Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-15
zss u.ssss.s NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TROUBLES OF HOSTESS
BY ELIZABETH COMMERCIALS.


''Oh. good .uor1lioc," soid thc dis
! trGCted looking woman WHO WIS ST
ting before mahogany writing fosk
heapeG with torn note paper and 9th
or evidences og mental confusion
No. Tn not busy-at least. Il will
40 ne EcOd 10 got bric' rest say
hriei, because i'vO got 10 get baca 20
my work and fuish II TO-DAY so that
! can send out the Invitations. Why.
I'm giving dinner party! Those
torn mp things are tho party. Pm sc
ing to have dClcu people q: Q t!mr
and pay OF my social eebts, and
know Il sounds perfectly simple until
yOu heGin - consider the ComClioa-
tons. have th1~m0st intense fellow
sympathy nov for the Icar'Uh0 lnaEas
out the grand open Fciacuie-hn
must have mighty brain 20 get his
operas so shufieC th3t there GTcnt
any duplicates. ana everybody is sat
tsned If he can do that with a lot
OF muscle ana nervous tanOrS and 90
pranos it seems to me that / sh0l!i
be able to accomplish the sam" ~
suits with O batch o. perfectly ofdi-
nary persona without artistic tclnpera-
merts to hamper them.
y got my Gr5t list Of a dozen made
, cut In short order end then began 10
consider it, What DO you GvTpose
had done? why. had asked tie Bon
ninCs and Tire Sirnrsona. when every
T body kncv-s that the women Of those
: two families tu.n purple = sight u
each ether ard refuse a. speak. Two
forgotten the original row, rlt know
Mr5. Renniag would be quite caD2h'e
of getting Up from the table and walk
Ing away If she found MS Simpson
70 across from her and sire would believe
! that had done il CT purpose and
would hate ne ever after. SO | shift
e ed the Simpsons to my second dozen
, Then after staring some time at ny.
Y Darwin's name because y reminded
ne of something, ! remembered what
= IL Was his name reminded nc Of, and
J.. cold cEills shot over re. Mr.. Darwin
. Is the man who accused Mr.. BenninG
of bribery si1 years age ard. though
: Mr. Bcnning proved mis- innocence, u
q still would be ruinous TO his digestion
IL Mr. Darwin should sit at the came
table. So hastily prt Mt. Darwin ca
: the second list.
That 10 10 say. cot his name naif
I. written before I recalled that his dc
n ceased wife vas cousin of Mrs.
& SIMPSONS and had been w.ilod ali the
II family money that Mrs. Simpson nGc
counted on getting. end BOW that Oar
win has inherited his wife's fortune
Mrs Simpson would just as soon 81
next O Ola monster as next 10 Mr.
/ Darwin. He went on the third HIST.
= Il wns just coEgratuiating myself
=; that the pretty Lake girl would lens
b-aauty to the affair when | remeIn
u bered that she had been engaged L
TO the son of the Philpotts and that Mrs
Ph,lpotts' medd,ing had broken OF
the Enhancement, and | didn't want tn
p Lake girl shifting and Mrs. Philpott
80 glaring all evening. so ! shifted IN
Lake Girl to list No. 2. Then recaiie'
that she had seemed to enjoy tJkin
to Mr.. Darwin at recent card party
30 | moved her on list No. 3.
by this time I had settled down {
work IN earnest. ] crossed Of III
u Joneses because Mr.. Jones Is frigh
I'd when he gets started talking politics
II and I simply won't have a Dime
snoiIed by the men all saving the al
u and not noticing what triumphs N
I cool, has achieved You could feed
70 man eawdust IN tomato sauce whe
he ia talking politics and he'd neve
w know the difference. 1 substituted tn
II. Cranes ard tho Garlalds, and ever
i'll human being knows that MI. Garian
once knocked Mr.. Crane down IN
w row over q golf game, and now
e. either OF them wSks down the stree
where the other lives the latter sent
out a servant to sprinkle the wa
Z with formaldehyde and chloride
! lime. So moved on the Garlan'
: and wrote down the Browns"
INV goodness" exclaimed the call
: in horror. Didn't you know"
yes" YEARLY admitted the wornt
at the desk. "Of course, did. b
! my mind was growing confused.
: suppose no one past eighteen Is like
to forget that Mrs. Crane said q
7 cook, who had once worked for Il
) Browns, said that the Browns We
: 30 stingy they never had anything
! eat unless they had company and s.
2 left because she was slowly starvi
! 10 death. / was there when NJ
: Brown told Mrs. Crane what 6
: thought of her.
The Boldens seemed harmless IN
I recollected that the Grlswolds We
on the list, too, and Mrs. Griswold d
! been so mad about Mrs. Bolden's
: tending the charity ball In gown
: exact duplicate Of one Mrs. Grisw'
: had brought from Europe that
! hasn't spoken TO her since. Besid
Mr.. Griswold was elected president
a club that Mr. Bolden wanted to
7 president OF, and IN consequence
considered Mr.. Griswold scound
of the deepest dye. That's as far
- had got in planning pleasant III
party when you came in. What wc
. you suggest"
who, me-" asked her caller. wv
I'm naturally daring-Fd ask
whole bunch of scrappers at once, ,
then sic them on each other!"-t