The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-22
WEARING OUT WELCOME.
"Give all to love, Obey thy heart, Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit and the muse NOthinpr refuSe's

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 Don't YOU know dozens of women who persist in dropping in upon you at the time you are busiest? It isn't every woman who can afford to lead an ideal life, and all women wouldn if they could.
 The woman who does her own work and retains her position socially in a community is the worst sufferer from unwelcome guests. It is with feel ing akin \to terror that she hears her front door bell ring when she is in Monday morning. It's no easy matter to hustle out of suds-bespattered work ing garb into another dress. It is sure to be the wealthy woman living around the corner, who has come in her automobile. fJust dropped in for a, moment to see how you liked the oyster supper at the church., she tells the Hurried mistress of the cottage. F Of course it is a desperately uncom- fortabIe moment when the clothes boil over. or the skillet on the back of the stove burns dry. She excuses herself thing or another during the next. hour, <but the visitor seems to be blissfully unconscious that x trespaSSing on her friends time and patience.
 The second interruption is by the grocer's boy with the days supplies.
 
 take the coming weeks order and set tie last weeks account. A load of coal comes and she must show the driver where it must be placed in the cellar. A tinsmith her husband has sent up to fix the worn out leader in the roof puts in his appearance to add to the ,housewife's distraction.
 After an hour of chatting piecemeal between duties, her caller arises, with the remark: sI see you are dread fully busy today, dear. I'll drop in tomorrow and tell you all about the fair we must give to aid the poor, suf- fering, heather Chinese somewhere in the other part of the world-I don't know just where. but they're needing it all the same.'' e-f
 The wealthy neighbor waves her goodbye, steps into her limousine and floats away. The housewife, with dire misgivings, fees in terror to the kit chen to find tha a hole has been burned in husbands shirt, which was in the bottom of the boiler, and also that her own hand embroidered pett1- coat is ruined beyond repair. The fire home from school for his lunch at any moment and nothing is ready. It's a day of trying ordeaIs.
 Tuesday comes and in the midst of ironing the shirt which escaped dam age-and hubby is a veritable crank ONSI t40 Way nl5 laundry IS turned out-t1le same woman puts in her ap- pearance again. This time the shirt is ruined so far as the ironing went. The cake in the oven burned black. The cat and the parrot, Irnbued with the spirit of the times, are engaged in a fierce battle. In her hurry, she had forgotten to take the precaution of separating them.< yen then her wis., itor might not have taken the hint that the working house wife's time was valuable had not Polly shrieked out sharply, over the din: Has that wo- man gone yet? Put her out! Where's her hat?''
 The visitor whose senses were the I most obtuse could not fail to realize that parrot had at times more sense seemingly than humans. With nasty apology, she takes her departure promising to call later in the week when her friend will be at leisure No matter how much one woman may like, another woman and appre- eiate her society, callers should take into consideration whether they are paying their visit at a proper time ol mot. More women suffer from the un. intentional folly of this kind of z friend than from any other form O.
 annoyance.
 The most courteous way out of it i.
 to send the friends whose acouaint. lance they particularly wish to keep LII
 their card on which is engraved O.
 written t'At home (such or such al evening" from 7:20 until 10.'' Wome1 lWho have nothing to do but follow tn,
 beck of pleasure, amusing themselves
 passing time pleasantly at another,
 expenses should put themselves in i'm
 agination in that other wornaf's plac
 for one busy workday It would l,
 such a lesson they would not again b
 guilty of wearing out their welcome
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