The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-06

visit, but you have natural aversion to standing while you are being paid a call. You mentally measure the length Of the story, from the part of it you've heard, and figure out that it will end by the time you work her gradually to the street door. But when she gets to the door the chances are that she will remember something with her foot even over the portal that she hadn't thought of before, and she fingers with the sun beafning down a deadly heat, and you scorching and miserable and tired and worn out"
 That's my idea of a neuralgia, head ache-y friend" the woman declared. T have three like that and they are the very ones who call me up so solicitlously over the phone every morning to know how am feeling"
 'T recall that one of them asked me at least 20 times last winter how I contract ed neuralgia the woman went on, and I know she would have dropped dead if had told her that took 1t the Saturday that l stood on the front steps with her after she had paid me a morning visit of three hours and listened the awful piece of gossip that she told me about one of her neighbors, when she might have told 1t from the start, when we were sitting in the library by nice warm fire.'
 "One of the pictures that I've treasured for years," the woman recalled, against a moment of depression, when l need something to cheer he up, Is an illus trated joke from a humorous weekly. The artist drew front door. Against the jam of the door leaned the weary hostess, cheered up momentariy, with the hope that the tlresome caller on the step was at last about to depart. Sud- denly a reproachfu expression came over the face of the caller-'
 My dear, she gasps, T forgot l haven't told you about my trip to Cali fornla yet
 Now" said my informant 'if you've ever had friend to tell you about her trip to California, while you leaned against the door facing, you can under stand what ghastly half hour the hos tess in this case spent. If you have to tell a friend about your trip abroad or to California, DO select comfortable place when you start to telling her. She's at least entitled to that consideration"
 
 Israel Zangwell, in one of his brilliant stories, makes his hero say that when he marrles he intends to select a girl for only one qualification:
 ''She needn't be pretty he remarks ''or witty or rich; but she MUST know when to make me go home. As 1t is, I So tdilill6f dii ilHd btIplb tAiio8 u that I'm hypnotlzed by the crowd-I can't move. l know I ought to be going home, but I am powerless to start. Now, when I marry I'm going to marry a girl who will know when it's time for us to start home and who will see to 1t that once we've started we GO home."
 The story of the girl grown hysterieal trying to entertain a "bore' hour after hour suggests itself.
 The girl had a great many things to do, and nobody came to her rescue.
 Finally the man suggested that he thought it must be time for him to be going.
 But he made DO move to go. i. Then he said it again.
 "Oh, must you stay?' the girl cried hysterically. Cant you go?"
 Lots of people evidently don't seem to want to go.
 It's bad enough to stay on and on, after you've finished paying visit but don't finger on a door step this sweltering weather.
 You've no right, and you know you haven't, to be giving headaches even to your dearest and best friendsl
 
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