The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-08
11HEY were talking about personal

ONHEY were taking aOoup pSlsoiiaA-
 ity-a little coterie of women-and
 O the conversation drifted and not unuaturally since it was hen party . no men being present to personality in the masculine sex, and how it manifests itself in different ways and under differ ent circumstances.
 One man especially was cited as most desirable and charming guest at party because he always made himself agree able to everybody and somehow managed always to touch upon happy subjects and make everybody have good time; his very presence suggested pleasant and agreeable evening, and he always added to any gathering by his kindness and consideration of his hostess and all her guests
 IF distinct contrast was another man who was very undesirable as a guest be- cause when he accepts invitations and arrives at place he invariably gets OFT to himself and looks like lost sheep and so absolutely uninterested and un- interesting that nobody ever wants to be near him.
 And then one woman remarked very casually that the most difficult role that any man could play in the social game was that of escort; not as escort to the theatre to concert, or to lec- ture but to reception, a dance or a dinner party.
 T know one man, she said, and all you women know him, too who is the most delightful escort in the world; and I've endeavored many times to analyze just wherein his great charm as an es- cort lies; l knew, of course, that he is the sort of man who always says and does the right thing at the right time, but that alone wouldn't qualify him as the ideal escort, and so l just sat down and dissected him carefully in my own mind the other day and tried to see for myself just what his assets are"
 "He always seems to do the obviously correct thing, instinctively," she went on to say, and I have never stepped outside my front door with him without feeling that l was going to have one of the happiest evenings of my life. Now, he isn't in love with me at all; he doesn't even especially care for me-not in that line, any way, but he is just a good friend and often invites me to go out with him. In the first place, ier me say, that he doesn't seem to be try ing to do what he's doing; 1t just comes natural to him; he makes every woman feel, not by anything he says. but by his actions, that she is the only woman in the world for that evening at leasD. He is engagingly natural and free from any assumption of directing things as it were; but while with him a woman whom he is escortng just seems to enjoy a pleasant sense of being his first consid- era tion. He never allows her to expe- rience that feeling of having no escort; as so many men do; of being left alone while he trails off after other people and doesn't care whether she is looked after or not. You know the type of man who takes a girl to a party, dumps her down and almost as good as says to her: ''Now, I've brought you here-shuffle for yourself" I don't mean to reflect on men who do this sort of thing; I suppose it's just their way; but I do mean to say that the man of the other type cer- tainly makes much better escorts and make woman feel far more comfort able"
 'Do you like a man never to leave