The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-19
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

The lady-who- always-knows-s some
how stopped in at our house this after
noon on her way back from the sta
ton
The lady-who-always- knows some
how cannot be on the sunny side of
forty, but she is one of those wonder
full grown-ups who have not lost the
key to young peoples friendships.
She is the dearly treasured friend of
some half dozen delightful young
girls, and she is continually entertain
ing one or the other of them under
her hospitable roof. Yesterday she
had just been down to the station to
see off one of her prime favorites
after a holiday visit. and was sadly
anticipating how lonely she was going
to be.
There is one thing I particularly
enjoy about that girls visits she OBJ
there are no loose ends to them"
Maybe you will require that trans
lated.
I did
"Why, I mean this" explained the
lady who always-kno omehow,
when she goes home she takes all
her belongings with her. Every one.
She doesn't get home and then write
me by the next mail to tell me what
a delightful visit she had-and-and
send along her toothbrush and a half
dozen other articles which she over
looked in packing.
That's the way most OF them do
you know There's Lucia. for instance,
Lucia's a dear girl and I love to have
her come, but oh, I hate to have her
go. And not only because I miss her,
either, but because I don't miss her
belongings. 1 don't think I'd MIND
quite so much if she didn't select the
most un-do-upables to leave. You
know how I hate to do up bundles.
Anything but a perfectly plain. square
package looks like a problem in quad
ratics to me, and last time she was
here Lucia left an umbrella, a tooth
brush and a hand mirror. I thought
I should have to send for a packer.
"Of course they always say to send
the things G. o. D. or let them know
what it costs-but they don't seem
to realize that the trouble is anything.
They seem to take 1t as a matter OF
course that you should leave whatever
you are doing, hunt up thir belong
ings do them up, and travel down
TO the postoffice or expressman's with
them.
seems to me I'd insist on her punish
ing herself for the carelessness OF
leaving things by simply doing with
out anything she left behind until she
could get it herself
''It is all quite preventahle careless
ness. YOU know. It's simply because
they know they have some one they
can call upon to pick up after them
that they don't really try to pick up
after themselves
III had a grand proof of this when
! Amy went abroad. Amy is quite as
bad as Lucia, except that she doesn't
always select such awkward articles to
leave Well, I was perfectly naE>e she
would leave a trail of her belongings
all over Europe and I asked her about
| If when she got back and what do
YOU think she said? oh, no, I didn't
leave but two or three little things In
all my travels You see I knew | alb
solutely couldn't get them if 1 did
Wasn't that naive?
"And doesn't it show what sheer
unnecessary carelessness it all is?
! The ady-who-always- know some
| how is a good Judge of girls.
| So it seems to me her warmth on
this subject is worth noticing as a
hint of the hostess feelings for the
| girl who goes a-visiting.