Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-21
LONDON SOCIETY TURNS NIGGARDLY Ask and Be Asked" Is Now Motto of HostesseS
 in Big Town. USING HOTELS OFTEN It Is Seldom Now That Large Affairs Are Given in Private Homes Wedding Receptions Cease to
 Be Private.
USING HOTELS OFTEN
(By Herbert Temple.0


 London, June 20.-London social practices are constantly changing these years There are as many new turns in year now as in two decades in the good old days of Queen Vic- toria-may they never return. ] am somewhat amused by ball etiquette tor rather practice) of today.
 Hostesses this year don't ask any body to Lails except those who give balls. Ask and be asked" is the motto.
 And so you ask everyone who has ever asked you. As one of the dis agreeable results charming girls lan- guisn through season without a single dance invitation that amounts to anything-unless they are closely related to dance hostesses. Those who are "in the swim" are asked and asked until they are heartily tired of balldom.
 Perhaps expense influences ball practice little. e Each invitation nowadays represents considerable outlay. Then, too, you are likely to have more guests than you bargain for, and tto be surprised when your reckoning comes in from the hotel company.
 For instance, my wife invites 300 guests. 400 succeed in getting past the hotel official stationed in the hall to check the number and take the cards.
 The big ball in a private house is different. But very few big affairs are given except in hotels. The large hotel is becoming more and more in fashion for receptions after smart weddings, too.
 There is so little sentiment or priv acy about the modern marriage feast that the bride of today seems not to have the slightest objection to push ing her way across the crimson car pet outside huge hotel in Knights bridge or Piccadilly and up the steps of a lounge possibly crowded with strangers, and holding her reception in all the banality of an hotel saloon. There is. of course, little individu- ality about such weddings. At these functions, the presents are shown in a smaller room, and the usual we'd ding detectives have a wearing time, since there is always chance Of light-fingered strangers strolling in. At a recent reception, a late-com- CT who had not been to the church arrived at one of the big hotels and elbowed his way through crowds and up the congested staircase till he found himself under huge bridal "bel!' of white flowers and shaking hands with totally unknown bride. | He had come to the wrong hotel we'd ding!
 Calls at 6 Cents Per, The government has just shown really some enterprise in instituting system whereby for payment ot 6 cents you will be called at any hour of the day or night by the op- orator on the local exchange.
 Thus an American visitor desiring to make doubly sure that he will be called in time for the continental train, can notify the supervisor of the exchange serving the hotel in which he is located that he wants to be called, say, at 7:30 in the morning The request is docketed by the super visor and given to the operator, who rings your bell at the appointed time and keeps ringing it until you an SWer.
 Of course the system has it's dis advantages. If you have no bedside telephone and only want to be re- minded to take your medicine every two hours, it would be rather discon- certng to have to walk down three flights of stairs in the dark every time to stop the bell ringing in the hall so that you could go to sleep again. But that can be obviated by havnig an extension wire fitted to your instrument, so that on such oc-