The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1911-01-13
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Haven't you got any sense at all?''
asked the man who was hunting some
thing in the bookcase.
= I'm amazed at your stupidity" Of
fered the third man.
Young Dabbs appeared irritated.
Are you all crazy7" he inquired. II
merely said l was going to pay my
dinner call at the Buckmans'. Why
this row."
Don't you see." said the man on
the settee. patiently. that If you pay
your call they'll ask you again?"
Don't you know" asked the man at
the bookcase, that the easiest way to
escape social stunts is to be brutally
rude?"
Still. sometimes thaV call rudeness
engaging ecoentricity,s said the third
man, pessimistically. Yet in the long
run 1t helps some"
1T can't possibly be-" went on the
man on the settee, who had been re-
garding the perplexed face Of young
Dabbs, that you enjoy the society
act? | know you are young, Dabbs.
but you aren't young enough for that!
You must be twenty-seven and there
fore old enough to know better! In
the kindness of your heart you say:
Here are these good people going to
all sorts of trouble getting up dinners
and card parties and dances and teas
and the least l can do as perfect
gentleman is to immediate myself on
the altar of friendship and accept
their invitation Thus you go on en-
couraging them In the mistaken ideas
and piling up trouble for yourself and
everybody else instead Of having the
courage Of your convictions and throw
ing their cards into your waste basket!
They'd thank you in the end! You
don't suppose people enjoy giving par
ties, do your"
Il never suppose anything about
it, said young Dabbs. They enter
tain their friends because they want
| to-"
The man at the bookcase groaned
and, sitting down, regarded young
Dabbs seriously.
my boy" he said you are even
younger than l thought! Do you sup
pose for a minute that old Buchanan
wouldn't infinitely have preferred hunt
ing out his pipe and the last maya
zine and launching up IN an easy chail
in the den by himself for the evening
to climbing into a spike-tail coat ant
choky collar and a necktie thai
wouldn't tie and listening to Mrs. Git
ties relate for the fifteenth time how
her parrot accidentally hanged itself
| Do you, in your widest dreams, thinl
Mrs. Buchanan was entranced will
spending the day telephoning caterer
and arguing with a cook who threat
ened to leave at the eleventh hour an(
spoil everything? Don't you suppose
when the last one OF you disappea
down the front steps she said: 'Thanl
goodness, that's over|"
For ten years." put in the thirt
man, I've obediently trailed around t
parties with my wife and only toda.
have l tasted the sweets of rebellion
There was a card party tonight AM
this morning I firmly said I wouldn'
go! told Isabel she could take m.
nephew In my place. He's young ant
an easy mark He's having a goo'
time and so am l and why under ere
alton | haven't done 1t before l don
know"
II knew a man once" said the maj
on the settee, who was so gruff AM
impolite and inconsiderate that pee
pie really quit asking him to places
1t sounds too good to be true, but IT.
so. He led the most peaceful, ur
annoyed life and never had to bottle
thinking up excuses! 1t does seen
shame that Dabbs here should lie
himself sink In so deep, because whel
he does come out of his trance hel
have the dickens OF a time breaking
away! Actually paying a dinner call
Lunacy!"
"Oh, you fellows make me tired!
said Dabbs. You like to go to place
as we'll as the next one!"
Nonsense" they told him en-
phatically.
We'll. anyhow I suppose you'll a
go to the BEETLES supper and theate
party next week." Dabbs insisted.
1.-The Bettles?" asked the man at tn
bookcase, Strengthening up. "Whs
night is it? l hadn't heard. Funn
they'd leave me QUIT"
Queer | hadn't heard of It," con
planned the man on the settee.
wouldn't have thought 1t of Bettles,"
: Funny they forgot mel" said tn
third man. They never did 1t b.
fore! When did you get an invitation
Dabbs?"
, Young Dabbs grinned. Il didn't &c
one" he replied. "They aren't givin
any party. | just wanted to see
you fellows meant what you said abo,
hating social stunts. And now I'll e