and
! look out upon the tops of trees. Ana when
nv house was built by some strange
| oversight. that bow window was left out
I didn't watch the architects closely
enough Well" she concluded philosoph-
icaIly. II had the pleasure for ten years
Of planning that bow window and sitting
in it i'm Imagination, anyhow
If our own houses are unsatisfactory
other peoples are more so. Did anybody
ever visit an acquaintance without won
dering why on earth that acquaintance
front stoop and staircase and dining room
are lust the shape and size and style they
are?
Nowadays not only srown-ups have
views on these subjects: even the chll-
dren have them. and-blessed privilege Of
childhood they express them. Just
few days ago an eight-year-old girl was
being taken through a nearly completed
country house along with her aunt. When
they reached the pantry little MISS Amer
lea tilted her small nose
This pantry is too squeeZy," she OBJ
served Il shall have a larger pantry in
my house" The kitchen also didn't meet
with her approval.
NV she said "They must expect TO
have always a small family. TO put In only
a six-hole range
Auntie agreed in her heart, Tut pretend
ed not TO hear Children are dreadfully
frank. and even an acquiescent look might
have led to the awful consequence Of little
Miss Americas some day saying TO the
owner Of that house:
Il think your pantry's too small, and
auntie things so. too"
The chances are that when Miss Amer
lea grows up and has a home il won't suit
her. That is life. But it does seem as II
we might build houses that please u.s.
even IL our neighbors won't consider our
preferences.
.'No. I'm not afraid that tea Will make
me nervous" said the girl at the AFTER
noon reception, rs she lifted her egg shell
cum. Il am nervous-almost every one Is
nowadays. except the girls who so In for
rude health; but IL isn't tea that makes
me 50. After being in England and seeing
how people fairly swim In tea there or Az
least their stomachs swim in IT, can
regard the beverage as otherwise thah
harmless
over there they begin the day win tea
and end with tea, and have tea IN Det"eeh'
Al o'clock in the morning tea comes 10
ones bed on q nice little tray. Al IL IL 10